Matt Mullenweg: Why working from home is good for business
Matt Mullenweg: De ce e bună pentru companii munca de acasă
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.
asupra mediului de muncă.
and I'm the CEO of Automattic,
directorul executiv al Automattic,
Jetpack and WooCommerce.
Jetpack și WooCommerce.
and they live everywhere,
care locuiesc peste tot,
to where I live in Texas.
până la Texas, unde locuiesc eu.
to have a home base, they're nomads.
un domiciliu fix, sunt nomazi.
or traveling through Airbnbs,
sau lună într-un alt loc.
every day, week or month.
we don't care where they are.
bună la Wi-Fi, nu ne pasă unde sunt.
didn't happen accidentally.
pe munca dispersată.
from the very beginning.
încă de la început.
termenul „de la distanță",
and some aren't.
to describe what we do,
on an equal playing field.
to build a company.
de a construi o companie.
approach it consciously.
were people I'd never met in person.
nu îi întâlnisem niciodată personal,
sometimes for years.
uneori ani de zile.
for one simple reason.
dintr-un simplu motiv:
throughout the world.
the big tech companies fish
the same small pond or bay.
poate pescui în tot oceanul.
can fish from the entire ocean.
in Japan but lives in California,
care a crescut în Japonia
wherever they are in the world.
oriunde în lume,
understanding of that culture
culturală diferită
o forță de muncă dispersată
to go distributed,
over how they do their work.
autonomia modului de lucru.
where specific hours are important,
în care programul e important,
their windows, the food they want to eat,
ferestre, ce mâncare vor,
and when there's silence.
the room should be.
you'd spend commuting
that are important to you.
mai importante pentru tine.
is ideal for a technology company.
pentru o companie tech,
but what about everyone else?"
dar cum rămâne cu ceilalți?”
to build distributed capability.
pentru a eficientiza munca dispersată.
to make decisions in the moment,
lucrează de la distanță
are having those conversations
au fost luate acele decizii.
without understanding the why.
and what you were thinking about.
unde ai ajuns și la ce te gândeai.
să continue de unde ai rămas
where you left off.
orare diferite să interacționeze,
time zones to interact,
as an organization evolves,
ce compania evoluează,
cât de mult poți în mediul online.
as possible online.
it allows new people to catch up quickly.
nou-veniților să recupereze rapid.
și instrumentele potrivite.
that help with day-to-day communication,
ce ajută cu comunicarea de zi cu zi,
managementul proiectelor.
probably aren't objects anymore.
în care muncești nu mai sunt obiectele.
through your computer.
tools that enable collaboration,
instrumente ce permit colaborarea,
48 weeks out of the year
three or four weeks apart.
nu sunteți împreună.
for short, intense bursts.
pentru perioade scurte și intense.
timp de o săptămână.
comes together for a week.
everyone's aligned and on the same page,
e pe aceeași lungime de undă
with their colleagues.
the rest of the year,
that understanding and empathy.
propriul mediu de muncă.
to make their own work environment.
primește niște bani
has a co-working stipend
towards a co-working space
ca să nu fie dați afară din cafenea.
get kicked out of the coffee shop.
să îți cumuleze cheltuielile
decided to pool their stipends together
de birouri lângă un lac.
primesc bani pentru biroul de acasă.
gets a home-office stipend.
in getting the right chair, monitor,
un scaun potrivit, un monitor,
the most productive environment for them.
cel mai productiv mediu pentru ei.
that are distributed first.
cu forță de muncă dispersată.
I predict that 90 percent of companies
cred că peste 90% dintre companiile
the course of the world
bazate pe muncă dispersată,
or they'll be replaced by those that are.
ce urmează să construiești,
what you're going to build next,
into global talent,
acces la talentul global,
where they feel they should
să trăiască și să muncească cum vor
it is that you're creating together.
la ceea ce construiți împreună.
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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