Matt Mullenweg: Why working from home is good for business
Matt Mullenweg: Pourquoi travailler à domicile est bon pour les affaires
Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of the open-source blogging platform WordPress, the most popular publishing platform on the web, and the founder and CEO of Automattic. Full bio
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with working in an office
of your work environment.
votre environnement de travail.
and I'm the CEO of Automattic,
et je suis le PDG d'Automattic,
Jetpack and WooCommerce.
Jetpack et WooCommerce.
and they live everywhere,
et ils vivent partout,
to where I live in Texas.
le Mississippi et le Texas, où je vis.
to have a home base, they're nomads.
de port d'attache et sont nomades.
ou des Airbnb,
or traveling through Airbnbs,
every day, week or month.
chaque jour, semaine, mois.
we don't care where they are.
peu nous importe où ils sont.
n'est pas arrivée par hasard.
didn't happen accidentally.
from the very beginning.
depuis le tout début.
« à distance »
and some aren't.
pour ce que nous faisons,
to describe what we do,
on an equal playing field.
le plus efficace pour une entreprise.
to build a company.
approach it consciously.
were people I'd never met in person.
beaucoup des 20 premières recrues.
sometimes for years.
parfois durant des années.
for one simple reason.
pour une raison simple.
throughout the world.
the big tech companies fish
les entreprises pêchent
the same small pond or bay.
can fish from the entire ocean.
peut pêcher dans tout l'océan.
in Japan but lives in California,
au Japon mais vit en Californie,
vivant, travaillant,
wherever they are in the world.
où qu'il soit dans le monde
understanding of that culture
compréhension de cette culture
to go distributed,
d'être distribués,
over how they do their work.
de l'autonomie pour leur travail.
where specific hours are important,
où les horaires importent,
ce qu'il veut manger,
their windows, the food they want to eat,
and when there's silence.
et quand il y a du silence.
the room should be.
la température de la pièce.
you'd spend commuting
that are important to you.
plus importantes.
is ideal for a technology company.
dans les technologies.
but what about everyone else?"
mais qu'en est-il des autres ? »
to build distributed capability.
pour développer la distribution.
to make decisions in the moment,
des décisions dans l'instant,
are having those conversations
n'ont pas accès à ces conversations,
sans comprendre pourquoi.
without understanding the why.
and what you were thinking about.
et ce à quoi vous pensiez.
de prendre la suite,
where you left off.
fuseaux horaires d'interagir.
time zones to interact,
lorsque l'organisation évolue,
as an organization evolves,
autant que possible.
as possible online.
it allows new people to catch up quickly.
les nouveaux peuvent vite tout rattraper.
that help with day-to-day communication,
aidant avec la communication quotidienne,
la gestion de projet.
probably aren't objects anymore.
ce n'est probablement plus des objets.
through your computer.
permettant la collaboration,
tools that enable collaboration,
48 weeks out of the year
48 semaines par an
three or four weeks apart.
pour de courts éclats intenses :
for short, intense bursts.
comes together for a week.
durant une semaine.
everyone's aligned and on the same page,
soit sur la même longueur d'onde
with their colleagues.
avec ses collègues.
le reste du temps,
the rest of the year,
that understanding and empathy.
cette compréhension et empathie.
de créer leur environnement de travail.
to make their own work environment.
has a co-working stipend
a une allocation
towards a co-working space
pour un espace de cotravail
get kicked out of the coffee shop.
pour ne pas être viré d'un café.
de réunir leurs allocations
decided to pool their stipends together
pour un bureau à domicile.
gets a home-office stipend.
in getting the right chair, monitor,
dans une chaise, un écran,
the most productive environment for them.
le plus productif possible.
that are distributed first.
qui sont tout d'abord distribuées.
I predict that 90 percent of companies
que 90% des entreprises
the course of the world
seront d'abord distribuées
or they'll be replaced by those that are.
what you're going to build next,
into global talent,
et de travailler d'où ils veulent
where they feel they should
à ce que vous créez ensemble.
it is that you're creating together.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Matt Mullenweg - DemocratizerMatt Mullenweg is the co-founder of the open-source blogging platform WordPress, the most popular publishing platform on the web, and the founder and CEO of Automattic.
Why you should listen
Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of the open-source blogging platform WordPress, the most popular publishing platform on the web, and the founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce and Jetpack. He also runs Audrey Capital, an investment and research company.
Mullenweg has been recognized for his leadership and success by Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, Inc. Magazine, TechCrunch, Fortune, Fast Company, Wired, University Philosophical Society and Vanity Fair.
Mullenweg is originally from Houston, Texas, where he attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and studied jazz saxophone. In his spare time, he is an avid photographer. Mullenweg splits time between Houston, New York and San Francisco.
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