Our goal is to work remote-first and async-first. We believe this work approach comes with a lot of benefits to daily life and it's going to become a new job trend for the following decade(s).
But the truth is that async working does not work just out of the box. Making it successfully happen requires continuous effort, a certain way of thinking, skills, and proper tools.
The purpose of this document is to set up some basic guidelines that should help us being async and at the same time efficient.
<aside> 💡 Consider everything written below as guidelines - the world is not black & white and so is not the collaboration :-).
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Slack is our main communication tool and it can be used in many ways. The goal of the guidelines below is to align expectations on how to use it in our team in the more async matter.
Fill in your phone number so that everyone knows how to reach you for urgent matters.
In connection with the use of emojis, you will find there are some basic meanings that we express on a daily basis – even instead of written response in some situations. It's fast and effective.
It's great to put an emoji reaction on the other side’s message to give them a hint about your status or thoughts.
👀 I have read/acknowledged the message
🤩 This is great news
🎧 I'm concentrating / I’m on a call
😳 What! I'm very surprised