Our move to Digital By Design
summary
Shopify abandons office-centricity and goes Digital by Design, claiming offices are over and doubling headcount since 2020 while hiring in 18 countries. Concrete programs: Destination 90 (90-day relocations), weekly high-production digital town halls, synchronized hack weeks, a Sidekicks slack mixer, Geekbot async standups, and a bursting app that staffs coordinators for in-person bursts held in eight curated ports. Tooling includes Tuple for remote pairing, Fellow for agendas, and Spin, an in-house cloud dev environment that speeds PRs. Outcome: faster onboarding, broader talent pool, and more inclusive decision making.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Introduction to Digital By Design
- 1:55Why offices are over
- 3:19Leveling the global playing field
- 5:07Doubling down on transparency
- 6:33Destination 90 program
- 7:33Weekly digital town halls
- 8:14Annual summit reimagined
- 9:17Hack days and sidekicks
- 11:03Investing in home offices
- 11:44Key digital tools at Shopify
- 13:09Pair programming with Tuple
- 13:30Meeting notes with Fellow
- 13:52Async standups with Geekbot
- 14:55Cloud dev with Spin
- 15:57Bursts for in-person collaboration
- 17:42Burst planning app
- 18:23Global ports for bursts
- 20:30Mission and global workforce
- 21:56Impact on talent pool
- 22:39Growing talent digitally
- 24:03Office centricity is over
- 25:39Q&A with audience
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