Matt Mullenweg: Why working from home is good for business
Matt Mullenweg: Warum sich Homeoffice auszahlt
Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of the open-source blogging platform WordPress, the most popular publishing platform on the web, and the founder and CEO of Automattic. Full bio
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with working in an office
of your work environment.
and I'm the CEO of Automattic,
Geschäftsführer von Automattic,
Jetpack und WooCommerce.
Jetpack and WooCommerce.
and they live everywhere,
und sie leben überall,
von Mississippi bis Texas.
to where I live in Texas.
sie wollen keinen festen Wohnsitz.
to have a home base, they're nomads.
or traveling through Airbnbs,
every day, week or month.
ist uns egal, wo sie sind.
we don't care where they are.
didn't happen accidentally.
war kein Zufall,
from the very beginning.
denn das Wort lässt erwarten:
and some aren't.
to describe what we do,
on an equal playing field.
ist für den Firmenaufbau optimal.
to build a company.
approach it consciously.
der ersten 20 Mitarbeiter nicht,
were people I'd never met in person.
oft schon online gearbeitet.
sometimes for years.
for one simple reason.
einfachen Grund fortsetzen:
sind global gleichmäßig verteilt,
throughout the world.
the big tech companies fish
im gleichen kleinen Teich.
the same small pond or bay.
can fish from the entire ocean.
fischt man im ganzen Ozean.
in Japan but lives in California,
lebenden Japaners
aufwacht und schlafen geht.
wherever they are in the world.
und andere Lebenserfahrungen.
understanding of that culture
to go distributed,
over how they do their work.
bei ihrer Tätigkeit geben zu wollen.
kann man sich die Arbeit einteilen,
where specific hours are important,
sein Lieblingsessen gönnen.
their windows, the food they want to eat,
and when there's silence.
the room should be.
you'd spend commuting
mehr Zeit für wichtigere Dinge.
that are important to you.
ist verteilte Arbeit ideal.
is ideal for a technology company.
"Funktioniert das auch für andere?"
but what about everyone else?"
lassen sich Vertriebskapazitäten erhöhen.
to build distributed capability.
trifft man leicht Entscheidungen.
to make decisions in the moment,
are having those conversations
die ein Teil des Teams bespricht,
without understanding the why.
über Ihre Aktionen und Ideen.
and what you were thinking about.
where you left off.
können interagieren.
time zones to interact,
die Personalentwicklung im Auge.
as an organization evolves,
as possible online.
finden neue Leute schnell Anschluss.
it allows new people to catch up quickly.
that help with day-to-day communication,
für die tägliche Kommunikation:
nicht mehr durch Objekte.
probably aren't objects anymore.
through your computer.
sehen Sie selbst, was funktioniert.
tools that enable collaboration,
48 Wochen im Jahr zusammen
48 weeks out of the year
three or four weeks apart.
for short, intense bursts.
kurze, intensive Treffen.
zu einer einwöchigen Konferenz zusammen.
comes together for a week.
Leute zusammenzubringen.
everyone's aligned and on the same page,
und die Kontakte vertiefen.
with their colleagues.
the rest of the year,
that understanding and empathy.
ihren Arbeitsplatz flexibel gestalten.
to make their own work environment.
has a co-working stipend
einfach in Kaffee investieren kann.
towards a co-working space
get kicked out of the coffee shop.
legte das Geld zusammen
decided to pool their stipends together
erhält Geld für den Arbeitsbereich --
gets a home-office stipend.
und die Schreibtischgestaltung,
in getting the right chair, monitor,
the most productive environment for them.
produktives Umfeld zu schaffen.
mit verteilter Belegschaft.
that are distributed first.
90 % der weltweit führenden Betriebe so.
I predict that 90 percent of companies
the course of the world
auf verteilte Arbeit um
or they'll be replaced by those that are.
bei Ihren Zukunftsplänen,
what you're going to build next,
into global talent,
für Arbeit und Leben geben
where they feel they should
was Sie gemeinsam gestalten.
it is that you're creating together.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Matt Mullenweg - DemocratizerMatt Mullenweg is the co-founder of the open-source blogging platform WordPress, the most popular publishing platform on the web, and the founder and CEO of Automattic.
Why you should listen
Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of the open-source blogging platform WordPress, the most popular publishing platform on the web, and the founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce and Jetpack. He also runs Audrey Capital, an investment and research company.
Mullenweg has been recognized for his leadership and success by Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, Inc. Magazine, TechCrunch, Fortune, Fast Company, Wired, University Philosophical Society and Vanity Fair.
Mullenweg is originally from Houston, Texas, where he attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and studied jazz saxophone. In his spare time, he is an avid photographer. Mullenweg splits time between Houston, New York and San Francisco.
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