Remote work

Notes

• Remote work tip: Leave a Zoom open that anyone on the team can drop by during some predictable hours. No specific agenda.
• Running a Remote Company ≠ Working From Home. It means the freedom to set your own work hours, work from anywhere (cafes, travel, co-working) and live where you want.
• Normalize recess for adults. Walking away from my computer to explore the neighborhood at some point between 1p - 3p has done more for me than any corporate mental health app ever.
• Remote work rewards writers.
• Companies mandating company-wide time off days, where EVERYBODY at the company takes the same day off (hoping to help with burnout/pandemic breathing room) is helpful.
• Just because you work from home, doesn’t mean you have to be available 24/7 for work.
• Remote work has tons of benefits, but a dangerous disadvantage that isn't talked about enough is that the internet can start to replace your real-life social circles. Really important to combat that, or you can start taking things here way too seriously.
• Unless you are regularly meeting up in the office in person, only time zone matters. And then once you go outside the same time zone (+/- 3 hours), you need to design everything for full async.
• Firm-wide remote work causes a shift to async communication (not more meetings) and makes workers’ collaboration network more siloed.
• I don’t know if I would ever be able to readjust back to the non-remote-first office work. It just feels natural to hop to a plane (train, car) and get somewhere without skipping a beat of your work. To have it safely detached from the matters of physical presence and geography.
• The third founder with a remote team sharing the same story: An engineer they hired did great on the interviews but worked unexplainably slow day to day. When pairing: they worked fast. They stopped pairing: slowed down. Turns out, the person had a second job in all cases.
• Steve Jobs and I became close friends. We went for long walks at Castle Rock State Park, shared meals and wide-ranging conversations about life and design. We bounced ideas off each other. Sometimes he would start a conversation with "Here's a crazy idea...", and the idea would go back and forth and evolve into a serious discussion, or occasionally a workable design. Steve listened to me and challenged me. His support at Apple allowed me to made a difference in the world
• Linear does nice all team bake/cook together over zoom once a quarter
• A single in person meeting with a coworker brought me closer to them than a year of weekly zoom 1:1s. claiming there’s no difference feels delusional to me.
• Meetings create alignment. The minute after a meeting you start drifting. Drift is higher in low-trust environments. Too many (long) meetings are a sign of dysfunctional organizations. Either there is no trust, no alignment, or neither.
• If calls and meetings would work I'd do them but it's always chit chat and after call absolutely nothing practical happens. A chat message is much faster/better/async.
• The eight hour work day and two day weekend is obsolete. We should expect at most a six hour work day and at least three days off for every four days of work.

Links

• Remote Habits
• Remote Teams
• Basecamp doesn’t employ anyone in San Francisco, but now we pay everyone as though all did
• Remote Jobs Spreadsheet
• Teleport App - Get an overview of your group's locations, timezones and working hours.
• Ask HN: What are the biggest challenges preventing startups from hiring remote? - Mitchell Hashimoto's comment was great
• Thoughts on Remote Communication
• How to travel and work as a remote software developer (2019)
• How remote work may impact our brains and what to do about it (2019)
• Ask HN: Sources of remote dev work with minimal human interaction? (2019)
• HN: WeWork Files for IPO (2019)
• Why aren’t more companies remote-first? (HN)
• Why Everyone Loves Remote Work (2019) (HN)
• Ask HN: Cons of Being on a Remote/Distributed Team? (2019)
• Sid Sijbrandij: “People don’t want to commute; they just don’t want to miss out” (2019) (HN)
• Asynchronous Communication: The Real Reason Remote Workers Are More Productive (2019) (HN)
• Lobsters: What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work (2019)
• NoHQ - Learn how to build a great remote team.
• RemoteHub - Remote Jobs and Companies.
• Remote only manifesto
• Breather - Modern workspace, all to yourself - for hours, days or months.
• My experience as a remote worker (2019)
• The remote worker’s guide to self-care (2019)
• Remote - Take care of global payroll, benefits, compliance and taxes, so you can focus on your people.
• Firstbase - All-in-one provisioning for companies to set up their remote workers at home.
• Open Offices Inhibit Remote Work (2020) (Lobsters)
• Why fully distributed is by far the best way to run a software team (2020)
• GitLab's Guide to All-Remote
• Ask HN: Recommendations for Working from Home? (2020)
• Work in the Time of Corona (2020)
• Guide to Managing Remote Teams
• NoOffice - Definitive guide to working remotely. (Code)
• Remote work starter guide for employees: how to adjust to work-from-home
• Holloway Guide to Remote Work - Comprehensive Guide to building, managing, and adapting to working with distributed teams.
• Remote work wiki
• Awesome Remote Work
• Homenauts – Resources for explorers who stay at home during Covid-19 (HN)
• Our list of free software for remote work (HN)
• Awesome Remote Job
• Remote Work - a guide to ensuring quality video conferencing (2020)
• Established remote companies
• Pangian - Find the best curated & verified remote jobs at reputable companies.
• HN: Half of American workers would rather work from home forever (2020)
• Nomad Tips - Mailing list for sharing tips and resources for digital nomads. (Code)
• Andreas Klinger on How To Go Remote (2020)
• REMOTE Livestream Q&A with Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson (2020)
• HN: Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever (2020)
• What you think is bad about remote work, can, well, actually be good (2020)
• There - Talk within your remote team. Hold a key and talk to a teammate anytime, while respecting their focus.
• Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live? (2020)
• Software will eat software in a remote-first world (2020) (HN)
• Beyond Remote (2020) (HN)
• [Techniques for setting boundaries around your remote job (2019)]https://capnfabs.net/posts/techniques-for-setting-boundaries-around-your-remote-job/)
• 27 Tips For Running Successful Remote Meetings (2020)
• Written communication is remote work super power (2020) (HN)
• Remote First at Quora (2020) (HN)
• 10 stages of working remotely (2020)
• Remote Year - Work and Travel Abroad Programs for Professionals.
• Ask HN: How do you deal with social isolation while working from home? (2020)
• Ask HN: Should a remote employee’s salary be tied to their physical location? (2020)
• Remote Workers - Hire from a global talent pool of remote workers.
• Ask HN: Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving? (2020)
• Remote work predictions (2020)
• Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when WFH? (2020)
• Remoteleaf - Receive hand-picked remote jobs delivered straight to your inbox.
• Why do so many people want us back in the office? (2020) (HN)
• Remotive - Remote Jobs in Programming, Support, Design and more. (Becoming Remotive.com)
• Remote Technology Jobs by Standard Resume
• Getting noticed as a remote engineer (2020) (HN)
• Slite Remote Coaching - Schedule a 30 min chat to untangle remote work.
• We Work Remotely - Remote jobs in design, programming, marketing and more.
• RemoteOK - Remote Jobs in Programming, Design, Sales and more. (Open Startup) (HN)
• FreshRemote.work - Fresh Remote Jobs Anywhere.
• Remote Work Jobs - Simple remote work jobs board.
• Remotely People - Worldwide Remote jobs in design, marketing, programming.
• Workaline.com - Remote job board.
• Remote team bonding ideas (2020)
• onsite.fun - Online activities for remote teams.
• Remote Clan - Connect with remote workers to shape the future of work. (News Feed)
• Building Team Culture, Gitlab-Style (2020)
• To find great remote employees, prioritize candidates with strong writing skills (2020) (HN)
• The guide on 1-on-1 meetings for remote teams (2020)
• Teamflow - Feel like a team again. Virtual office for your team to hang out in.
• Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home? (2021)
• Why Working from Home Will Stick (HN)
• Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH? (2021)
• Ask HN: How to stay focused and motivated working from home? (2021)
• Working from Home at Monzo - One Year Later (2021)
• A look into the work from home experience (2021)
• The Future of Remote Work is the Opposite of Lonely (2021)
• I hope work from home continues (2021) (HN)
• Best Practices for Remote Software Engineering (2021) (HN)
• 2021 GitLab Remote Work Report
• Arc - Easiest way to find remote developer jobs.
• Predictions on remote work (2021)
• Ask HN: How to negotiate continuing to work remotely? (2021)
• Remotebear - Best remote jobs at leading tech companies. (Code) (Article)
• What if remote work didn’t mean working from home? (2021) (HN)
• Remotists.com - Top Remote jobs every week.
• Top 100 Remote Jobs
• Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home (2021) (HN)
• Ask HN: What hardware/furniture/hack greatly improved your WFH setup? (2021)
• The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains (2021) (HN)
• The future of the office is the clubhouse (2021)
• I went to the office for the first time. I hated it (2021) (HN)
• I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time (2021) (HN)
• Effective remote meetings (2021)
• Ways of Working (2020)
• 8 ideas we use for building a great culture in a distributed team (2021)
• Living on a ranch (2021)
• Ask HN: Why a 4-day workweek don't get traction or a major movement? (2021)
• Remote Job Benefit Ideas
• State of Digital Nomads (HN)
• Polar Signals Remote Work Benefits
• HN: Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely (2021)
• WorkAdventure - Collaborative web application (virtual office) presented as a 16-bit RPG video game. (Code)
• Volley - Async video messaging built for remote work.
• Best way to structure income when switching tax residency often (2021)
• Remote-first work is taking over the rich world – research hints at why (2021) (HN)
• Productive tools for remote teams
• High Fidelity Remote Communication (2021)
• The Future of Work at Cloudflare (2021)
• Remote work will break the US monopoly on global talent (2021) (HN) (Tweet)
• The Cities Best Facilitating Remote Work: A Global Index (2021) (HN)
• The Rise of the Decentralized Startup (2021) (HN)
• Ask HN: Has remote work made you move to a new location or consider it? (2021)
• Company retreat/offsite location startups
• Ask HN: Good books on managing a hybrid/remote team? (2022)
• Ask HN: Has remote work made you procrastinate more? (2022)
• How to spot great remote jobs (HN)
• Ask HN: Is Hybrid Working a Ruse? (2022)
• Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere (2022) (HN)
• Starlink for RVs (HN)
• Ask HN: How is the remote vs in-person trend looking? (2022)