Good Remote Work Policies

Core Hours vs. Deep Work Time

• no work notifications during Deep work blocks
• no meetings during Deep work blocks
• no mandatory morning standsups the kill morning productivity
• Core work hours are hours where everyone would be generally avilable for meetings or quick response to questions

Comunication

• Async by default
• Sync only when necessary
• Document all decisions in writting
• Good use of channels/groups
• Respect of time zones
• Urgent means the production site is down everything else is less then Urgent
  • if most things become urgent that means nothing is

What not to include

These make developers quit and are of little to no good to help the company if the mangment is good.

• micromanagement
• Time Tracking
• Surveillance software

Sample Remote work policy