7geese - Remote Work Best Practices

Remote Work

Best Practices

WORKING REMOTELY…Working remotely…

WORKING REMOTELY… FROM TORONTOWorking remotely from Toronto…

Working remotely from Toronto…Help me transitioning…

REMOTE WORK

• When employee does not commute to a central place of work

• Distributed teams is beyond remote work

• 1 in 5 workers in the world work remotely

• 1 in 10 from home

• Never has been more easy to work remotely

BENEFITS FOR EMPLOYEES?

BENEFITS FOR EMPLOYEES?

• Organize your time

• Avoid interruptions at the office

• Reduce commuting time

• Saving money

Organize your time

Avoid interruptions

BENEFITS FOR EMPLOYEES?

• Organize your time

• Avoid interruptions at the office

• Reduce commuting time

• Saving money

Reduce commuting time

BENEFITS FOR COMPANIES?

BENEFITS FOR COMPANIES?

• Save money

• Access talents everywhere in the world

• Employee satisfaction & retention

• Timeless & Flexibility

• Cut absenteeism

• Force creation of processes

• Expose bad workers

Save some money

BENEFITS FOR COMPANIES?

• Save money

• Access talents everywhere in the world

• Employee satisfaction & retention

• Timeless & Flexibility

• Cut absenteeism

• Force creation of processes

• Expose bad workers

BENEFITS FOR COMPANIES?

• Save money

• Access talents everywhere in the world

• Employee satisfaction & retention

• Timeless & Flexibility

• Cut absenteeism

• Force creation of processes

• Expose bad workers

BENEFITS FOR COMPANIES?

• Save money

• Access talents everywhere in the world

• Employee satisfaction & retention

• Timeless & Flexibility

• Cut absenteeism

• Force creation of processes

• Expose bad workers

DISADVANTAGES

DISADVANTAGE

DISADVANTAGE

• Feeling lonely

• Cabin Fever

• Losing contact with the team

• Can’t walk up to somebody’s desk

• Out of the loop

• Over work

• Distractions

• Less control for managers

DISADVANTAGE

DISADVANTAGE

DISADVANTAGE

• Feeling lonely

• Cabin Fever

• Losing contact with the team

• Can’t walk up to somebody’s desk

• Out of the loop

• Over work

• Distractions

• Less control for managers

DISADVANTAGE

• Feeling lonely

• Cabin Fever

• Losing contact with the team

• Can’t walk up to somebody’s desk

• Out of the loop

• Over work

• Distractions

• Less control for managers

BEST PRACTICES

• Create remote work policy

• Overlap in working hours

• Attend Meetings

• Data access and security

• Set communication rules

• Communicate often

• Be aware of culture gap

• Meetings

BEST PRACTICES

• Employee daily routine

• Plan you day

• Have self discipline

• Communicate daily

• Establish goals

• Connect with people

• Gather the team

• Allow remote work to employee you trust

BEST PRACTICES

• Tools

• Email/Chat => slack

• Video conference: skype, sqwiggle, screenhero

• Screensharing => screenhero

• Wiki, documentations => confluence

• Continuous Integration => Github, Circle CI

• Dashboard => Geckoboard

• Performance => 7geese

Telerobots

COMPANIES ALLOWING REMOTE WORK

• Basecamp, wrote “Remote: Office hours not required”

• Buffer

• IBM

• Threehouse

• Zapier

• Automattic

• != Yahoo

BASECAMP

BUFFER

• Have a chatter rooms in Hipchat/Slack

• Self improvement hackpad

• Pair calls

• Weekly Masterminds calls

• Weekly updates mix professionals and personal achievements

GITHUB

• Mini summits & video chat

• Don’t shortcut communications, Be human 😀

• Iterate your remote work process

• Ego is out

• Hours are “not really tied to coming to the office and let me see your face. It’s all based on doing

quality work,”

GITHUB

AUTOMATTIC

AUTOMATTIC

ZAPIER

• Created the Guide to Remote Work

• Hire people you trust and who can write

• Weekly hangouts

• Pair buddies

• Monthly 1-on-1s

• Accountability

• Company retreats

• Be flexible for meetings

ZAPIER

TAKEAWAYS

• Beneficial for employees and companies

• All based on trust

• Provide the tools and processes

• Iterate

• For 7geese

• Screensharing tool

• Create remote work policy

• Pair buddies / Live Feedback

www.7geese.com