A remote team is one where employees work from locations outside a central office, often distributed across cities, time zones, or countries. The operating model has existed in various forms for decades but grew dramatically as a standard practice during and after the 2020-2022 period when COVID-19 forced remote work and many companies discovered it could work better than expected. Running a remote team requires deliberate operating disciplines (written communication norms, asynchronous decision-making, intentional culture-building, structured collaboration tools) to function well at scale. It is one of the major operating-model shifts of the 2020s and a structural decision that affects every other aspect of company building.
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