Remote teams have been adding hundreds of tools to their profiles on RemoteHub. I’ve now rebuilt the tools page to learn more about how exactly these companies are using the tools in their everyday life.
There’s some uncertainty about the future due to the world being in lockdown and I wanted to know if this has already had an immediate effect on how remote companies hire.
John Riordan is a Director of Support in Ireland at Shopify. I will show you what I found from his home office that I already used to improve my own workspace.
You’ve used to work in the office. With other people around you. When you needed to discuss something, you’d just walked to this person and started to talk.
I’ve been working from home for several years, so when the virus hit the world and people started to work from home, not much changed for me – I’m still working from home.
Remote work is the future of working, no doubt about that. The future has gotten here a little bit quicker than expected for a lot of companies though. With the rise of a pandemic people around the world are forced to work from home, making remote work both a possibility and a challenge for companies and employees in all fields.
It’s not that companies are remote or not. Not that simple! They’re rather on a scale between fully remote teams who have never had an office and co-located teams with a few remote employees. Most remote companies are somewhere in between.
Kinsta is a managed WordPress hosting provider founded in 2013. Started by a group of four founders spread between Budapest and London, today more than half of the team works remotely.
You can now apply to remote jobs directly with your RemoteHub profile. This makes it easy to apply and also keep track of your applications. You’ll get an email when remote company opens your application – so even if you won’t get a reply, you at least know that they’ve seen your application.
Stanwood is a remote development agency with team members spread across 9 countries. They are one of the leading remote companies building the future of work.
Talking to your newsletter subscribers can be a great way to build a valuable network of Internet friends. How Derek Sivers (who made $22M from the sale of CDBaby, btw) answered my email and inspired me to ask about my own subscribers.
Toggl Plan is a fully remote company with headquarters in Tallinn, Estonia. Bootstrapped and started as a side-product for internal use for the time tracking tool Toggl, they’re now a remote team with members working from 10 countries.
First, the marketing manager started to work remotely. Then the development team began to phase out the office. No people left in the building, they did the reasonable thing – closed it.
Do your research before joining a remote team to see if you would be happy to work there. Companies offering remote jobs can have very different remote cultures.
More and more companies are hiring their first remote team members and leading remote companies are open and friendly about sharing their experiences with them. There are services available to help your company to start working remotely.
Remote work can provide flexibility and also give you the opportunity to travel. If you don’t have a remote job yet, you can convince your manager on giving you more opportunities to work remotely or just find a new remote job with a flexible schedule.
Competition for remote jobs is intense, but if you’re genuinely interested in remote work, you’ll get the remote job sooner or later. RemoteHub asked remote company managers to share tips about how to get a remote job in their team.
Flexible working hours are often considered to be the biggest benefit to remote work. Meet these 10 remote companies who let you work when you’re the most productive and who are hiring right now for remote jobs in programming, design, marketing and support.
Although there are a lot of remote jobs websites out there, most of them just aggregate data from the same sources. If you’re planning to ditch the office this year, you should browse these remote jobs sites every day and you won’t miss the best opportunities – these are the most popular websites to find a remote job in 2019.
The ability to work from home or anywhere else in the world is itself the ultimate benefit of remote work, but there are even more perks that remote companies provide for their distributed teams.
