The Remote Show · Tyler Sellhorn, Matthew Hollingsworth

Daphnée Laforest, Distributed Workplace Strategist, Host of Remote First Podcast

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Daphnée Laforest explains why mid-management teams are quitting in remote work environments.

Remote jobs once felt rare. Tyler opens with WeWorkRemotely and introduces Daphne as a distributed workplace consultant focused on remote-first work. Her mission is practical: help executives, people ops teams, and team leaders make remote work something the whole company can actually support. Daphne starts with people. Work should fit around life, she says, and that belief began with individuals before it expanded to companies. She then explains how the Out of Office online conference in 2016 pushed her to think harder about what remote work could do for employers too. Back then, remote hiring felt difficult. Only a few known companies were openly hiring remote workers, and that scarcity shaped her work. If more companies were ready for remote work, more people could find jobs without having to freelance or become entrepreneurs first. Tyler gives her room to tell that origin story, then brings it back to listeners. Daphne treats employee well-being, employee experience, flexibility, empowerment, trust, async communication, and transparent communication as real operating choices. Her business case grows out of that people case: when a company becomes a better place to work, productivity and efficiency can improve too. The episode closes with Tyler thanking Daphne and pointing listeners back to remote jobs and hiring through WeWorkRemotely.

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Remote work is framed as a company design choice, not just an employee preference.

Daphne LaForest makes a solid case for remote-first work by showing how trust, async communication, and better workflows can improve employee experience and widen hiring.

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If you want a calm case for remote-first as a company operating model, this one stays grounded.

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