Posted by peter |

Our company, Percona is even more Virtual than MySQL AB – we have no offices and 100% of staff members work out of their homes (or traveling, onsite with customers etc). We also probably have just couple of cities where more than one Employee lives.

Working as a virtual company has a lot of benefits both for company and employee – office expenses savings, saving time spent commuting, flexible work time, access to more talents but it also has challenges as we typically able to communicate more efficiently with people we personally met and there are also many things which are better made or discussed in the groups. While working for MySQL I learned the great solution to this problem is periodic meetings – company wide or group wide organized both for sake of working together as well as team building as having fun together.
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