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Chris Herd

6 Jul, 6 tweets, 2 min read

Remote work changed my life

I missed my daughter walk, laugh, and talk for the first time due to working in an office

I was told this is normal: “just what happens when you have to put a roof over your families head”

Turns out the need to be in an office to work was a lie

I dream of a future of where you live not determining your access to opportunity

- I’m from a small city in Scotland
- never stepped foot in Silicon Valley

At no other point in history could I still live in this city and have raised $15M to build a global tech company

Offices have been great for some people and terrible for others

The data of women falling out of the workplace during covid id a horrific example of this

Remote work should lead to the most diverse, inclusive and accessible companies in history

But will it?

Remote companies will be the best place in history for:

- single parents
- carers for other people
- anyone with health conditions or
impairments that make
offices impossible

To work

Companies will benefit from the massive increase in differing perspective

Nobody really cares about the future of work

But the remote work revolution is far bigger than that

Remote isn’t about the future of work

Remote is a bridge to a higher quality of life

Remote is about the future of living

Wasting 4 years of your life over the course of your career commuting is a tax on your quality of life

We need more time for the people we care about most and doing the things that make us happiest

Remote let’s us do that

While producing the best work of our lives

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Chris Herd

@chris_herd

2 Jul

I've spoken to 10 of the biggest organizations in the world about their plans for remote work

Here’s what you need to know:

🏢 HQ’s are finished: companies will cut their commercial office space by atleast 50-70%

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: 30-50% of companies will get rid of the office entirely and go remote-first

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

Read 19 tweets

Chris Herd

@chris_herd

24 Jun

I've spoken to 2,000+ people about remote work in the last 12 months

A few predictions of what is likely to emerge before 2030

[ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍

🚜 Rural Living: People will move to smaller cities, have a lower cost of living & higher quality of life

These regions must innovate quickly to attract that wealth. Better schools, faster internet connections are a must

⏰ 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

Read 21 tweets

Chris Herd

@chris_herd

23 Jun

fear: offshoring from remote work

reality: renaissance of states, cities, towns, and places forgotten about as people left in pursuit of opportunity only available in big cities where they can now return to due to remote work

many of the people who fear this have no idea how high wages are in the places they think jobs will disappear to

and some people genuinely argue that a $10K-$50K expense of an office is going to keep jobs here? $10M-$50M per 1,000 person company

after a global pandemic that literally proved almost any job can be done remotely over 15 months of a global pandemic

Read 7 tweets

Chris Herd

@chris_herd

9 Jun

Back to the office, hybrid or fully remote?

I spoke to 1,000+ companies over the last 6 months to find out more about their plans

This is what I learned

[ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍

🏢 HQ’s are finished: companies will cut their commercial office space by 50-70%

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

Read 23 tweets

Chris Herd

@chris_herd

8 Jun

Remote work is about access to opportunity

I’m from a small city in Scotland. Never stepped foot in SF. Likely never have to

No longer an obstacle to success 🔥

I still live in that city in Scotland

At no other time in history would I be able to do what I’m doing from this location

Remote work will do this for millions of other people globally as well ❤️

I can stay closer to family and friends

My daughters can grow up near their grandparents

Remote work is the most important quality of life improvement in at least a generation

Read 4 tweets

Chris Herd

@chris_herd

8 Jun

the benefits of in-person meetings aren't going to be as big as some people remember and the time they waste getting there will lead to massive resentment

this will lead to people questioning WTF they are doing traveling 2H to and back from a meeting that is 30 minutes long

flying overnight for a 30-minute meeting? finished

some people think there will be a pullback to the norm

but that assumes both parties want this

they won't

"well that's the price we pay for collaboration"

you mean that thing that has continued remotely during a global pandemic, which everyone was forced into overnight with no processes in place to make it work?

Read 15 tweets

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