The trend for fully distributed teams is on the rise – companies like InVision and GitLab have entirely remote employees. Increasingly though, the reaction is positive – usually from people who’ve worked in a distributed team before where departments are split neatly between locations. You won’t get the benefits of working as a distributed team if there’s a barrier between communication. Take care not to make the experience of working in a distributed team end up harming the experience of working in an office. What distributed teamwork has taught usThere’s a lot that we’ve learnt about working well as a distributed team.