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Chris Herd

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22 Oct

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6,500 companies — with 11m+ aggregate employees – signed up to our waitlist in the last 6 months

The biggest opportunites this decade will be in the future of work and living space

Here’s why me and @ShaneMac are launching a rolling fund today

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🌍Market size: there are 255m desk jobs globally today. After Covid passes around 30m of them will be done remotely full-time, rising to 70m+ by 2030

A majority of these jobs will be done remotely 3 days+ a week

There will be massive 1st, 2nd, and 3rd order effects as a result

👀Our focus: remote is at the same stage mobile computing was prior to the iPhone

The infrastructure and rails that enable remote work and living to rise globally still have to be built

Our focus is on finding, supporting, and investing in these startups

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Chris Herd

@chris_herd

20 Oct

We are now 7 months into remote working

Here are a few benefits we never initially considered

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🎆 work when you want: the 9-5 is a remnant of the industrial revolution that does not work for knowledge workers

remote work lets you set your schedule and work when you are most productive

🍻 no after-work expectations: promotion decisions based on who you drink with after work are why workplaces remain homogenous

a massive problem in organizations that are not diverse, where people wonder why management all looks the same

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Chris Herd

@chris_herd

17 Oct

The 2020s will be known as the Remote Work decade

A few predictions of what is likely to emerge

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🏦Third Space: Office and Working from Home will be joined by somewhere close by that a number of people will use

Supermarkets or local bank branches should emerge as a convenient ubiquitous location option – if they are smart

⏰Asynchronous Work: Offices are instantaneous gratification distraction factories where synchronous work makes it impossible to get stuff done

Tools that enable asynchronous work are the most important thing globally remote teams need. A lot of startups will try to tackle this

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Chris Herd

@chris_herd

5 Oct

I've spoken to around 1,000 companies over the last 6 months about their plans for remote work going forward

Here are a few things I've learned

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🏢 HQ's are finished: companies will cut their commercial office space by 40-60%

The will allow every worker to work from home 2-4 days a week, and come into the office 1-2 days a week

🌍 Fully distributed: ~30% of the companies we talk to are getting rid of the office entirely and going remote-first

Companies doing this have seen their workers decentralize rapidly, leaving expensive cities to be closer to family

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Chris Herd

@chris_herd

16 Sep

Too many gatekeepers looking to bend remote work in ways that benefit them. If you're going remote and think that timezones matter, location should a multiplier for salary, and you are not becoming more diverse, accessible and inclusive as a company, you're doing it wrong

Remote work is about decentralization of opportunity. What stops it is fear and a lack of trust. Companies that don't trust their teams to work will be blindly transparent as terrible places to work remotely. Surveillance capitalism will be ripe and prevent great work

Remote rejection will be a thing. 'Remote work didn't work for us as a company' will likely hide the reasons culturally for the failure. Everything is about trust. Less trusting remote organizations will be more synchronous

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Chris Herd

@chris_herd

6 Sep

In a world awash with turmoil, I increasingly believe what we're experiencing the death of 'analog nations'

Computers have existed for decades but it's taken until now for software to eat the world. The rise of Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook show's that complete

What replaces 'analog nations'?

Are nations even still a requirement? Much of what we see today is government standing in the way of progress as technological evolution has rendered laws obsolete

Cloud Countries?

The world feels increasingly divided yet it has never been easier to connect with people who we share common interests with

Much of the vitriol we've lived through in the last 5 years comes from those trying to hold onto power. They've leveraged tech to take control & divide

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