Remote Work Resources
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The Daily Remote
By Sara DailyA blog and site by Sarah Daily. The Daily Remote is "committed to helping you work remotely and earn money online so you can pursue a life of travel and location independence." Some of the posts are quite valuable with posts on skills needed to be a remote worker and others showcase and reflect her journey with her partner travelling and working from their RV.
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Remote Work, the Nature and Trend: Survey Roundup
TechStory.in provides a nice roundup of some of the key findings in a survey of more than 250 CXOs on hiring and building remote teams. It's a decent bit of data for those companies trying to get a sense of what challenges there are for hiring remote teams.
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How To Get The Best Out Of Virtual Teams
A simple but clear article that cites several studies on factors that lend to the success of remote teams.
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More Than Half of Companies Surveyed Allow Remote Work, But Fast-Paced Industries Lag Behind
Owl Labs, a video-conferencing provider for hybrid workplaces, surveyed more than 3,000 employees across 23 countries working in multiple industries to get a pulse on how employees around the world perceive remote work opportunities. This article details some of the findings along with some key considerations for organizations and employees around doing remote work right.
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More remote work opportunities? Thank a millennial
By Karen BurnsThis article has a rather misleading title. The opening paragraphs mention that Millennials in management are hiring more remote workers and Millennials are demanding more remote work, however, the key points of the article are actually some great tips for shifting to remote work and working from home.
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Remote Age
By Remote AgeSelf-described as the best place to find and post remote jobs, Remote Age seems to have a good variety of categories including design, management, support, development etc. At the date of posting, Remote Age is displaying 116 jobs from 76 companies.
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Running a profitable, debt-free and remote company for 17 years — lessons from Wildbit
By Niti SharmaA really good interview article with insights from Natalie Nagale, CEO of Wildbit, makers of Postmark App and more.
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Virtual Meetings Have Types
By Gant LabordeA really good article on meeting types for virtual meetings in remote companies. Gig meetings and Jam meetings. Infinite.red seems to have lots of good articles on Remote Working.
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Rocket.Chat
By Rocket.ChatRocket.Chat touts itself as the leading Open Source Slack alternative. It appears to have the basics covered for team communication and collaboration, but also offers a number of enterprise features and live chat options. Its enterprise features seem to be basically around authentication, file sharing and user management.
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Remote working: what developers need to know
Some good notes for developers considering the move to remote work by a senior member in hiring at StackOverflow.
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Why I Work Remotely
Kamil Lelonek created this list of really great remote work resources. Some of them are already here on At Work Apart.
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3 Communication Issues When Working Remotely
Kamil Lelonek is a full-stack developer who has worked with a number of high profile brands and started working remotely 3 years ago and shares what he observed and experienced as problem areas with communication in remote teams. One area I disagree on is his assertion that calls are like private messages and equally as efficient as text.
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Working Remote: A Beginners Guide
By Greg PakesGreg Pakes shares his experience with remote work, what works for him and what tools he's settled on after 20 months of remote work. It's a really great guide for someone starting out with remote work.
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4 Telecommuting Mistakes To Avoid
By Dave ClemensThis article considers some interesting questions many companies may not consider about remote workers and telecommuters relating to labour laws, overtime and travel compensation.
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6 Ways Telecommuting Has Changed the Workplace
By John RamptonJohn Rampton shares how he sees that telecommuting is changing the world of work.
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Ensuring Remote Productivity: How to Work Effectively With People Who Aren’t Sitting Right Next to You
By Laura StackLaura Stack provides a short list of things to consider to help make remote work—especially across extreme timezone differences, work well.
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Remote Life—Kate Kendall
A brief profile of a remote worker and team manager, Kate Kendall, CEO and founder of CloudPeeps. Despite it's short length she offers some smart advice: "Create a routine and stick to it. Get out and about daily, exercise lots and stay connected with your friends and family. Have fun! Have self compassion. Develop a solid self awareness and forgive yourself when you’re less productive."
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The Remote Working Company
The Remote Working Company is another site dedicated to listing jobs for remote work. As is typical of these types of sites, most of the positions listed are for technology based roles, however, upon my initial review, there were positions listed for a HR Manager and a Website Success Manager.
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Those who work from home should work in Maine
The Portland Press Herald has struck upon the view, (one that popped into my head recently) that smaller, more rural regions could solve the jobs shortage by promoting the attractiveness of Maine for remote workers for it's high quality of life and lower costs.
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Fluent 2013: Mike Hostetler, "Remote Working Works!"
By O'ReillyMike Hostetler, CEO of appendTo speaks on operating his company as 100% distributed team.
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Every Time Zone
Every Time Zone couldn't be simpler. It is a one page site/app that lets you see what time it is in most major time zones around the globe based on your local time zone. It has a slider that lets you know what time it will be and has basic work hours visible.
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12 Hidden Tips of Popular Remote Work Tools
A brief slide deck containing 12 tips for tools to effectively work with a remote team or as a remote company.
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Why We (Still) Believe in Working Remotely
A few years has passed since StackExchange co-founder, Jeff Atwood, posted his article on working remotely. VP of Engineering follows up with why they still believe in working remotely. Key points include: why they believe in letting people work full-time from home, what they've learned and how they do it.
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SpareChair Aims To Become The Airbnb Of Coworking
By Laura ShinA look at desk/space sharing site ShareChair. They're seeking to be the AirBnB of co-working. The confusion is that co-working is more than working in a space with other people. This is more of a real-estate play matching office space/desks with remote workers in need.