![]() ![]() This has brought more flexibility and focus to their day.” “By encouraging employees to remove all unnecessary meetings from their calendars, and to be more intentional about scheduling live conversations, our people have been able to shift from “all day syncs” to “async by default”. “We’re leveraging the benefits of remote work, without losing that in-person element. “We feel we’re providing the most consistent experience to our employees, and a level playing field,” Laura ryan says. It’s an approach based on trust, meticulous organisation and, above all, a realisation that technology can be as much a hindrance as a help in the new world. A culture shift which attempts not to recreate the old office structure in a virtual setting, but build something completely different, a new paradigm which respects each person’s boundaries and helps avoid the dreaded burnout. It’s all part of Dropbox’s ‘asynchronous by default’ approach. Yep, senior managers actively stop you doing anything to help the business while you’re away – even if you’re a senior employee with loads of direct reports. ![]() In this case, you can’t access your emails, or any other work-based communication while you’re away, because the company locks you out. It disrupts our holiday and prevents us from fully switching off, but, well, it’s just the way of the modern world. We need to reassure ourselves that the company hasn’t imploded in our absence and we haven’t left some awful mess for someone else to clear up. We all check our emails when we’re on holiday, right? Here talk to Laura Ryan, Dropbox’s director of International HR, about he reasons for this decisive shift. Taking a cue from its own collaboration tools, it has rebuilt its entire organisational structure around real-time communication – and reaped immediate benefits from doing so. As one of the world’s foremost cloud storage specialists, Dropbox has strived to get ahead of the remote working trend since the start of the pandemic. ![]()
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