What does this company's remote policy actually mean?

The distinction that costs people a move

Remote-first describes a company whose processes assume nobody is in a room together — decisions get written down because they have to be. Remote-friendly describes an office-centred company that permits remote work, and a permission is a thing that can be withdrawn. Distributed describes where people happen to sit and promises nothing at all.

What it is not:a judgement about the employer, and not a report on how the policy is applied in practice. It reads the words in the text you pasted. A company can write “remote-first” and run standups that assume a shared timezone — the posting will not tell you that, and neither will this.

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