Chapter1:HowtoRunaRemote Team Since October 2011, Zapier has grown to over 200 employees. You can read previous versions of this chapter written when our team size was 20andourteamsizewasjust6people,togetafeelforhowourremote teamhasscaled. Manycompanies,suchAutomattic, Buffer, and GitLab are successful as 100% remote teams. Yet it’s still not a common company structure and, unfortu- nately, information about how to set up remote work so that you and your teamcanbesuccessfulisstill scarce. We want to share what we’ve learned so far. Zapier has always run as a remote team. We’ve grown from three founders to over 200 people working remotely in 20 countries. We’ve gotten a lot of questions about how we makeitwork,sothischapterwillexplainthat. Now,ifyouwanttodebatewhat’sbest—remoteworkorco-locatedwork—this