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zeldman (who these days works for Automattic) writes:
1,500 people. 70 countries. No office. Millions of documented words. Most companies would call this chaos. We call it Tuesday. Here's how #Automattic turned distributed work into a communication culture that actually scales.
When you start to read the
linked article, though, you learn
Quick coordination happens on Slack, project planning on Linear, code on GitHub, and real-time sync on Zoom. For drafting together we still use Google Docs, though collaborative editing is coming natively to WordPress soon.
Wordpress is GPL software, and there are certainly worse companies than Automattic, but it's a shame it rubs its nose so deeply in the corporate shit pile. You could imagine it supporting and promoting the non-proprietary alternatives to these tools, and helping to make the world a better place.
