Intercultural Teams

When it comes to swimming in the deep end of the remote working pool, few companies are doing it at a wider scale than Automattic — the company behind WordPress, which powers 35% of all websites on the internet. This company has 1,170 employees scattered across more 75 countries, speaking 93 languages. They do not have an office, with its employees collaborating almost exclusively online. Automattic’s founder, Mullenweg talks about ‘the five levels of distributed teams’.