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And so it's also just really fun because we have really interesting people at the company and we get to see

little bit of their lives and we also encourage coffee chats so others can get to know each other around the company and we take the time to do social activities as a team this is super hard when everyone is all around the world in different regions so you do have to be deliberate about it and I think the most important thing is to be inclusive of

of all the regions.

Like we only have a few people in APAC right now, but we always try to make sure that we have something built in for the APAC folks.

Fostering community remotely is another key thing.

We have concentrations of team members in certain cities and some of the bigger cities.

So they often meet up when we have a lot of digital nomads at our company, for example, and they travel and they like to meet up with each other as well.

I'm going to meet someone for lunch today who I've worked with for over a year and a half, never met in person, and we're meeting for the first time today.

But even if you can't meet up in person, I think there's still ways to foster community online.

And for better or for worse, Slack is kind of our remote office.

And we have a lot of social channels, and it always delights me to see all these social channels and the activity around them.

So we have channels for coffee,

for cycling, for music, various women's groups.

And these are where people from all over the place can connect on things that matter to them.

And then the last thing is we talk a lot about work-life balance.

We wanna flip the script on that.

We talk about life-work balance at remote and integrating work into your life.

And the reason for that is because in a remote-first environment, it can be really hard to switch off when all of your colleagues are working in different time zones.

And so as leaders, I think it's really important for all of us to encourage setting boundaries,

between work and personal life and to model that behavior ourselves as an example, and to also continue to be relentless about async work.