Google asked 5,600 employees about how they work and found that its happiest, most productive teams do 3 things differently

Google’s 10,000 employees are spread across over 150 cities. Google has offices in more than 50 countries. Two in five Google teams include employees working from different locations.

It means lots of coordination and logistics involving meetings on video chat. Veronica Gilrane, the manager of Google’s People Innovation Lab, wanted to learn more about the productivity and effectiveness of Google’s distributed team model.