Wave

We really are a full-remote company by design, we don’t have any office so we all work from home (or co-working spaces). Though we are not remote-onl as we gather quarterly for memorable offsites. We also enjoy occasional meet-ups in co-working spaces.

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Of course full-remote is an incredible opportunity for companies to work with talents from all over the world, not only because we increase our pool of candidates but also because we can benefit from a variety of culture and background, we value this diversity a lot. Of course full-remote is an incredible opportunity for employees to choose where they want to live and have a great personal and professional balance. But let’s be honest, working 100% remotely is also a challenge in terms of ways of working, collaboration and most importantly social bonds between employees. We still face some challenges and as for many topics at Wave we regularly seek feedback from the team in a continuous improvement philosophy.

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So far we set some principles in terms of remote ways of working: First of all, we try to have mostly asynchronous communication. We avoid flooding people’s agendas with meetings. We ensure a daily 3-hour ‘deep-work’ with no meetings and no notifications so everyone has time to focus and work on their top priority objectives. We still feel we need some synchronous meetings to effectively run the company and work together:

• the Monday Ride : aiming to align everyone for the week to come
• the Friday Watch, to close the week together : primarily a moment for demos and celebrations
• 1:1 between employees and their managers