Tweets on remote work 👨💻🏡 & bootstrapping. Founder of @remotiveio, prev. @buffer @google
La Rochelle, France
Joined July 2010
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Dear tech companies,
Employees don't need ping pong tables or beer fridges at work. 🙅♂️🙅♀️
Employees need flexibility to do their best work and enjoy life. For instance, working remotely. 🙋♂️🙋♀️
Please offer trust, not toys. 🙌
Rodolphe Dutel retweeted
how's your internet right now?
fivebars answers from your mac menu bar, live. five green bars = all good. a slow ping response time turns orange, a lost one turns red, and you know before your video call does.
just shipped v1.1 with a new liquid glass menu, it's free, open source 👇
Took us about 10+ years to grow @remotiveio to a 500k+ audience on LinkedIn :)
Rodolphe Dutel retweeted
2026 has already surpassed all of 2025's tech layoffs — in just 8 months.
2026 YTD:
- 126,488 tech employees laid off
- 278 companies
2025:
- 122,606 tech employees laid off
- 278 companies
36% of layoffs attributed to AI this year, up from 16% in 2025. layoffs.fyi
Rodolphe Dutel retweeted
We made this prediction in a video of ours.
TLDR:
1) A few jobs are worth a lot (taste, decisions, deep-knowledge) and a lot of others are a race to the bottom where you compete with outsourcing hubs using AI.
2) AI will lead to a cambrian explosion of niche solutions as you can now service them with small teams
Full video on the channel: youtube.com/watch?v=zKeRUdnc…
Since the launch of ChatGPT, the Philippines offshore industry (8% of country’s GDP) has actually grown much bigger.
Employment in IT and business outsourcing is up by +20% to 1.9m workers and industry revenue is up +30% to $42B.
“AI is helping offshore workers in the Philippines do new, more complex jobs. They are picking up work training AI models or supervising AI agents. Hospitals in America are increasingly outsourcing the checking of insurance eligibility and filing of medical records to Filipinos packing AI tools. Mr Gallimore says more “high-value” work, such as accountancy or engineering, is going offshore in part because “AI is a leveller. You can now teach someone complex stuff quickly” and still get it done more cheaply than in America or Europe.”
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More here: economist.com/asia/2026/08/0…
I built @remotiveio working from café in Paris on Sundays.
Here are my business thoughts on 15 yrs of working from cafés in Paris 🥖 🧵
TL;DR: Remote workers = bad for Paris coffee shops 🤷
My fave speciality coffee shops in Paris:
- Noir (3è)
- Caféothèque (4è)
- Peleton (4è)
- Beans on Fire (11è)
- Institut finlandais (5è)
- Lomi (18è)
- KB (9è)
- 5 Pailles (10è)
- Matamata (2è)
- Comets (11è)
- Magic Carpet (12è)
