The basic problem with working in an office 在办公室工作的基本问题
is you're just not in control of your work environment. 你只是不能控制你的工作环境。
[The Way We Work] [我们的工作方式]
Howdy, my name is Matt, and I'm the CEO of Automattic, 你好，我叫马特，我是自动阁楼的首席执行官，
the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack and WooCommerce. WordPress.com、Jetpack和WooCommerce背后的公司。
We're coming up on over 800 employees, and they live everywhere, 我们有800多名员工，他们住在任何地方，
from California to Alabama, Mississippi, to where I live in Texas. 从加利福尼亚到阿拉巴马，密西西比，再到我住在德克萨斯的地方。
They're also in 67 countries. 他们也在67个国家。
Canada, Mexico, India, New Zealand. 加拿大、墨西哥、印度、新西兰。
Some of them choose not even to have a home base, they're nomads. 他们中的一些人甚至选择不拥有一个家庭基地，他们是游牧民族。
Whether they are in RVs or traveling through Airbnbs, 不管他们是在房车还是在Airbnbs旅行，
they are in new places every day, week or month. 他们每天、每周或每月都在新的地方。
As long as they can find good Wi-Fi, we don't care where they are. 只要他们能找到好的Wi-Fi，我们就不在乎他们在哪里。
Our focus on distributed work didn't happen accidentally. 我们对分布式工作的关注并不是偶然发生的。
It was a conscious choice from the very beginning. 从一开始就是有意识的选择。
Notice I don't use the word "remote," 注意我不用"远程"这个词，
because it sets up the expectation, 因为它建立了期望，
that some people are essential and some aren't. 一些人是必需的而另一些人不是。
I use the word "distributed" to describe what we do, 我用"分布式"这个词来描述我们的行为，
where everyone is on an equal playing field. 每个人都在平等的运动场上。
I think a distributed workforce 我认为分散的劳动力
is the most effective way to build a company. 是建立一个公司最有效的方法。
The key is you have to approach it consciously. 关键是你必须有意识地接近它。
When we started WordPress, 当我们启动WordPress的时候，
many of the first 20 hires were people I'd never met in person. 在最初的20名员工中，有许多是我从未见过的人。
But we'd collaborated online, sometimes for years. 但我们在网上合作过，有时几年了。
I wanted to continue that for one simple reason. 我想继续这样做有一个简单的原因。
I believe that talent and intelligence 我相信天赋和智慧
are equally distributed throughout the world. 同样分布在全世界。
But opportunity is not. 但机会不是。
In Silicon Valley, the big tech companies fish 在硅谷，大型科技公司
from essentially the same small pond or bay. 基本上来自同一个小池塘或海湾。
A distributed company can fish from the entire ocean. 一个分布式的公司可以从整个海洋捕鱼。
Instead of hiring someone who grew up in Japan but lives in California, 与其雇一个在日本长大但住在加州的人，
you can gain someone who lives, works, 你能找到一个生活工作的人，
wakes up and goes to sleep wherever they are in the world. 无论他们在世界的什么地方都会醒来睡觉。
They bring a different understanding of that culture 他们带来了对那个文化的不同理解
and a different lived experience. 一种不同的生活体验。
At the base of the decision to go distributed, 在决定分发的基础上，
there's a desire to give people autonomy over how they do their work. 人们渴望让人们对自己的工作方式拥有自主权。
Unless you're in a role where specific hours are important, 除非你在一个特定的时间很重要的角色里，
you can make your own schedule. 你可以自己安排时间。
Everyone can have a corner office, their windows, the food they want to eat, 每个人都可以有一个角落的办公室，他们的窗户，他们想吃的食物，
you can choose when there's music and when there's silence. 你可以选择什么时候有音乐什么时候有寂静。
You can choose what temperature the room should be. 你可以选择房间的温度。
You can save the time you'd spend commuting 你可以省下你上下班的时间
and put it into things that are important to you. 把它用在对你很重要的事情上。
A distributed workforce is ideal for a technology company. 分布式劳动力对于技术公司来说是理想的。
But people often ask me, 但人们经常问我，
"This works great for y'all, but what about everyone else?" "这对你们都很管用，但其他人呢？"
If you have an office, 如果你有办公室，
you can do a few things to build distributed capability. 您可以做一些事情来构建分布式功能。
First: document everything. 第一：记录一切。
In an office, it's easy to make decisions in the moment, 在办公室里，现在做决定很容易，
in the kitchen, in the hall. 在厨房，在大厅。
But if people work remotely 但如果人们远程工作
and some members of the team are having those conversations 团队中的一些成员正在进行这些对话
they don't have access to, 他们无法接触到，
they'll see these decisions being made without understanding the why. 他们会看到这些决定是在不理解原因的情况下做出的。
Always leave a trail of where you were and what you were thinking about. 总是留下你在哪里和你在想什么的线索。
This allows others to pick up where you left off. 这样别人就可以从你停下的地方拿起。
It allows people in different time zones to interact, 它允许不同时区的人们互动，
it's also great to think about as an organization evolves, 当一个组织发展的时候思考它也是很好的，
people leaving and people joining. 有人离开，有人加入。
Try to have as much communication as possible online. 尽量在网上进行尽可能多的交流。
When everything's shared and public, it allows new people to catch up quickly. 当所有的事情都被分享和公开的时候，它就能让新的人很快赶上。
You also need to find the right tools. 你还需要找到正确的工具。
There are so many apps and services that help with day-to-day communication, 有太多的应用程序和服务可以帮助人们进行日常交流，
video conferencing, project management. 视频会议，项目管理。
The things that changed how you work probably aren't objects anymore. 改变你工作方式的东西可能不再是对象了。
They're things you access through your computer. 它们是你通过电脑可以访问的东西。
So experiment with different tools that enable collaboration, 所以尝试使用不同的工具来实现协作，
see what works. 看看有什么用。
Create productive, face-to-face time. 创造富有成效的面对面的时间。
In a traditional office, 在传统的办公室里，
you're in the same place 48 weeks out of the year 你一年中48周都呆在同一个地方
and you might have three or four weeks apart. 你可能还有三到四周的时间。
We try to flip that: we come together for short, intense bursts. 我们试图扭转这一局面：我们聚在一起，进行短暂而激烈的爆发。
Once a year we do a grand meet-up 每年我们都会举行一次盛大的聚会
where the entire company comes together for a week. 整个公司都聚在一起一个星期。
It's half-work, half-play. 一半是工作，一半是游戏。
The primary goal is connecting people. 主要的目标是把人们联系起来。
We want to make sure everyone's aligned and on the same page, 我们要确保每个人都站在同一页上，
and they have a deeper connection with their colleagues. 他们与同事之间有着更深层次的联系。
When they work together the rest of the year, 当他们在一起工作的时候，
they can bring together that understanding and empathy. 他们可以把这种理解和同情结合在一起。
And the final practice: 最后的练习是：
give people the flexibility to make their own work environment. 给人们创造自己工作环境的灵活性。
Every person at Automattic has a co-working stipend 在自动阁楼的每个人都有一个共同工作的津贴
that they can put towards a co-working space 他们可以创造一个合作的空间
or just to buy coffee, so they don't get kicked out of the coffee shop. 或者只是去买咖啡，这样他们就不会被赶出咖啡店。
One group in Seattle decided to pool their stipends together 西雅图的一群人决定把他们的饮料放在一起
and rented a workspace on a fishing pier. 在一个钓鱼码头租了个工作间。
Each person who joins the company gets a home-office stipend. 每个加入公司的人都有一个家庭办公室津贴。
This is money they can invest in getting the right chair, monitor, 他们可以投资这些钱来买到合适的椅子，班长，
the right desk setup, so they can have the most productive environment for them. 正确的办公桌设置，使他们可以有最富有成效的环境为他们。
Today, there are just a few companies that are distributed first. 今天，只有少数几家公司是首先发行的。
In a decade or two, I predict that 90 percent of companies 在一二十年的时间里，我预计90%的公司
that are going to be changing the course of the world 会改变世界的进程
are going to function this way. 会以这种方式运作。
They will evolve to be distributed first, or they'll be replaced by those that are. 它们将进化为首先被分发，或者它们将被那些被。
As you think about what you're going to build next, 当你考虑下一步要做什么的时候，
consider how you can tap into global talent, 想想你是如何发掘全球人才的，
give people autonomy to live and work where they feel they should 给予人们在他们认为应该居住和工作的地方生活和工作的自主权
and still participate fully in whatever it is that you're creating together. 仍然充分参与你们共同创造的一切。