Shopify's remote working toolbox
summary
Shopify goes fully remote one month after the pandemic and claims specific, repeatable practices: organize teams so members have one to two hour time-zone overlap for daily pairing while the department runs an async culture with written updates; a four-week onboarding where new hires dogfood by building a store (set up taxes in Mexico, ship to Canada); run documentation sprints, use Geekbot async stand-ups, keep brag docs and an internal newsletter to improve writing and trace impact.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:48The Future of Work
- 5:30Org Structure
- 9:35Building a Division
- 11:25Onboarding
- 15:14Norms
- 17:53Asynchronous Communication
- 18:17Writing
- 20:29Practice
- 24:21Wrap up
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