Take the free Distributed Work Habits test online. Thirty forced-choice pairs and eight familiarity questions read four working habits that cost more when the team is distributed: written handover, self-reported visibility, escalation speed, and timezone coordination.
The Distributed Work Habits test is a 38-question JobCannon-built questionnaire about four habits that get expensive when a team is spread across time zones. Async Handover is whether your writing survives your absence. Self-Visibility is whether people can tell what you are doing without asking. Escalation Speed is how fast you turn being stuck into a question someone can answer. Timezone Coordination is whether you plan around other people’s clocks.
Thirty of the questions are pairs. You pick the statement more like you, and both statements describe something a competent professional does — there is no losing side to avoid. That format is deliberate: an agree/disagree scale on habits like these invites everyone to agree, so the pairs make you spend a choice instead. The last eight questions ask whether you have used specific ways of working; three of the eight name practices that do not exist, which is a standard way of noticing when a questionnaire is being answered generously rather than accurately.
What this test is not: it has no norming sample and no criterion study behind it, so it reports how often you chose each habit out of the twelve chances you had, never a percentile and never a single overall score. It is a starting point for a conversation about how someone works, not a filter to reject anyone with.
Async Handover: whether your written work stands up while you are offline
Self-Visibility: whether your state is legible without anyone having to ask
Escalation Speed: how quickly being stuck becomes a question someone can answer
Timezone Coordination: whether you plan around other people’s working hours
A band per habit out of twelve chances — no total score, no percentile
Whether the familiarity block suggests the answers were generous rather than accurate
Which of these two is more like the way you actually work?
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Take the Distributed Work Habits AssessmentTake the free Distributed Work Habits test online. Thirty forced-choice pairs and eight familiarity questions read four working habits that cost more when the team is distributed: written handover, self-reported visibility, escalation speed, and timezone coordination.
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