28 min
The Secrets Playbook of One of the Most Famous Remote Companies (ft. Chase Warrington, Head of Remote, Doist) Future Work
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Welcome back to the Future Work podcast. Today I’m speaking with Chase Warrington, one of the world’s leading authorities on remote work.
Chase is the Head of Remote at Doist, an async-first company that created the famous Todoist tool and has over 100 people distributed across 35 countries.
Chase is a LinkedIn Top Voice for Remote Work and has been featured by Forbes, BBC, Fast Company, the World Economic Forum, and more.
Today, we speak about what any company can learn from his fully remote company, how Doist keeps people consistently engaged online, but also, why his company is remote yet he loves getting together in person.
Here are a few lessons I picked up today:
Getting people together is a huge priority for Chase and the team. He’s a head of remote pushing for more synchronicity. They got so good at async communication that they forgot to connect on a human level.So how do they do it? Doist helps people connect through mentorship trips, where a new hire gets sent to work with their mentor face-to-face for a week, a mini-retreat where direct teams spend a week together somewhere, and Doist Connect, a company-wide retreat.Doist doesn’t see remote as a way to save costs on offices. In fact, while they had some budget cuts this year, they actually increased their investment in getting people together.If you invest in retreats, you have to consider how they connect to your core values and how people will get value out of it. Doist purposefully uses them for connection, spending 20% on work, 30% on activities, and 50% on rest and relaxation. Chase found that in the 50%, that’s where the true breakthroughs happen.Even if companies don’t go fully remote, they can learn from some best practices, like documenting everything. As Chase said, we should ask ourselves, are we designing for how we used to work or how we work today?We hope you’ll love this episode and can put these insights to good use. Subscribe on FlexOS, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube for the latest Future Work episodes.
Like reading more than listening? Find the article on our website: www.flexos.work/learn/secrets-playbook-of-famous-remote-companies-chase-warrington-head-of-remote-doist.
Welcome back to the Future Work podcast. Today I’m speaking with Chase Warrington, one of the world’s leading authorities on remote work.
Chase is the Head of Remote at Doist, an async-first company that created the famous Todoist tool and has over 100 people distributed across 35 countries.
Chase is a LinkedIn Top Voice for Remote Work and has been featured by Forbes, BBC, Fast Company, the World Economic Forum, and more.
Today, we speak about what any company can learn from his fully remote company, how Doist keeps people consistently engaged online, but also, why his company is remote yet he loves getting together in person.
Here are a few lessons I picked up today:
Getting people together is a huge priority for Chase and the team. He’s a head of remote pushing for more synchronicity. They got so good at async communication that they forgot to connect on a human level.So how do they do it? Doist helps people connect through mentorship trips, where a new hire gets sent to work with their mentor face-to-face for a week, a mini-retreat where direct teams spend a week together somewhere, and Doist Connect, a company-wide retreat.Doist doesn’t see remote as a way to save costs on offices. In fact, while they had some budget cuts this year, they actually increased their investment in getting people together.If you invest in retreats, you have to consider how they connect to your core values and how people will get value out of it. Doist purposefully uses them for connection, spending 20% on work, 30% on activities, and 50% on rest and relaxation. Chase found that in the 50%, that’s where the true breakthroughs happen.Even if companies don’t go fully remote, they can learn from some best practices, like documenting everything. As Chase said, we should ask ourselves, are we designing for how we used to work or how we work today?We hope you’ll love this episode and can put these insights to good use. Subscribe on FlexOS, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube for the latest Future Work episodes.
Like reading more than listening? Find the article on our website: www.flexos.work/learn/secrets-playbook-of-famous-remote-companies-chase-warrington-head-of-remote-doist.
28 min