A central element in Automattic culture was results first.4 Nobody cared when you arrived at work or how long you worked. It didn't matter if you were pantless in your living room or bathing in the sun, swinging in a hammock with a martini in your hand. What mattered was your output. Shouldn't the quality of work be the primary measure of worker performance? Isn't it good, then, to eliminate traditions that get in the way and add ones that help? Working distributedly facilitated this since many stupid traditions around work status, such as judging people by who arrives early or stays late,
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