Remote Work Resources
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Remote Work Advocates Warn Companies About COVID-19 Work-From-Home Strategies
A really good article on the timely surge in organizations embarking on a mass experiment with remote work and what problems to look out for and how to prevent them.
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We Work Remotely
By Tiny BoardsA site promoting remote-jobs in tech, saas, design and related fields including customer support and success. Originally by the makers of Basecamp, now part of the Tiny Boards family of boutique job boards.
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Running Remote Conference
Running Remote claims to be the "World’s Largest Remote Work Event". The 2020 Conference will be April 25-26 in Austin, Texas.
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When Remote Work Doesn’t Work — and How to Make Sure It Does
Citrix's Chief People Officer, Donna Kimmel shares a good description of how a well-intentioned, shift to remote and work-from-home can go wrong and what to do to get it right.
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Remote Working from Red Shift
By Infinite.redRemote working articles from the team at Infinite.red.
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Running A Company Remotely Is Possible But Not Easy
By Danny ForestThis is a first-person account of best practices and lessons learned about running a remote company by entrepreneur Danny Forest. It contains some practical tips. One of the most valuable parts about this speaks of trust. He trusts his team to be able to make decisions.
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Work in Startups
Where startups meet rockstar employees. This link contains listings that offer some type of remote work. Your mileage may vary.
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Talentboard.me
A website to get find remote work talent from around the web. Submit your search criteria and await CVs in your inbox. It looks like this site is in early days but it may be worth checking out. Of course, they have a place to post your CV as well.
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ZipRecruiter Remote Jobs
By ZipRecruiterZipRecruiter is growing into one of the largest job sites out there. This link should get you to the latest remote jobs in their listings.
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How to Keep Remote Workers Engaged
This is a brief article, but it contains some clear advice to help keep remote team members engaged at work.
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Figma: the collaborative interface design tool
By FigmaFigma appears to be a slick, browser-based interface design tool that is to design as Google Docs is to writing.
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Researchers have settled the question of whether it’s better to work from home or the office
Quartz's Sarah Kessler looks at results of a 2014 Stanford research paper to in the light of a portion of IBM's workforce moving into the office and contrasting that with Automattic's closure of their offices and going 100% remote. It depends…
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Minnesota a National Leader in Telecommuting Trend
An interesting piece from the Star Tribune on the impact on remote work, a program to help companies transition to remote work and there are also studies on traffic affect of remote work.
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The HubStaff Blog (Remote Category)
By HubStaffThe HubStaff team seem to be building a huge set of resources and share their stories on building and managing remote teams. Most articles are very well written and you could spend days digging into new tools, ideas and learning what did and didn't work.
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Remote Team Management: The Definitive Guide to Building a Remote Team
By Dave NevogtHubStaff founder, Dave Nevogt, authored this book on building a remote team. I've not read it but looks like it could be an helpful tool for people looking shortcut their way to success.
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Canadian Employers Play Catch-up on Tech
This piece in the Globe and Mail exposes that Canadian companies are behind the times when it comes to remote-work and flex-work enabling technologies and what they need to consider to catch up. There are a couple of interesting survey results with regard to the readiness and desire for remote work.
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10 Tips for Effective Collaboration in Remote Teams
A brief listicle of 10 tips for effective remote work. This one specifically covers some important items. I especially think the first 3 are critical to successful remote working teams and 4 is important for the social aspects of work.
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On Remote Work
William Durand describes how he and his partner, Julien Maupetit, of TailorDev, set out to create their business from the ground up as a fully remote business. It's an interesting perspective with tasty tool recommendations.
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Remote+ Tools
An exhaustive list of 110+ remote work tools from Peter Legierski. Some usual suspects here for sure. He also offers up a PDF with 119 more tools not included on his web list (as an incentive for you to sign up to his newsletter).
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Remote Work at 37signals
By BasecampA video from 37Signals (now Basecamp) on how they work remotely and the people who make it possible.
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2 Companies that Went from an Office to Working Remotely
A look at two companies, Toggl and PeopleG2 and how they made the decision and transition to go remote.
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When To Slack And When To Hold Back: Tips For Better Team Communication
Trello VP of Marketing, Stella Garber, shares some lessons to ensure smooth and positive communications that leave room for people to be productive rather than constantly distracted.
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4 Myths Debunked About Employees Working Remotely
Yes, it's a listicle but it's a tight and insightful piece that busts some commonly held management myths, in Entrepreneur, by David and Carrie McKeegan.
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MeisterTask
By MeisterTaskAn interesting looking project management and collaboration tool from MeisterLabs that takes you from their flagship, MindMeister, mind mapping software for planning and allows you to migrate assigned tasks to collaborators to their Kanban-style project board.
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How To Hire And Manage Remote Employees
FlexJobs founder and CEO, Sara Sutton Fell, shares three very key elements to hiring and managing remote employees. Essentially, hire the right people, create a hiring process for hiring remote employees and manage by outcomes not attendance (which we should be doing anyway).
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5 Steps to Making Remote Working a Reality in Your Business
A short deck showing the steps necessary transitioning companies to remote work by Graham Harris of The Daisy Group.
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9 Tips for Landing a Remote Job
By Tim MetzTim Metz failed to get his ideal gig working for productivity powerhouse, Evernote. He realized his CV was part of the problem. He since started his own product company and while reviewing job applications, he noticed patterns emerging. He distilled these patterns into 9 tips to increase your chances of getting noticed and hired.
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Collaboration Superpowers
Collaboration Superpowers is a great looking reference for anyone seeking to build a great remote team. The site "collects stories, tips and lessons learned for setting up effective distributed teams." This site, by Lisette Sutherland, will also be home to the forthcoming book, "Stories of Remote Teams Doing Great Things."