The distributed nature of the company was never a bargaining plan: the costs of sending employees to team meet-ups balanced out any financial advantages of remote work. But regardless of finances, Automatticians recognized they had more freedom over their time than the rest of the working world, perhaps the most important compensation there is. They call the rate at which people leave a company the attrition rate. It's a fantastic way to examine the health of an organization. In the eighteen months I worked there, fewer than six people left, a very low number.
