Flo Crivello, founder and CEO of Lindy, is sounding the death knell for remote work in his AI startup. Earlier an advocate of remote work, Crivello is now moving his team to San Francisco, USA.
In a memo sent to Lindy employees last month, Crivello acknowledged the many benefits of working from home but emphasised on the varied problems it has created as he asked employees to “colocate” or work from the same location.
“Pains me to say this, but even I have changed my stance on remote,” the CEO of Lindy wrote on Twitter as he shared the memo with the world at large. “We tried hard, developed the best tooling allowed by the tech — and still, remote falls very short of colocation, especially for startups that are still pre-product market fit.”
In the memo, he said that working remotely, with a team that is split across timezones, has made it harder for members to get a hold of each other as not everyone is online at the same time.
“So most interactions are async, leading to lower bandwidth, more context switching, and more things falling through the cracks,” he noted, acknowledging that working remotely is more comfortable from a lifestyle standpoint as employees save on commute and have more flexibility.
A memo I sent to the team last month about changing my mind on remote, and moving the team to SF:https://t.co/K0QoefPNPD https://t.co/EiQgVFYjzqRelated stories
— Flo Crivello (@Altimor) May 22, 2023
“This causes us to be less aligned. We’re only a few engineers right now, and yet people feel out of the loop on who’s building what,” he wrote.
The founder and CEO said that remote work is harder for a startup, especially if it is trying to build something very new. He went on to list the many benefits of colocation – it’s more fun, according to him, and employees get to have lunch with their colleagues “grab beers on Friday nights, play video games at the end of the day in the office, etc.”
Lindy is one among many tech companies that have put an end to remote work, a legacy of the pandemic.
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