Remote Work

Know Your Team

How to build social connection in a remote team

Virtual team building is tough. Here are 7 ways you can build social connection in a remote team, even from afar.

Ambition & Balance - by Doist

Why We're Betting Against Real-Time Team Messaging Apps Like Slack

Group chat apps like Slack are built for a specific kind of communication — one-line-at-a-time, real-time conversations. This …

Forbes

He Built A $1 Billion Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely

Sid Sijbrandij knows a thing or two about building, scaling and even walking away from companies. His current venture, …

CNN

Tokyo commuters told to work from home to avert Olympic transport nightmare

More than half a million people in Tokyo are being asked to work from home as part of a trial scheme aimed at tackling …

Twitter

The difference between digital backpackers, workation tourists, digital staymads, and remote workers

In almost all discussions about remote work I have to first explain the difference between:

• digital backpackers
• workation …

SlideShare

Engineering Management in Remote teams

The opening talk of the Running Remote Conference 2019. I tried to explain what makes distributed teams and remote work …

Reddit

Do you find being a digital nomad more appealing than being a remote worker?

Most DNs I see on here travel while picking up freelance work. This used to be a goal of mine as well. But being a remote …

Quartz

It's time to factor remote work into our urban planning

If we really want to build a sustainable future for cities, then government and business leaders need to shift focus and …

Inside Design Blog

Balancing family and work with Alicja Colon in episode 4 of "Greater Than Avatars"

The trouble with working from home is honoring work-life balance, and Alicja’s not afraid to talk about that …

Reddit

Do you feel lonely while remote working?

I think you feel lonely when you do not have meaningful social interactions, which might naturally happen to remote workers. …

GitPrime Blog

Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

We held a panel discussion with three of today’s top engineering leaders to discuss approaches and lessons learned in …

Linum Labs

Presence-based vs output-based work systems

Why I believe that the output-based system leads to better results than the traditional 9 to 5 based on a deeper dive into …

Distributed.blog

Is remote work 'Bull***t'?

We believe that distributed work is great for many reasons, and will eventually replace most traditional office environments. …

upside

The "future of work" is here... so why aren't more companies remote-first?

Maybe part of our collective problem with remote work is that we’re always talking about it in the future tense. But …

Harrison Harnisch

Effective Syncs With Distributed Teams

Over the past few years I’ve participated or lead syncs in fully distributed, partially distributed and centrally …

The Outline

You should dress like a lunatic if you work from home

However! There is one way to offset the bad parts of working from home and it does not involve getting a WeWork membership or …

Deel Community

The Benefits and Challenges of a Remote Worker: Q&A with the SafetyWing Team

SatefyWing was created by digital nomads, a fully distributed team whose mission is to help other remote workers stay safe …

Medium

Coffee Shops, Office Space, and... the Future of Remote Work

While remote work provides benefits to both employees and companies — flexibility, higher productivity, lower cost — the …

Viktor's ramblings

A Decade of Remote Work

So what have I learned over this decade of working and running remote teams? Let’s dive in.

Distributed.blog

WordPress Showed Me the Power of Distributed Work. It's Time to Share What We've Learned.

How can we work better and smarter in the decades to come—and what’s the moral imperative driving our desire to change? …

Trinity Takei

Everything you Ever Wanted to Know About Remote Work, Part 0: The Dark Side

First, let’s start with a prologue: what challenges remote workers/digital are facing? This is the single most asked …

Entrepreneur

Want to Improve Your Company's Diversity? Go Remote

Look at a candidate’s work first. Delay the face-to-face interview until later, to avoid age, gender or ethnic bias.

Hacker News

As managers, how do you make sure your distributed team is aligned?

We use Slack for internal comms, but it’s used mostly for chit-chat conversations and real-time issues. Is there a …

DEV

Going Remote: My 5 Expectations

I think I’m going into it eyes open, but I want to document my hopes and expectations about remote life going into it.

Reddit

Working from home is not that great without something to look forward to at the end of the day

Been thinking how a lot of the payoff from leaving the office at the end of the day is simply getting back home. But now that …

Building Creative Market

This guy started working from home, and you'll never believe what happened next.

I don’t know what it’s like for everybody at every remote job, but when a job-hunting friend asked me recently …

Inc.

Google Spent 2 Years Researching What Makes a Great Remote Team. It Came Up With These 3 Things

In a quest to create the perfect remote team, Google researchers spent two years studying more than 5,000 employees. …

Quartz

The key to loving your job in the age of burnout

But when we talk about “meaningful work,” what do we actually mean? Negotiating peace treaties, growing food, …

Ambition & Balance - by Doist

How to Ask to Work From Home (With Exact Scripts & Templates to Aid Your Negotiation)

Follow these 9 steps to secure a remote work arrangement even in the most skeptical of organizations.