Education, 10+ years (local) - Now: Principal Engineer at Rackspace, 3 years (remote) 2016: Remote Year brings together a community of 75 digital nomads from across the globe to spend a year working, traveling, and exploring 12 cities around the world. DevOps and Remote Work for about 4 years.
- Martin Fowler Co-location is probably more efficient, but there are exceptions. Invest in communication, tooling, and the occasional F2F visit. What is Remote Work? Single site Multi-site Satellite model Remote first
teams with more women members have higher collective intelligence and achieve better business outcomes. [...] We recommend that teams wanting to achieve high performance do their best to recruit and retain more women, and improve diversity in other areas, too."
distributed GitHub - 75% remote as of 2014 Basecamp - Fully distributed Remote work essentially requires Automation and Infrastructure as Code, unless you want to be chained to a desk.
remote work like writing or graphic designers. Remote guilt is real. Leaders change culture. Unplanned work and timezones. Getting out the door is a struggle. Connectivity is an obsession. Logistics is a huge time sink, but worth it. You will be lonely. Travel to see your team!
location or time zone? Perks for remotes? Travel to an office / team meetups Social Media and Blogging presence about remote work Watch out for the laundry lists, 10x developer, culture What should you look for?