Advice from the CEO of an All-Remote Company

Most organizations have now accepted that the days of all their knowledge workers coming into the office full time are over. So what's next? Sid Sijbrandij, CEO and cofounder of Gitlab, thinks all-remote can be the answer. His open-source software development company took that approach from the start not because of the pandemic but because its founding team was dispersed and early employees were more productive at home. Now with more than 1,300 people spread across more than 60 countries, GitLab is said to be the world’s largest all-remote company. He shares the lessons he's learned about the best way to manage a distributed workforce.

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Advice from the CEO of an All-Remote Company

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GitLab’s Sid Sijbrandij on building a company with no offices and employees spread around the world.

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September 27, 2022

Most organizations have now accepted that the days of all their knowledge workers coming into the office full time are over. So what’s next?  Sid Sijbrandij, CEO and cofounder of Gitlab, thinks all-remote can be the answer. His open-source software development company took that approach from the start not because of the pandemic but because its founding team was dispersed and early employees were more productive at home. Now with more than 1,300 people spread across more than 60 countries, GitLab is said to be the world’s largest all-remote company. He shares the lessons he’s learned about the best way to manage a distributed workforce.

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