Roadmap- Remote Work (Bessemer)

Talia Goldberg’s Bessemer roadmap on remote work as the knowledge economy’s next platform.

Why it was kept

Kyle’s excerpts cover the costs of traditional office work, the perceived challenges of distributed teams, and the categories of software Bessemer expected remote work to create.

As Kyle captured it

• Read Roadmap: Remote Work by Talia Goldberg at Bessemer Venture Partners
  • Related: Knowledge Economy Remote Work
  • “In the near future, the knowledge economy will be built on a decentralized workforce. Businesses are already retrofitting team architectures to match this future state. As these changes begin to crest and companies reshape how teams are built and what “work” entails, a mega wave of business software and tools will support this new generation of knowledge workers.”
  • Costs of Traditional Work
    • The average office worker spends 53 minutes commuting; if an office worker evolved into a remote worker, even part-time, it could lead to more flexible schedules and improved standards of living. From an economic perspective, businesses that hire remote team members save approximately $11,000 per half-time teleworker per year.
  • “Perceived Challenges of Distributed Workforce”
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    • Each of these are categories open to technological innovation
    • Key Areas
      • Culture & Onboarding
        • Zapier supposedly does a good job of onboarding given they have 300+ employees in an all-remote company
          • https://zapier.com/engineering/engineer-onboarding/
        • GitLab is very thoughtful about it as well
          • https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/general-onboarding/