The Lot Goes Remote
Things have changed dramatically over the past several months, both in terms of our personal lives and our workplace experience.
Previously, working from home was the exception. For Lot Sixteen, like many other companies, it has become the rule. And we think it’s increasingly likely to be the new normal. (As if anything we’re living through is even remotely normal.)
Like many other professional service businesses, we have been addressing the question of how to work most efficiently and effectively in our remote settings. In some ways, not much has changed at all. We have regular check-ins built around client projects, and a lot of smaller client team conversations in between. And while our Slack message volume has increased dramatically, our days are still spent focused on hitting our marks and doing what we said we were going to do, for our clients and for each other.
If anything, the connections, conversations, and collaboration that fuel our client work are stronger and more effective than ever before. The personal interactions are harder to replicate online, but we’ve found that taking the time to find out what everyone is doing each weekend, what binge-worthy tv we’ve watched or which tracks we can’t stop playing helps us stay connected and able to share so much of what we loved when we all sat together in the same room.
Business is good and every one of us is grateful to have stable jobs and to work for a company that doesn’t require us to risk our health for our paycheck. Improbably, we have onboarded 6 new employees since our work has moved remote: Kellie Donnelly, Audrey Cooling, Chelsea Baltes, Nick Dias, Luca Amayo, and Alli Beard. Growth for a business like ours is good, and we’re fortunate to have the clients to support bringing on so many talented new people.
Admittedly, onboarding a new slate of employees during a fully remote work period is…. odd. We have a number of employees who are working incredibly well together but who have never physically met each other. That might not be weird for a multinational corporation, but it doesn’t usually happen in a start-up company with fewer than 20 employees. We are proud to offer such rich diversity in our “satellite office” locations.
From Utah to South Carolina, Virginia to Maine, Lot Sixteen has (in rapid time) grown beyond just our flagship Washington, DC location…here’s to growth, health and connections - remote or not.
We’ll continue to keep you updated on things going on at Lot Sixteen here in our new blog. For now, all of us here at Lot Sixteen hope you and your loved ones stay safe and healthy.
