Ep 37 - Shopify's Lawrence Mandel

In this episode, Jeff Robbins interviews Lawrence Mandel of Shopify, who is the Director of Production Engineering. We discuss managing remote teams and team communication within a distributed company.

We talk about:

• Benefits of working in the office with a hybrid team
• Shopify meet-ups
• Managing remote teams
• Overcommunication as a best practice
• Conducting effective remote meetings
• Distributed team scheduling
• Traveling as a remote worker
• Ideal workweek for productive remote workers
• Helping employees set healthy work-life boundaries