Remote Work Articles
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Lessons Learned: 1,000 Days of Distributed at Atlassian
By AtlassianAtlassian compiled a 40-page report on the lessons they've learned in building their company into Team Anywhere over the past 3 and 1/2 years. On the one hand, this is obviously a part of their recruitment strategy as it showcases the positives of working from anywhere at Atlassian but it's also honest about the findings that require constraints and rules as necessary. This resource is not paywalled and doesn't require any email to read it. It's free for you to download and share. It's definitely worth a read.
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On Working Remotely
By Jeff AtwoodJeff Atwood offers his reflection on working remotely. This article is from 2010. It would be interesting to know what his view is now.
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The Future of Work is Already Here
By Sean KimSean Kim writes on the Sketchfab blog about the benefits of working remotely and 5 core business strategies for making it work.
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How to Optimize Slack for Remote Teams
A brief article that offers a few very good recommendations for making Slack work better for your remote team. It probably is a better article for teams with more than 20 employees due to some of the suggestions for getting to know your colleagues. I like the suggestion of making sure to complete your Slack Profile.
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Workers Without Borders: Managing the Remote Revolution
A brief article from Entrepreneur.com on how to effectively manage remote workers including onboarding and bringing them into the company culture.
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My Ideal Day as a Remote Programmer: Taking Charge of Your Daily Routine
By Colin RossColin Ross of Buffer shares his tips for productive programming on a remote team.
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How to Make the Case to Your Boss for Remote Working
For employees, a good article on how to approach your employer to shift to working remotely.
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Will Half Of People Be Working Remotely By 2020?
Laura Vanderkam assesses whether a the assertion by 34% of the business leaders at the Global Leadership Summit in London (in 2014) said more than half of their company’s full-time workforce would be working remotely by 2020.
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The 25 Best Sites For Finding Remote Work
A fairly good list of 25 websites sites where you can find remote work, broken down by categories such as: remote work specific, tech, freelance/contract and more.
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End of the Office: The Quiet, Grinding Loneliness of Working From Home
This piece by Simon Usborne is a really great look into working from home in light of the pandemic for some who may have felt the office was more than just a place where work was done. In addition, the article reflects on how organizations are trying to improve the experience of working from home.
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24 Ideas That Will Change The Way Your Remote Team Works
By Paul JunA collection of 24 hand selected articles on remote work, remote teams, tools and strategies put together by the team at HelpScout.
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Using firefighting to prove that remote work works
By Amando AbreuA brief but well written piece on how if fire fighting can and is done remotely, that nearly all knowledge and creative work can be done as well. It also covers some of the excuses and real reasons many companies have for not doing remote.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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10 Stats That'll Change the Way You Think About Remote Work
By Ade OlonohFlock co-founder, Ade Olonoh, shares a list of 10 statistics that support the benefits of allowing or embracing remote work. These are fairly common cited reasons for organizations to adopt remote work and telecommuting but it's a good reference piece for those hoping to convince their company to take the plunge.
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Don't Let Remote Work Kill Your Culture Of Camaraderie
By Chris BeyersA short post on making sure that camaraderie and socialization is part of the habits your company has to ensure a thriving engaged distributed team.
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Committing to Remote Work
Michael Mattax shares his first experience with remote work and how that isolated him into feeling like a contractor as well as some tips for ensuring your teams stay engaged and connected both collaboratively and socially.
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This Startup Lets You Travel and Work Remotely for an Entire Year
By Annie DailyAnnie Daly, contributing editor for Yahoo Travel, interviews Remote Year founder Greg Caplan about it's origin and making a company built on remote work and global travel a reality.