📚The phases of remote adaptation from GitLab:

Phase 1, Skeuomorph : a remote organization will look to imitate the design, structure, norms, ebbs and flows of an office environment. The primary goal is to merely continue to operate the business, but remotely.

Phase 2, Functional: Entering Phase 2 is simple. It begins with leadership asking a fundamental question: “What if we didn’t do things the way we’ve always done them?” Companies in Phase 2 will begin to take advantage of technology to replace things which were manually done, or not done at all. For example, a company will begin to:

• Record all meetings and automatically upload them, plugging knowledge gaps created by undocumented gatherings.
• Attach a Google Doc agenda to every business meeting, writing questions, answers, and conversation down in real-time as the meeting transpires so that knowledge is archived for reference, and for viewing by attendees who are not able to attend live.
• Converse about a work topic in a public chat channel instead of a private channel, so that more input may be gained.

Phase 3, Asynchronous: marked by a company’s comfortability in completing work without mandated synchronicity. Maximally efficient remote environments will do as little work as possible synchronously, instead focusing the valuable moments where two or more people are online at the same time on informal communication and bonding.

Phase 4, Intentionality: marked by an extraordinary amount of intentionality, particularly in areas that are typically assumed to need minimal guardrails. [For example] Measuring output (results) rather than input (hours). This requires a deliberate choice to not measure hours spent working, as well as a strong commitment to outlining deliverables and expectations that can be measured. This enables team members to work towards their goals in any manner they choose.