Remote: Office Not Required
by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
The Basecamp founders' 2013 case for remote work: why the office is a bad place to get work done, how to manage asynchronously, hire anywhere, avoid loneliness and keep culture. It was prescient and remains one of the clearest statements of how to make distributed work actually work.
Read it if…
you lead a distributed team and want principles rather than tool tips.
Skip it if…
you are fully in-office by design; this will annoy you.
Three things you will actually use
- Overlap hours, not full days, are what remote teams need.
- Writing is the core remote skill.
- Trust is the operating system; surveillance kills it.
Do this first
Move one recurring meeting to a written update this week and see what breaks.
Our verdict
Distributed work, clearly stated.
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