Studio
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Three offices, one room
Lisbon, Oslo and Montréal span six hours. The rituals that let four people work like they share a table.
Halfturn has four people in three cities across six time zones. We have never all lived in the same place, and we have stopped treating that as a problem to solve.
Three hours of overlap
Every working day has three hours when Lisbon, Oslo and Montréal are all awake. We keep them for reviews and pairing, and protect the rest of the day for focused work.
Everything else is written down. Decisions live in one shared document per project, so nobody has to be in the meeting to know what changed.
One week a year, one table
Once a year we rent a house somewhere cheap and quiet and work at the same table for a week. It is the most productive week of the year, and it is the reason the other fifty-one work.