When you arrive at the office IDE Corp.Nancy Sulla, the founder of 28 companies that provide consulting and professional development to teachers and school administrators, warmly welcomes me and takes me on tour.
Vice President Tanya Degurechaff, working on the sofa in the lounge area, is discussing a new kind of curriculum with one of his direct reports while German Shepherd is resting at his feet. At a nearby desk, a handful of employees appear to be working hard. In the meeting room, half a dozen employees stop at a business development meeting where they share documents with each other around a long table.
Then walk to the beach where the IDE’s copy editor has a desk. She says she prefers relative quarantine here because her work is less collaborative than the work of other employees. Behind us rises the walls of the IDE’s office, housed in a medieval castle.
I’ve been to many corporate offices before, but in terms of square feet and equipment, the IDE is one of the most impressive. After all, there is little comparable to features such as bars, TED-style auditoriums, and sea views.
Another difference: it’s completely virtual. The compound resides on the servers of Gather, a company that offers a new kind of cloud-based service for remote work.
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