Add update to the remote work post.

Author: knadh

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 #### Afterword
 
 And then, a furious [Karan](https://mrkaran.dev), our resident keyboard warrior (who is actually very adept at remote work in his defence), typed out "bUt MuH AsYnC" on an overly loud mechanical keyboard. His fury was not because async did not work out for us, but because every keystroke of his suffered from a crippling 600ms lag thanks to his overengineered "homelab" running on a RaspberryPi connected to a 4G dongle tied to a bamboo pole sticking out of his bedroom window, routing network traffic through strategically placed Tailscale nodes around the world. A contraption, for which, to this day, he has been unable to give us a convincing explanation.
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+### Update (September 2024)
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+Every August, we conduct structured 1:1 conversations and reflections within the team, the culmination of many natural the ad-hoc 1:1 conversations that occur throughout the year. It has also been a year since we transitioned back to working from the office--three days in the office, two days at home. This time around, ~90% of the team reported that mentally, they are doing well, or at least okay. This is strikingly different from last year when ~80%, including me, reported not being in a good place mentally. Over the course of this year, mentally, I have also been in a much better place. Within the team, I have had to do practically no counselling conversations, which were almost a weekly occurrence in the past year. Our collective productivity has increased significantly and our interpersonal relationships are in much healthier place. The spontaneous, natural, in-person conversations and cohesion, as they always had for us, are resulting in unplanned, exciting engineering and product breakthroughs. The vast majority of the team report significant improvements in their personal and work lives, and that is indeed visible in many ways. We are laughing, having fun, and hacking substantially more. A recent discussion we had in the office has finally pushed me over the edge into hacking and assembling a serious "homelab" server. After years of meme-ing Karan, I am becoming the meme. Karan wins. Reminiscing Oppenheimer, *"I am become Karan, the builder of homelabs."*
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+At Zerodha, our internal lessons now have a big body of evidence to go along. Long-term remote work requires specific remote-first skill sets and DNA from day one, which, like most other organizations, we do not possess for various historical reasons. So, we follow the optimal, least-wrong model that works for us---the organisation and its people.

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