
It disrupts our holiday and prevents us from fully switching off, but, well, it’s just the way of the modern world.

We need to reassure ourselves that the company hasn’t imploded in our absence and we haven’t left some awful mess for someone else to clear up. We all check our emails when we’re on holiday, right? Here talk to Laura Ryan, Dropbox’s director of International HR, about he reasons for this decisive shift.

Taking a cue from its own collaboration tools, it has rebuilt its entire organisational structure around real-time communication – and reaped immediate benefits from doing so. As one of the world’s foremost cloud storage specialists, Dropbox has strived to get ahead of the remote working trend since the start of the pandemic.
