Distributed Work


  • Visualizing Diversity at Automattic

    Diversity is essential to Automattic’s culture. As a company with employees from over 100 countries, we believe that embracing different perspectives and backgrounds is key to being creative and productive. Through our different perspectives, we create a happy and safe environment for employees and users. For this reason (and also because it’s right), we strive…

  • How to Organize a Data Book Club at Work

    Why a Book Club? Automattic has a creed that informs everything we do. And the very first part of the creed is “I will never stop learning”.  The first and most important line of the creed means that you’re never finished. There is always more to learn. Your list of unread books is always going to…

  • Women of Datamattic | Menaka Sankaralingam

    Welcome to Women of Datamattic—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to build, maintain, and explore Automattic’s data landscape and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee is the Code Wrangler, Menaka Sankaralingam.

  • Women of Datamattic: Madison Swain-Bowden

    Welcome to Women of Datamattic—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to build, maintain, and explore Automattic’s data landscape and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee is the Data Pagan, Madison Swain-Bowden.

  • Join us at Tumblr!

    During an interview, a candidate recently asked me why, after more than five years, I still work at Automattic. Why? I like the people I work with, and they alone are a good reason to stay. Being globally distributed means I get to work with colleagues from various backgrounds. This helps me understand first‑hand what’s happening…