Nice writing! I would also put an emphasis on the fact that you HAVE TO make sure people truly share the values that the work is built around around before these practical changes that are designed to increase productivity. Otherwise, principal-agent problem would result in your employees taking advantage of the work-from-home policy in a way that meets their own interests, for instance. It’s also much easier to build a happy and productive, if you’re doing it from scratch. Simply because you would probably hire people that you know first — that’s what happened in our company and we’re doing quite well as our 20+ team is totally driven by the same things. However, it’s a different story when you are hired by a big company and your team is already there; and it’s even more challenging in case of an unhappy & unproductive team sitting there and waiting for you. How would you try to handle this? What if your team sits next to other teams with grumpy faces in a large open space?