Probably the most significant advantage of working remotely and asynchronously is the flexibility it provides. This makes it easy to combine work with your personal life, although it might be challenging to find the right balance. This can be mitigated by either explicitly planning your time off or plan when you do work. When you don't work, it is recommended to make yourself unavailable by turning off Slack and closing down your email client. Coworkers should allow this to work by abiding by the communication guidelines.
If you worked at an office before, you lack a default group to lunch with. To look at it from a different perspective, now you can select who you lunch with and who you do not. Haven't spoken to a good friend in a while? Now you can have lunch together.
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Our team is diverse; we do not make jokes or unfriendly remarks about race, religion, gender, or orientation.
Make your Slack message as complete as possible; this is especially true for DMs.
E.g., avoid greetings without the actual content of your request.
We don't tolerate safe space violations of any kind at Axelerant, and we recognize that this happens, even within a remote workplace.
If this happens to you or recognizes this happening to others, raise this immediately via email to people@axelerant.com.
Everyone at the company cares about your output, but take a break if you need to take a break.
Everything is always in draft or iteration in our line of work, subject to change—including this. Make iterations as accessible as possible.
Before replying to a request, complete the requested task first. Otherwise, indicate when you plan to complete it in your response.
Be courteous when it comes to projects and tasks by communicating clearly.
If you don't have time to do something due to priorities, let people know when they give you the tasks.
Don't let requests linger; inform so that others can find an alternative.
There is no need for consensus. Make sure that you give people that might have useful insights a chance to respond.
Make a call yourself because consensus doesn't scale.
Make a conscious effort to recognize the constraints of others within the team.
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