Work from anywhere?

Update: THIS WAS 2015 AND PRE COVID…

I’ve been reading about how distributed companies are operating.  Companies with their servers running in the cloud don’t need a server room, or Office premises at all it seems.  And there’s lots of them.

• Wired article about Automatic, the company behind WordPress
• Lots of information at this clever URL WorkingRemote.ly
• Article about how Buffer do distributed working
• The Pros and Cons of Remote Work in Ops

As a worker wouldn’t you like to skip the commuting?  As an employer wouldn’t you like to hire from more than just the local area? These companies are using a combination of (largely open source) team work tools and practices/behaviours to make it work.