The World Is Going Remote
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Episode 1 is about remote work and narrated by me. In future episodes, we will feature friends, entrepreneurs, domain experts talk about habits, tech trends, and venture stories.
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Summary
Welcome to the first episode of Lockdown With Kumar. The future of work is remote and distributed - for some companies it will be a 100% transformation, for some partial. Whatever happens, remote work is here to stay. Featuring the host Abhineet Kumar, The World is Going Remote covers:
0:53 Gratitude
1:54 Why I am loving work from home?
2:22 Hiten Shah's Remote Work report highlights
2:51 Remote Work was there even 10 Years Ago at Citrix
3:20 Two interesting CEO takes on remote work: Austen Allred of Lambda School vs Brent Beshore of Permanent Equity (Tech vs Non-Tech)
6:00 Culture tweaks: Podia hosts a virtual retreat
8:00 Culture tweaks: Apurv from Squad hosted a remote townhall
8:23 With remote work, individuals will write more, and writing well will become the most important skill
8:27 Isolation and lack of social opportunities in remote work
9:37 Pragli and Hallway.Chat try tackling isolation
10:09 Unbundling of Clubhouse to cater to enterprise use cases
10:31 Kavita's tweet on employee visibility and upward mobility impacted in the modern remote workplace
11:23 Transformation of MSFT Teams from Nov 2019 to Mar 2020
12:12 Micromanagers will have a tough time with remote work LOL