The speaker highlights the importance of creating a virtual first workplace by studying remote first companies and integrating in-person interactions for a better human connection experience. They chose to be 90% remote to include a more concentrated dose of human connections. By synthesizing findings from remote first companies, they developed a virtual first way of working called 'virtual first' and open-sourced it for others to use.

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