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We began working remotely long before the COVID-19 pandemic. That is, long before remote work became mainstream. Although remote work had already been a reality in the IT industry since the advent of the Internet, it had always been a fringe movement, primarily dominated by questionable "outsourcing" business models. Companies were usually operating a remote model in order to cut costs, and not in order to attract the best talent.

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Jakobus, B., Sena, P.H.L., Souza, C. (2022). Remote Work. In: Leadership Paradigms for Remote Agile Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8719-4_10

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