Especially just getting started with a company, Joel states that if you have the option to go all in if you can. You should do so because it’ll force you to craft your collaboration and communication as a company to correlate with remote working. He finds it to be an inclusive way to work when meetings and information are recorded in documents for employees to review.

When you have new people joining a distributed team, some tend to have similar mentality of wanting to stay and grow in the same job instead of jumping to a new one within a year or two. It creates long-lasting and strong friendships when the kind of people find a company where they want to stick around.