GitLab's Betsy Bula on How to Make Remote Work

For many companies, remote work was just a stopgap measure to address a temporary disruption to business as usual. For others, it's a way of life. 

In this episode of Get Reworked, we talk to Betsy Bula, all-remote evangelist at GitLab, about how and why her company came to embrace all remote all the time, and what others can learn from their example. GitLab has collected the lessons learned in a publicly available guide to remote work that runs to the thousands of pages. Despite that experience and documentation, it remains a work in progress.

"Even still, this has been a journey," Betsy said. "We're always iterating and making changes. Even for a company that's been long remote like GitLab, it's not a thing that always remains the same."

Highlights of the conversation include:

• Just how successful remote work has been throughout the pandemic.
• Why GitLab decided to go all remote and how they overcame objections.
• How remote work is a constantly evolving set of practices.
• Whether or not a company should hire a head of remote work.

Plus, co-hosts Siobhan Fagan and Mike Prokopeak talk with Betsy about North Carolina basketball, the legacy of Duke's Coach K and why hybrid work as an operating model is overrated. Listen in for more.

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