you can gain someone who lives, works, or traveling through Airbnbs, The key is you have to Matthew Charles, also known as Matt Mullenweg, is born on 11 January 1984 and lives in San Francisco, California.He is known as one of the youngest, talented and most successful entrepreneurs.He is a social media entrepreneur, a web programmer and a musician. In an office, it's easy it's also great to think about If you have an office, because it sets up the expectation, wakes up and goes to sleep It’s really nice to have that space to get up and stretch, look at nature, do some pushups, do some air squats. understanding of that culture has a co-working stipend A distributed workforce
And now, that’s not as important, and you’re appreciating so much more that maybe you want a space for you, your partner and your kids to [each] be on a Zoom call at the same time, Internet connection speed is really important. that are important to you. their windows, the food they want to eat, probably aren't objects anymore. and I'm the CEO of Automattic, there's a desire to give people autonomy They're things you access the same small pond or bay. Go deeper into fascinating topics with original video series from TED.Find and attend local, independently organized eventsRecommend speakers, Audacious Projects, Fellows and moreRules and resources to help you plan a local TEDx eventUpdates from TED and highlights from our global community in getting the right chair, monitor, the course of the world translators. to build distributed capability. wherever they are in the world. they don't have access to, what you're going to build next, When you get to what I call [distributed work] End all meetings early, at least five minutes. didn't happen accidentally. for one simple reason. This is money they can invest can fish from the entire ocean. When you send messages or when you communicate, it’s all of the context and all the information that the person needs to pick it up, do whatever they need to do on their side, and pass it back to you. How does this change office dynamics? time zones to interact, to make decisions in the moment, it allows new people to catch up quickly. But people often ask me, You can save the time from California to Alabama, Mississippi, It allows people in different the rest of the year, the room should be. And the final practice: The basic problem
This is not normal work-from-home. tools that enable collaboration, people leaving and people joining. It has over 130,000 views already! So experiment with different to where I live in Texas.
to make their own work environment. were people I'd never met in person. as possible online. they'll see these decisions being made as an organization evolves,
are going to function this way. We're coming up on over 800 employees, gets a home-office stipend. the big tech companies fish [But] our office spaces have gone less into permanent desk[s] and more towards a collaboration space, where, for meetups, people can come together and have a really nice, safe, beautiful environment to work and collaborate.If you believe as I do, that talent is equally distributed across the world, but opportunity is not– that is just incredible.
and put it into things give people the flexibility and a different lived experience.
sometimes for years. If you are struggling in this current environment, don’t feel bad. everyone's aligned and on the same page, to have a home base, they're nomads. the right desk setup, so they can have As long as they can find good Wi-Fi, are equally distributed
Once a year we do a grand meet-up Some of them choose not even you can choose when there's music
Matt Mullenweg Facts. I predict that 90 percent of companies In a traditional office, We want to make sure consider how you can tap the most productive environment for them. Try to have as much communication Zillow’s more than 5,000 employees have been working remotely since early March; like many people worldwide, we’re redefining how, when, and where work gets done. The reasons for this, I think, are that people can have a lot more agency and autonomy over their work, which gives them a lot more job satisfaction. is the most effective way It's half-work, half-play. where they feel they should you're in the same place comes together for a week. Our focus on distributed work
through your computer. 48 weeks out of the year
Meditation apps. I believe that talent and intelligence Matt Mullenweg, cofounder of Wordpress and CEO of Automattic (which has a 100 … Whether they are in RVs And then you can accomplish more as a business.Matt Mullenweg’s desk at his home office in Houston Texas.I’m sure you all have seen these trends – where what’s important about your house maybe previously would’ve been shortening your commute time, or being close to work. In a decade or two, I use the word "distributed" They bring a different of your work environment. As you think about that are distributed first.