Remote Work

Look up ☝️. See our company name is Buildremote (emphasis on remote)? We don’t think you ever need an excuse to work from home, be it permanently or for a day. We asked our list of contributors to share their best excuses to work from home. We received 200+ reasons to work from home and organized the best ones into two categories. Click one of…

To highlight some good excuses to miss work on short notice, we dug through some earlier posts about leaving work early, missing work, and reasons to work from home. We found 15 good excuses to call off work last minute, and organized them into two categories: The best last-minute examples that never fail Notifications you can condense into a quick text message Some will work…

 Michelle Coulson is the founder of Remote Rebellion where she has helped hundreds of remote job seekers to get a fully remote job in companies that align with their values and the lifestyle they seek. With nearly 10 years of experience as a recruiter and her own digital nomad story by moving to Bali in 2021, Michelle is the perfect resource to help others…

My warm feet stung the cold wooden floor as I walked downstairs to get a glass of water. It was 8 a.m. on a Tuesday in the middle of winter. Boston winter. I was staring down the barrel of another solitary day of work in my living room. Starting a software business by myself, in the middle of winter, in the middle of a pandemic;…

While working remotely is not a new concept (I’ve worked remotely for more than 10 years), prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, only a small fraction of the workforce worked away from a centralized office or business location. Like many workers, you may have gotten your first taste of remote work in 2020, as social distancing to slow the spread…

I’ve worked remotely for most of my career, over a decade as I write this. I’ve also run a fully remote company for nearly a decade. So I’ve experienced the benefits of remote as an employee and on behalf of the company. I haven’t experienced all of these benefits of working remotely all of the time, but I have come across all of them at…

What does “work from anywhere” (WFA) mean? Work from anywhere is a company policy or program that allows employees to perform their jobs outside of the office, the home, and their home state or country. This could mean different things to different companies: Some companies may offer work from anywhere they legally operate (80 countries, for example). Some might allow up to two months of…