Listen to this episode of Crossing Borders to learn more about how asynchronous work encourages productivity. An asynchronous setup allows employees to work uninterrupted and yield better results in a less stressful environment. This enables Amir and his team to hire the best from anywhere in the world. Doist’s winning strategy has been to combine remote work with asynchronous collaboration. With a fully distributed team spread across several time zones, Amir explains that real-time communication is almost impossible.

Doist’s superpower: asynchronous communication Learn more about the do’s and don’ts of remote work in this episode of Crossing Borders. Poorly designed setups that try to reproduce the office setting could end up creating a traumatic experience for employees. COVID-19 has forced many companies to switch to remote work, and Amir explains that many are doing it wrong. While most of the world has shifted to remote work, Amir has been doing it for over 14 years. We also discuss the power of asynchronous work and how to build culture in a remote-first company.

In this episode, Amir talks about how he experiences remote work in a post-COVID world and provides tips to those who have only recently transitioned into this modality. This is the second time I sit down with Amir to talk about the future of work. As a remote-work pioneer, Doist’s 80 person team is spread across 30 countries and multiple time zones and has an employee retention rate of over 95%. Todoist is one of the most popular task management tools in the world, while Twist helps teams balance work with collaborative conversations. Amir is the founder and CEO of Doist, a remote-first company that specializes in productivity software and currently offers two products: Todoist and Twist. Although Amir Salihefendic has been an advocate for remote work for over a decade, he never envisioned that the worldwide shift to remote would take place as a result of a pandemic.

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