How To Transition To A Fully Distributed Company From A Collocated Company, with Todd Nienkerk

Remote Work

In this episode, we interviewed Todd Nienkerk. He is a digital strategist and open-source advocate. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of @FourKitchens. Four Kitchens develops apps and websites for organizations with a lot of content. Four Kitchens is a fully remote company with 38 team members distributed across the globe. In this episode we talked to Todd about, transitioning from a co-located to hybrid, to fully remote. We also discussed about the benefits of remote work, relocating “remote work” resources, maintaining culture, communication, in-person retreat and collaboration, team building, lack of laws and resources for remote work. Show highlights? The transition from collocated, to hybrid to fully remote, took about 3 years. Today (as of 2018), Four Kitchens is a fully successful remote office. What they learned on the process? That it is actually more expensive to run a fully distributed company, and how to relocate resources to remote work environment.