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The CEO of Dropbox has a 90/10 rule for remote work::"If you trust people and treat them like adults, they'll behave like adults," Dropbox CEO Drew Houston told Fortune.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (16 children)

This means 90% of the year is spent on remote work, and the remaining 10% is dedicated to employee off-site events.

What does that mean? Five weeks of retreat a year? Who pays for that?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I wouldn’t take the 90/10 literally. It probably is closer to 1 week per quarter at an offsite event.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's still a lot. Four weeks a year?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

A quarter has 13 weeks, so if you do 2 week sprints and align them to start with a quarter, there is 1 week per quarter that is not accounted for. That week can be used for stuff outside of daily activities. It can be used for training, offsites, working on a pet project, etc. Its a good way to build time in the schedule for this type of thing. These types of breaks have tremendous long term value.

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