Global open source software firm GitLab has been "office-less" for nearly a decade. In that time, they've grown to 1,300 employees in 66 countries. The model has been so successful that GitLab literally wrote the book on remote-work best practices (it's 38 pages and has tens of thousands of downloads since March). But GitLab's model doesn't compute for some industries or job functions that can't operate in a permanent, asynchronous, radically transparent environment. And even for those that can,