Distributed Teams Quotes

The core corporation is ... increasingly a façade, behind which teems an array of decentralized groups and subgroups continuously contracting with similarly diffuse working units all over the world.

The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.

I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area.

I loved operations, and I loved operations far from the headquarters. I had no passion for corporate.

When we first started Glitch, there were four co-founders of the company. We built Flickr and worked together at Yahoo and then started Tiny Speck. We were split in Vancouver, New York, and San Francisco. So we used an old chat technology called IRC. Almost nothing went through email.

The surprising question we get is, 'How many people telecommute at Google?' And our answer is, 'As few as possible.'

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?

Distributed workforces are most likely to succeed if their culture is one that values and prioritizes face-to-face communications.

Very, very few people actually have long stretches of uninterrupted time at an office.