Try it Now! Future of Work https://ridethelightning.doorkeeper.jp/events/54875

1. Ride the Lightning vol. 25
Distributed Teamwork
Try It Now!
Future of Work
Naoko Takano / Automattic
December 8, 2016 @ AQ Tokyo

2. @naokomc
en.naoko.cc
Naoko Takano
高野直子
Automattic
Globalizer, Team Global
(Localization project mgt)
WordPress.org
Polyglots/Community Contributor
(Translation & event organization)
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3. Established: August 2005
HQ: San Francisco, USA
100% Distributed (“Remote”)

4. …and too!

7. .blog Domain

8. hosting

9. WordPress powers 27% of the Web
and covers 58% of CMS Market share
+
http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all
http://trends.builtwith.com/cms

10. 514 staff in 52 countries

11. Automattic Lounge
• In San Francisco
• Anyone can drop-in
• Nobody commutes every day

12. Remote first,
Remote-only
for 11 years

13. People: Then & Now

14. San Francisco, 2006
First company-wide meetup

15. Quebec, 2009
First company meetup I attended

16. Whistler, 2016
Most recent company meetup

17. 100% flat
No hierarchy, just teams
2009
2016
↓

19. Tools: Then & Now

20. IRC
Mostly SVN + Trac
1 “P2” blog
Skype (1:1)
Search across P2/IRC
Not much email

21. 415 “P2” blogs
Slack
Github > SVN + Trac
Zoom (team video chat)
Skype (1:1)
Search across P2/Slack/Code/
Support Tickets/Docs
Still not much email

23. Example of P2
(Not Automattic.
make.wordpress.org/design )

24. 105 teams
198 projects
77 “watercoolers”
Active P2s
402,785 posts, 1,229,930 comments, and 89,765,415 words
across 415 P2s

25. Why It's Working for Us

26. Open Source DNA
Transparency, autonomy, shared goal & passion
https://www.flickr.com/photos/whiteafrican/2570514012

27. 100% Distributed
Asynchronous communication is default
https://www.flickr.com/photos/uclmaps/15051460475

28. Trial Period
Hire only those who can work
effectively in this environment
https://officetoday.wordpress.com/2016/08/23/london-ontario-canada/

29. Future of Work

30. More automation
Business tools, CMS, AI…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gastev/2174504149

31. More collaboration
Across locations, cultures,
and languages

32. More self-driven
Choose where/when/
how you work
https://www.flickr.com/photos/footfun/3838719190

33. Future of Work
… You can try it now.

34. Open source project

35. Or join Automattic? :)
https://automattic.com/work-with-us/

36. ‣ How I fell into the rabbit hole: life and work
at the distributed wonderland.
https://luca.blog/2014/10/14/how-i-fell-into-the-rabbit-hole-life-and-work-at-the-distributed-wonderland/
‣ Hire by Auditions, Not Resumes
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/01/hire-by-auditions-not-resumes/
‣ This pioneering tech company figured how
to make work-from-home work
http://qz.com/694410/automattic-has-figured-out-the-right-tools-for-remote-working/
‣ Make WordPress
https://make.wordpress.org/
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