From Office-First to Remote-First: How Your Company Can do it Easily

Setting up a remote worker is broken

Remote is seen as a perk by companies and workers which has led to two major problems:

1. Companies do not supply adequate equipment
2. Workers have lower expectations of what they should get

There’s been huge focus on the ‘sexy’ side of remote working. Things like communication, collaboration, documentation and cloud access to internal infrastructure/tools. This makes sense — there have been awesome advances in these areas over the last six years — it is the reason that remote work is possible now when it wasn’t before.

Today, while remote is now possible, there is a missing half of the future of work. The boring, dusty, infrastructure which let’s remote teams scale globally does not exist and this is a huge problem for companies already making, or considering, the transition. In some cases, the inability to provide a great culture and experience stops companies from progressing.

Providing a great remote working experience is hard

1. It’s expensive — $3,000 — $5,000 per worker of upfront cost
2. Getting a remote worker setup is time-consuming