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Dan Andrews shares hard-won lessons from 15 years of building remote teams. His key insight: the biggest failure mode isn't finding talent — it's providing enough structure and communication for remote workers to succeed without the casual information flow of an office.
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Canon
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Andrews argues that the office IS a communication technology — it provides ambient information flow, casual interaction, and visual cues that remote environments lack. Remote work fails when companies remove this technology without building a replacement.
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Remote work fails not because of lazy workers but because of lazy management — remote teams need 10x more deliberate communication than office teams
Andrews argues that most remote work failures are management failures: companies remove the office but don't replace the casual communication infrastructure it provided. Remote workers don't fail because they're unsupervised — they fail because they're uninformed.Was this useful?