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As COVID-19 spread around the world in early 2020, offices were forced to close. Anyone who could work from home started to right away. Companies were forced to quickly figure out how to communicate, collaborate, share documents, and manage teams virtually. After just a few months, though, a number of business leaders started to figure out the whole work-from-home thing has benefits. That’s...
The media has declared that the future of work is hybrid. (Just so we’re all on the same page, this is how I’d define hybrid work: The company plans to have employees working from home part of the time and in an office part of the time. That’s from our remote work dictionary). This argument for hybrid work comes off as lazy. The basic premise seems to be that we all have these...
I asked over 100 people who work from home, “What is your #1 top tip for working remotely?” I received some fantastic responses. I got some responses that I personally disagree with, but still included those since my preferences may be different from yours. And there were plenty of contradicting responses. You’ll see those as well. What you’ll find below is just about...
What is monday.com? Monday.com Work OS is an award-winning project management software with 100,000+ companies as clients. Now… that is what the nice people at monday.com say, so let’s take it with a grain of salt. They do have those awards to back it up, though. But we can always verify those lofty claims through third parties. Here are a few good options. 2019: Monday...
Every new trend or industry feels the need to come up with its own acronyms and terms. It’s almost like we want to confuse people so they feel left out. The same is going on right now in the remote work space. You used to only see WTF and now we have WFH. You used to have a plumber come in to do some sink work, now we have async work. Then you’ve got digital nomads and co-working...
If you run a remote team or work from home, this is THE GUIDE FOR YOU. We keep it updated, too (and ask for contributions down here). This list includes 79 software tools for remote work organized by type of tool, how it’s priced, and my personal favorites (if anyone cares). You can filter the list any way you’d like. I asked over 80 people who work from home for their absolute most...
I started working from home in my early twenties. We had four guys in a four-bedroom apartment near the beach in San Diego. You can probably picture the scene: dirty dishes stacked above the faucet, beer took up most of the fridge, and quarters were the hottest commodity on laundry day. I wasn’t exactly focused on building a nice work environment. I threw out a fold-out table (likely...
I thought about doing a remote work study. I really did. Then I remembered that I read amazing ones from Buffer and Owl Labs each year. Then I remembered I read one from GitLab this year that was fantastic. I came to the conclusion that the world does not need yet another remote work, or State Of Remote Work, study… especially in 2021. But, we may need someone to go through all of the...
I’m on my fourth desk in seven years of working from home. I went cheap, twice, when I was younger and the desks didn’t hold up. I went foldable when my wife and I lived in a small apartment, but the folding park broke. Finally, I invested in the Jarvis Bamboo Standing Desk. It’s expensive, but awesome. It’s been my desk for about three years and it’s still like new...
My wife, Shannon, and I have worked from home together for four years now. Since 2017. During that time, we’ve gone through a number of changes to where and how we work: First, we both worked full-time from a one-bedroom apartment Then, worked from the road during three months of travel We shared the guest bedroom as our office (and had our first kid) We shared a desk within our bedroom (since...
