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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