This page has a variety of resources that could be useful to organizations moving to, or expanding, their distributed work structure.
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Basics
If you are relatively new to remote/distributed work, don’t try to reinvent the wheel for how it will work at your organization. Here’s a collection of articles to get you familiar with some of the basic opportunities, challenges and recommendations that others have encountered in developing their remote/distributed organizations.
- Everything We Know About Remote Work
- Best Practices for Leading a Newly Distributed Organization
- The Five Levels of Distributed Work Autonomy
- How to Create A Remote Work Routine That Works
- The Stress of Remote Working
- Best Practices for Distributed Teams
- Asynchronous Communication and Why It Matters For Remote Work
- Remote: Office Not Required (book)
- Culture and Tools of Remote Work at Automattic
- Distributed (podcast)
- Essential Skills for a Good Remote Worker
- How Remote Workers Make Friends
- Tips for running a remote meetup
- Power in a distributed organization
- Distributed vs. In-Person Teams
Communication and Collaboration
Effective distributed work requires great tools. Here are a few to get you started:
- Slack: for real-time internal communications
- Zoom: for audio and video meetings
- G Suite: for document collaboration and shared files
- Notion: task, to-do and note collaboration
- Trello: shared list management
- Front: for a shared email inbox
- Basecamp: for project management
- Miro: collaborative whiteboard
- WordPress P2: shared conversations so you can ditch email
- Harmonizely or Calendly: for meeting scheduling
- 1Password: for shared password management
- Toggl: for time tracking
- Phone system: Vonage or 8×8
- Headset: Sennheiser SC 30 (mono) or Sennheiser SC 160 (stereo)
Management and Leadership
Managing and supporting your employees, and helping them be their best, looks different in a distributed environment.
- Gusto or Lumity for benefits and HR management
- Expensify: expense management and reporting
- Lighthouse: for coordinating and tracking 1:1 check-ins
- Greenhouse: for managing hiring and applicant tracking
- Culture Amp: employee engagement and retention
- Reboot: ongoing coaching and leadership development
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