Remote Work Market Map

These tools make it possible, for the first time, to effectively get work done without physical co-location — at scale. The last truly significant fixed cost for many startups today is an office lease. Multiple scaled startups (Automattic, Zapier, Invision, Gitlab) have demonstrated the fully remote model, negating the need for an expensive office ... See more

There’s an increasing number of tools that automate workflows to give people more leverage. Their value is in time freed up for building, creativity and strategy. They help us maximize our human strengths as human-software collaboration should. They integrate with 100s or 1000s of tools to cover maximum surface area in our day-to-day workflows.

Work From Home Trade is On

And by the way, I don’t believe that the future of work will be fully remote work, but rather a blend of full and punctual remote together with office presence. This is why these tools could make sense for the majority of businesses and not only for remote only businesses.

The success of companies like Slack, Zoom, and Atlassian in challenging the dominance of Microsoft and Google’s productivity suites accounts for part of this interest, but the rise of remote and distributed teams is the most important secular shift driving the trend.