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Genuine curiosity. What compels a company to write such an extensive handbook about remote work? The company I joined right after covid started was relatively small eng organization ~20 and we're up to 60-70 eng org but the company size is around ~300. There were lots of leadership meetings and communication but that's all we really needed to run a successful remote first company.

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I don’t know for sure. I’d guess:

- Hiring, they want to show how they work for new hires

- PR, they want to present themselves as experts

- lack of trust, or a culture of micromanagement

A side effect is: making the company less agile and its processes more bloated - now you have to read a 1000 page document before you can do anything.

I also didn’t list transparency, if anything I believe the impact is negative: I’m sure some people can ignore the rules and it’s unclear who and when.

The desire to maintain control (or the illusion thereof) over its employees.

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