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.

While most of us are beginning to get used to the new reality of working from home, it is still important to talk about setting up a home office.

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.

Remote Work Awards is RemoteHub's annual celebration of remote companies building the future of work.

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.

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.

Most teams are posting what they're working on to the daily #standup channel thread in Slack. Some do video calls.