We are async-prone & remote-first

To our eyes, the ability to work async is what makes remote work so cool. Say goodbye to shoulder taps and unwanted disruptions and say hello to more self-organisation freedom.

Async comes with a bunch of benefits:

• It gives you more control over your workday ;
• It enforces higher quality communications & fosters the need for better documentation (you don’t want to wait 24 hours to get an irrelevant answer to your question, do you?) ;
• It requires better upfront planning, which should mean less last minute rushes ;
• It makes deep work the default mode ;
• It diminishes the need to “be there”.

Of course, team life cannot happen remotely and async. Nor can some specific tasks requiring lots of coordination (emergencies, complex deployments…). Here is a summary of our sync/async communication channels :

Finally, here are a few pro tips to make async work:

• Set timing expectations when you communicate to the team (at the latest, you’ll get a chance to sync during the following day’s Daily).
• Ask on public channel when stuck. This will not only grow your chance of getting support but also let the whole team benefit from what you’ve learned.
• Over-communicate to let the team know what you do and avoid back-and-forth communications.
• Share your online timeframes with the team.
  • Say “Hello” on our #__hq Slack channel when you sign-in.
  • Post a quick recap of your day ion our #__daily Slack channel when signing-off.
• Default to transparency when sharing documentation or material.
• Document all decisions taken on this very Notion workspace.

A typical work week

Rituals