The Way forward for Work at Grammarly

Since our founding in 2009, Grammarly has prioritized operational excellence. To speed up our productiveness and innovation, we’ve got adopted a mode of working that we name “remote-first hybrid,” which permits our workforce members to function at their highest potential individually and collectively. 

Our remote-first hybrid mannequin is one other step ahead on our 15+ yr journey of serving to individuals talk and join. Since our starting, in-person interactions have aided our collaboration and ensuing innovation. Initially of the pandemic, we started working absolutely remotely for the well being and security of our workforce and communities. In a single day, we needed to adapt to new methods of working—and speaking. 

By means of this expertise, we’ve discovered and developed. Whereas the pandemic is behind us, the brand new collaboration strategies we adopted stay central to our operations at present. Our shift to extra asynchronous written communication has created many alternatives to make use of—and enhance—our product whereas facilitating higher inside documentation and transparency. 

We even have been in a position to empathize much more deeply with our customers and with individuals in every single place experiencing new communication challenges and wishes. We see an thrilling future forward that blends the ability of digital communication with that of in-person connection. That’s why we’re reshaping our office to welcome and resemble this future.

Our remote-first hybrid mannequin

What will we imply by “remote-first”? Grammarly workforce members can work primarily from house. We acknowledge the various benefits of distant work, like commute financial savings and extra focus time. We additionally consider that the simplest work occurs when all Grammarlians function in the identical mode. By “remote-first,” we imply that our modes of collaboration will assume each workforce member is distant. We consider this helps us construct an equitable office that ensures transparency and equal alternative for every Grammarlian to study, develop, and have the best affect. 

What will we imply by “hybrid”? In-person interplay helps us construct trusting relationships and a welcoming, supportive tradition that fosters innovation. That’s why our working mannequin consists of important face-to-face collaboration amongst groups every quarter—reminiscent of for strategic planning, mission kickoffs, brainstorms, and retrospectives. It additionally integrates a clean move of real-time communication by having every workforce’s members function inside three time zones of each other, to facilitate not less than six hours of overlap every day. 

To facilitate this remote-first hybrid mannequin, we conceive of our workplace areas as “hubs”—locations for our workforce to assemble, join, and work carefully collectively. A daily cadence of in-person collaboration takes place at our hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, Berlin, New York, Seattle, and Vancouver, in addition to a workspace in Kraków. Grammarlians also can work from our hubs anytime year-round if they like. 

We consider this balanced method offers our workforce members one of the best of each worlds: loads of focus time in addition to in-person collaboration that fosters belief, unlocks creativity, and accelerates innovation.

Constructing for—and as—customers

We all know that communication is each vitally essential and astonishingly complicated. Working remotely enhances the thought we put into our personal communication as Grammarlians, and the remote-first hybrid mannequin helps us keep this focus. Our working mannequin retains us in tune with our customers so we are able to meet the communication wants of individuals interacting throughout platforms, professions, and cultures all over the world. 

Since adopting this working mannequin in 2020, we’ve discovered that it sparks product improvements at every stage of the communication journey. One instance of that is communication tone, which may be very tough to refine with out physique language or vocal cues. Working remotely has introduced new context for our tone detector and tone options. We now have seen how essential it’s to facilitate constructive human connections via clever digital communication help. 

Supporting and rising our world workforce

Past aligning our working mannequin with the way forward for communication and work, we’ve all the time targeted on setting our workforce members up for achievement and supporting them each personally and professionally. Each Grammarlian brings one thing distinctive to our workforce, and we attempt to construct an inclusive tradition that fosters everybody’s progress. Our remote-first hybrid mannequin helps these rules.

We’re additionally thrilled that our remote-first hybrid encourages us to develop our workforce and produce aboard gifted individuals who stay additional away from our hubs. Collaborating with workforce members from completely different locations will convey contemporary views and concepts to the desk and can assist us to diversify our workforce in new methods. This can profit Grammarly—and, finally, individuals utilizing our writing assistant worldwide. 

Wanting forward

What has not modified are our EAGER values: moral, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and noteworthy. We stay these intentionally in the whole lot we do—from product improvement to workforce interactions to firm operations—and so they drive how we take into consideration the way forward for work at Grammarly. Our remote-first hybrid mannequin is tailored for a workforce that holds these values carefully and lives them out everyday. 

We’re enthusiastic about what our remote-first hybrid mannequin unlocks for our customers, our product, our workforce, and our mission to enhance lives by bettering communication. Our focus stays on attaining our imaginative and prescient of a complete communication assistant that helps people and companies worldwide transfer work ahead. For those who’d like to hitch us on this journey, please take a look at our open roles to study extra and apply.