We are at the writing of this document a company with people in:
Achieving high performance in a distributed team requires a few principles
Meetings are expensive, but for us even more so. We therefore value asynchronous communication wherever sensible e.g.:
Despite our Bias towards async communication, sync communication is a crucial element of our work and must be possible whenever necessary.
To enable this and mimic working from the same office room, we define core availability hours between the standup at 09:15 CET and 15:00 CET.
Core availability means that we are either on or close to our laptop to be able to jump into a call quickly.
Whenever we are not available during core availability hours, we mark this as OOO in our calendar.