What if the company powering more than 40% of the internet’s websites had no office at all? Automattic runs a fully remote workforce spread across 75 countries, and it still ships the software behind a huge share of the web.
Remote work is far bigger than working from home, when you set it up right. At Process Street, we’ve been fully remote from the start, so we know the difference firsthand. This guide breaks down Automattic’s remote work framework and shows how your team can reach autonomous asynchronous nirvana.
Remote work isn’t the future of work, it’s the present. The forced experiment of the early 2020s turned into a permanent shift, and a large share of paid working days in the US are still done from home compared to before the pandemic. Today, employees not only embrace remote work, they expect it, and many say they would not be prepared to return to a job that didn’t accommodate for some kind of remote working.
The sentiment towards remote work from an employee perspective is largely positive, with a surprisingly large number of workers saying they have been able to maintain or even improve their productivity while working from home. That’s why, in a post-pandemic world, so many of the remote-first companies who had already established effective fully-remote teams are thriving. In this article, I’ll examine some of the best remote-first teams you could be working for, with a focus on what to look for when considering if a company is truly fully-remote, and how the company culture can reflect a remote-first mentality.
Our homes are no longer just homes, and our offices are no longer just offices. For millions of people, remote work has permanently blurred the line between the two.
Employees have had years to settle into working from home, and they are not the only ones who have had to adapt. Managers and companies have had to rethink how work gets done when the team is spread across cities, time zones, and kitchen tables.
As anyone who’s done it will tell you, being one of the first employees at a tiny company is a huge responsibility. You start with one clear job, then the company grows and the edges of that job start moving every week.
As you settle into your routine tasks, you find you get more and more to do with just as many hours in the day. The workload does not magically shrink, so your best chance is to tighten up your workflow, protect your energy, and build habits that make remote work software feel like leverage instead of another inbox.
The following is a guest contribution from Ionia Sima. Ionia is an architecture student, gamer, writer, and CMO of Digital Web Properties. She has a great interest in big data, SEO, SMM, and video animation. You can follow her on X for more random musings.
Remote team management is no longer a side case for companies with a few contractors. Hybrid and distributed work are now normal operating models, which means leaders have to manage trust, communication, goals, and team chemistry without relying on hallway context. To effectively manage remote teams and avoid project crisis, leaders need a practical way to keep small misunderstandings from becoming crisis situations.
The distance (and potential time zones) between each team member mean that everyone has to be trusted to work on their own without constant supervision. To successfully do that, they need to have as few roadblocks as possible.
Communicating with your team can be a pain in the ass. Keeping track of who said what and when can become a rabbit hole of wasted time and energy, especially if you work remotely with a team and need everyone to develop efficient habits around communication.
Email is still the most popular form of communication between teams, but it is not always the best option. The best email alternatives for team communication are chat and video tools, mobile messaging for quick updates, and project or workflow management tools for decisions, tasks, files, approvals, and proof.
This is a guest post from Katie Stearns, PR and outreach manager at BeeBole Timesheet. She’s a digital marketer who loves monitoring management and leadership trends to create more valuable B2B content for managers. Katie is particularly interested in helping the world become a more productive place.
Remote work is no longer an emergency workaround. It is an operating model leaders choose, tune, and govern. The question for HR teams and executives is not just whether people can work from home. It is whether the business has the policies, communication norms, security practices, and workflows to make the transition work.
We’ll be joined by Erin ImHof, Human Resources Director at CertiK. She’s an HR expert with 17 years of experience across industries like technology, education, and manufacturing.
Erin will share her insights on how to create a welcoming and efficient onboarding experience, especially in remote work environments.
Whether you’re part of a small startup or a large organization, this episode is packed with practical advice to help you improve your onboarding process and set your new hires up for success.
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020, the world completely changed for a period of time. While it’s a time most of us would happily forget, many of the shifts that came about are becoming permanent staples in our society moving forward, particularly with work.
When Covid shut everything down, suddenly those who work in offices found themselves having to adjust to working from home. Some hated it and couldn’t wait to get back to the office, and others loved it, wanting it to become their normal, even post-pandemic.
While remote work peaked in 2020, working from home and hybrid working are still at much higher rates than they were pre-pandemic, and there’s no sign that will change anytime soon.
This sudden increase in remote work has given us the opportunity to measure how remote work compares to onsite work in terms of environmental impact. In a time where the fate of the planet rests on this generation’s shoulders, we need to find as many ways as possible to reduce CO2 emissions.
However, despite popular belief, is working remotely actually better for the planet than working in an office?
In this article, I will attempt to answer that question. We will cover:
