What Distributed Teams Know About Focus That Offices Don't (opens in new tab)

The simple version Asynchronous communication means you don’t need the other person present when you send a message. Distributed teams figured out this constraint is actually a feature, not a bug. Why the open office got focus backwards The open office was sold on collaboration. What it delivered was interruption with better acoustics. Benched seating and no walls didn’t make ideas flow faster. It made people put on headphones and pretend they were somewhere else. The underlying assumption wa...

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