Business Travel’s Fresh Start in the New World of Remote Working
Photo Credit: Remote working enables people to travel more, with less judgement, according to GitLab's head of remote. Unsplash / Kristin Wilson
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The pandemic has pushed many companies into new ways of working, but there’s a lot of work ahead to transition and realize all the benefits — traveling included.
As well as giving employees more flexibility and freedom, business travel also gets a makeover in the next phase of remote working.
But that nirvana is still a way off because even after coronavirus, companies will be need to be clinical in their transition to remote working.
That's according to Darren Murph, head of remote at GitLab. Speaking at the Skift Global Forum opening event on Monday, he said the software services company wrote the "playbook" on distributed workforces, several months before the pandemic began.
"We have over 40 guides on how we do everything, we’re an open core company so all of that information is open sourced," Murph said. "I began building that, and then Covid happened
