The one question I’m asked more than any other when talking about working at GitLab is: wait, you don’t have any offices? That is often followed by a confused look or the direct question: How?

Writing down decisions, asynchronous communication, measuring results, not hours. Companies often aspire to these goals…however in an all-remote company, they aren’t aspirational - they are requirements. GitLab has grown from 9 people in 2014 to over 900 people in 55 different …