“The best aspect of remote working for me is the flexibility. The amount of freedom remote work has brought to my life – from my work location to my working hours – has been a game changer. You can’t put a price tag on the ability to grow your career and grow your life, wherever both may take you.”
1/10
“From a company perspective, remote working really unlocks more diversity within a company. This is especially great for a company like Rock as we now have people with such different backgrounds building a productivity tool that can be used by anyone, anywhere.”
2/10
“The ability to travel. Living across the country this year has been a treat, and was not at all possible without the availability and rapid acceptance of remote work. In particular, I lived in Santa Fe and New Orleans – two cities that have fascinated me and now areas of the country I think of fondly and would consider living in for longer periods of time.”
3/10
“The best has been the ability to organize my workday to lead to better focus and increased productivity. I can optimize for creative work during my power hours while limiting interruptions and then handle managerial tasks during low energy slumps.”
4/10
“The best part is how much I have learned and how many connections I have made in a very short amount of time. The digital world makes us more connected than ever.”
5/10
“Without the need for long commutes to work and travel to other cities and countries, people find that they have a lot more time for their work and their families. This “found time” can be used to get more work done or spend more time with family, exercising, or relaxing.”
6/10
"Remote work provides clear cost savings for both employers and employees. Employers have dramatically reduced the cost of business travel, while employees avoid commuting costs."
7/10
"Get serious about what you’re willing to give up in order to work remotely. For some companies, this may mean forfeiting promotions and career opportunities. For others, it may mean not being able to build the same connections you could in-person."
8/10
“Employees with young children might favor working remotely because it gives them time to be with their kids and creates a better work-life balance. Parents can get chores done during their breaks, and they may even be able to set their own hours to flex with their needs.”
9/10
“Remote working allows you the flexibility to juggle more than one job since you don’t need to factor in commuting time or accommodate different dress codes and company cultures.”
10/10
The biggest struggle of going remote in corporate is finding a company/boss/role that will fully support remote work. Regardless of how far the world has come, I’ve found there can definitely be a stigma in big-business around working remotely. To overcome this, I recommend two steps: Get serious about what you’re willing to give up in order to work remotely. For some companies, this may mean forfeiting promotions and career opportunities. For others, it may mean not being able to build the same connections you could in-person. Find a company with values that are close to yours and pitch them. Ideally, this is the company you already work for, but that’s not always the case.
1/10
The worst aspect is the sense of never being “done”, that you never “leave work”. Work is always accessible, always there. With that, it’s easy to fall into the trap of carrying a constant internal stress, as if you fall just a little short in every aspect of your life. Oftentimes, this is mostly a psychological trap more so than an actual issue, so taking a step back in those moments to try and review where that sense of stress really stems from is usually what relieves it.
2/10
You’re working for yourself, with yourself. It was challenging to organize and manage all the tasks without needing to report to someone above me. There are so many advantages to being your own boss, but it does take a lot of self-motivation and discipline.
3/10
A unique aspect of working remotely is the reality of living with a dog who loves to eat grass. Especially in my early days of working at HubSpot, my dog would get sick in the middle of some pretty important meetings. I was a nervous wreck for my dog, but the compassion and empathy shown by my colleagues helped to solidify that remote working is just different, and it’s okay for your personal life to take over at times. I’ve met people’s partners, newborn babies, and puppies over Zoom and am pretty confident that I wouldn’t have had that opportunity if we were all working in an office.
4/10
The key thing you do need to work harder on is that you really need to make more of an effort to socialize and build relationships with everyone on the team as you can’t count on random micro kitchen conversations to happen. We tend to keep group meetings to a minimum and instead I prefer to do more 1:1s, which allow you to have more of a personal face-to-face conversation.
5/10
"The worst is the extra time and effort I need to put into communicating – and understanding that many people won’t be putting in the same time and effort. Without high-definition, full-body audio-visual cues, most people engage in mind-reading and expect you to do the same accurately."
6/10
“One of the downsides to having so much flexibility in your schedule is that it’s easy to blur the lines between when you’re on the clock and when you’re not. Trying to fit five-minute work tasks in around fixing dinner or helping your kids with their homework can leave your family feeling like you are working all of the time, even though you may feel that you are prioritizing them over your job. Sticking to clear boundaries between work time and family time can be challenging, but it’s essential to a really successful remote work situation.”
7/10
“The worst part I’d say is how many hours of sitting is involved in remote work. 90% of it is laptop based and very sedentary. There’s also a lot of issues with loneliness and burnout. Oftentimes, we don’t have a close physical, social community when working remotely, so we need to develop mechanisms and solutions to deal with loneliness and burnout.”
8/10
“The only thing that has been a bit difficult for me when it comes to remote work is making friends. I recently moved to a new city and normally you’d be able to rely on your colleagues to meet people, but with remote work plus the lockdown I haven’t been able to make any new friends here yet. Once things open back up a bit though my plan is to meet people through local volunteering and events, and so we will see how that goes.”
9/10
“As an introvert, my biggest challenge has been overcoming the temptation to isolate myself. Signing up for activities like group fitness and joining sports teams was a total game-changer. Building these activities into my schedule and committing to getting out is easy when you know people are expecting (and counting on you!) to show up.”
10/10
“Since we had no idea how long the situation with COVID-19 would persist, we had to keep the office workplace and help arrange a new one at home for the whole team. Each team member, in their turn, had to find a calm place to work at home, which is not easy when you have kids.”
1/5
“The ability to travel. Living across the country this year has been a treat, and was not at all possible without the availability and rapid acceptance of remote work. In particular, I lived in Santa Fe and New Orleans – two cities that have fascinated me and now areas of the country I think of fondly and would consider living in for longer periods of time.”
3/5
“A few things that pleasantly surprised me as a remote worker were the genuine relationships I was able to form with my coworkers, whether they were located in one of our global offices, in their home office, or a couch in their living room.”
4/5
“I enjoyed the autonomy around my workload and responsibilities, and the ease with which my colleagues communicate asynchronously regarding project management details, general team banter, or other work updates. It was a much more flexible and adaptable environment than I was used to, and fast paced, which I love.”
5/5
The biggest struggle of going remote in corporate is finding a company/boss/role that will fully support remote work. Regardless of how far the world has come, I’ve found there can definitely be a stigma in big-business around working remotely. To overcome this, I recommend two steps: Get serious about what you’re willing to give up in order to work remotely. For some companies, this may mean forfeiting promotions and career opportunities. For others, it may mean not being able to build the same connections you could in-person. Find a company with values that are close to yours and pitch them. Ideally, this is the company you already work for, but that’s not always the case.
“I’m fascinated by different cultures, history, and places. Working a 9 to 5 job and taking 2 vacations a year doesn’t really let us deeply experience the world. Being remote lets me experience our world more fully, and I felt that it would be regrettable to not fully explore the world in the short time we have on this planet.”
1/5
“I’m fascinated by different cultures, history, and places. Working a 9 to 5 job and taking 2 vacations a year doesn’t really let us deeply experience the world. Being remote lets me experience our world more fully, and I felt that it would be regrettable to not fully explore the world in the short time we have on this planet.”
1/5
“It hasn’t quite played out this way, but the primary factor was seeing more of the world. In particular, I wanted to not just vacation in different countries and cultures, but actually live there. So the plan was 12 months of traveling with a 3-month stint in 4 different cities in 4 different countries.”
3/5
“London WeWork is expensive! As a solo founder, it doesn’t make sense to spend money on office-space when I can be as effective from a desk at home. But I also find it much more practical and productive.”
4/5
“We took an opportunity to escape the growth and traffic, and moved to the Pacific Northwest to give our family a better quality of life. We wanted a more wholesome place for our daughter to grow up, where community was more important than status. We moved to a small town and bought a bigger home on acreage, a big upgrade from our tiny California home.”
5/5
The biggest struggle of going remote in corporate is finding a company/boss/role that will fully support remote work. Regardless of how far the world has come, I’ve found there can definitely be a stigma in big-business around working remotely. To overcome this, I recommend two steps: Get serious about what you’re willing to give up in order to work remotely. For some companies, this may mean forfeiting promotions and career opportunities. For others, it may mean not being able to build the same connections you could in-person. Find a company with values that are close to yours and pitch them. Ideally, this is the company you already work for, but that’s not always the case.
1/10
“The best aspect of remote working for me is the flexibility. The amount of freedom remote work has brought to my life – from my work location to my working hours – has been a game changer. You can’t put a price tag on the ability to grow your career and grow your life, wherever both may take you.”
2/10
“From a company perspective, remote working really unlocks more diversity within a company. This is especially great for a company like Rock as we now have people with such different backgrounds building a productivity tool that can be used by anyone, anywhere.”
3/10
“The ability to travel. Living across the country this year has been a treat, and was not at all possible without the availability and rapid acceptance of remote work. In particular, I lived in Santa Fe and New Orleans – two cities that have fascinated me and now areas of the country I think of fondly and would consider living in for longer periods of time.”
4/10
“The best has been the ability to organize my workday to lead to better focus and increased productivity. I can optimize for creative work during my power hours while limiting interruptions and then handle managerial tasks during low energy slumps.”
5/10
“The best part is how much I have learned and how many connections I have made in a very short amount of time. The digital world makes us more connected than ever.”
6/10
“Without the need for long commutes to work and travel to other cities and countries, people find that they have a lot more time for their work and their families. This “found time” can be used to get more work done or spend more time with family, exercising, or relaxing.”
7/10
"Remote work provides clear cost savings for both employers and employees. Employers have dramatically reduced the cost of business travel, while employees avoid commuting costs."
8/10
"Get serious about what you’re willing to give up in order to work remotely. For some companies, this may mean forfeiting promotions and career opportunities. For others, it may mean not being able to build the same connections you could in-person."
9/10
“Employees with young children might favor working remotely because it gives them time to be with their kids and creates a better work-life balance. Parents can get chores done during their breaks, and they may even be able to set their own hours to flex with their needs.”
10/10
“Remote working allows you the flexibility to juggle more than one job since you don’t need to factor in commuting time or accommodate different dress codes and company cultures.”
“I’m fascinated by different cultures, history, and places. Working a 9 to 5 job and taking 2 vacations a year doesn’t really let us deeply experience the world. Being remote lets me experience our world more fully, and I felt that it would be regrettable to not fully explore the world in the short time we have on this planet.”
1/5
“If we could make remote work mainstream, that would be a gamechanger for all the disabled people who are, in one way or another, prevented from crafting their best careers. My fianceé at the time suffered from Multiple Sclerosis, and her brother had developed paraplegia after a bike accident. So I had two very vivid examples in my life of how people who were very good at their jobs didn’t get a real chance to showcase their talent because their conditions made it suboptimal to work at an office.”
2/5
“It hasn’t quite played out this way, but the primary factor was seeing more of the world. In particular, I wanted to not just vacation in different countries and cultures, but actually live there. So the plan was 12 months of traveling with a 3-month stint in 4 different cities in 4 different countries.”
3/5
“London WeWork is expensive! As a solo founder, it doesn’t make sense to spend money on office-space when I can be as effective from a desk at home. But I also find it much more practical and productive.”
4/5
“We took an opportunity to escape the growth and traffic, and moved to the Pacific Northwest to give our family a better quality of life. We wanted a more wholesome place for our daughter to grow up, where community was more important than status. We moved to a small town and bought a bigger home on acreage, a big upgrade from our tiny California home.”
5/5
1/5
“Since we had no idea how long the situation with COVID-19 would persist, we had to keep the office workplace and help arrange a new one at home for the whole team. Each team member, in their turn, had to find a calm place to work at home, which is not easy when you have kids.”
2/5
“When I worked in an office, I imagined that once I had total control over my workspace, I’d establish all these healthy routines, I’d get a treadmill desk and make a fresh salad every day for lunch, and obviously at first I did absolutely none of that. It took me a while to develop the discipline to take care of myself when left completely to my own devices. Also, I switched to drinking tea.”
3/5
“I think everyone does remote work differently. Some people might choose crazy time zones or travel frequently. For me, it’s been more conservative. For now, I’m staying in North America and don’t move around too much. I do miss the office environment. There’s a certain level of creativity and velocity that’s hard to match when you’re working remotely, but there’s also a high level of efficiency you can gain from being remote.”
4/5
“A few things that pleasantly surprised me as a remote worker were the genuine relationships I was able to form with my coworkers, whether they were located in one of our global offices, in their home office, or a couch in their living room.”
5/5
“I enjoyed the autonomy around my workload and responsibilities, and the ease with which my colleagues communicate asynchronously regarding project management details, general team banter, or other work updates. It was a much more flexible and adaptable environment than I was used to, and fast paced, which I love.”
"The biggest struggle of going remote in corporate is finding a company/boss/role that will fully support remote work. Regardless of how far the world has come, I’ve found there can definitely be a stigma in big-business around working remotely. To overcome this, I recommend two steps: Get serious about what you’re willing to give up in order to work remotely. For some companies, this may mean forfeiting promotions and career opportunities. For others, it may mean not being able to build the same connections you could in-person. Find a company with values that are close to yours and pitch them. Ideally, this is the company you already work for, but that’s not always the case."
1/10
"The worst aspect is the sense of never being “done”, that you never “leave work”. Work is always accessible, always there. With that, it’s easy to fall into the trap of carrying a constant internal stress, as if you fall just a little short in every aspect of your life. Oftentimes, this is mostly a psychological trap more so than an actual issue, so taking a step back in those moments to try and review where that sense of stress really stems from is usually what relieves it."
2/10
"You’re working for yourself, with yourself. It was challenging to organize and manage all the tasks without needing to report to someone above me. There are so many advantages to being your own boss, but it does take a lot of self-motivation and discipline."
3/10
"A unique aspect of working remotely is the reality of living with a dog who loves to eat grass. Especially in my early days of working at HubSpot, my dog would get sick in the middle of some pretty important meetings. I was a nervous wreck for my dog, but the compassion and empathy shown by my colleagues helped to solidify that remote working is just different, and it’s okay for your personal life to take over at times. I’ve met people’s partners, newborn babies, and puppies over Zoom and am pretty confident that I wouldn’t have had that opportunity if we were all working in an office."
4/10
"The key thing you do need to work harder on is that you really need to make more of an effort to socialize and build relationships with everyone on the team as you can’t count on random micro kitchen conversations to happen. We tend to keep group meetings to a minimum and instead I prefer to do more 1:1s, which allow you to have more of a personal face-to-face conversation."
5/10
"The worst is the extra time and effort I need to put into communicating – and understanding that many people won’t be putting in the same time and effort. Without high-definition, full-body audio-visual cues, most people engage in mind-reading and expect you to do the same accurately."
6/10
“One of the downsides to having so much flexibility in your schedule is that it’s easy to blur the lines between when you’re on the clock and when you’re not. Trying to fit five-minute work tasks in around fixing dinner or helping your kids with their homework can leave your family feeling like you are working all of the time, even though you may feel that you are prioritizing them over your job. Sticking to clear boundaries between work time and family time can be challenging, but it’s essential to a really successful remote work situation.”
7/10
“The worst part I’d say is how many hours of sitting is involved in remote work. 90% of it is laptop based and very sedentary. There’s also a lot of issues with loneliness and burnout. Oftentimes, we don’t have a close physical, social community when working remotely, so we need to develop mechanisms and solutions to deal with loneliness and burnout.”
8/10
“The only thing that has been a bit difficult for me when it comes to remote work is making friends. I recently moved to a new city and normally you’d be able to rely on your colleagues to meet people, but with remote work plus the lockdown I haven’t been able to make any new friends here yet. Once things open back up a bit though my plan is to meet people through local volunteering and events, and so we will see how that goes.”
9/10
“As an introvert, my biggest challenge has been overcoming the temptation to isolate myself. Signing up for activities like group fitness and joining sports teams was a total game-changer. Building these activities into my schedule and committing to getting out is easy when you know people are expecting (and counting on you!) to show up.”
10/10
1/10
“The best aspect of remote working for me is the flexibility. The amount of freedom remote work has brought to my life – from my work location to my working hours – has been a game changer. You can’t put a price tag on the ability to grow your career and grow your life, wherever both may take you.”
2/10
“From a company perspective, remote working really unlocks more diversity within a company. This is especially great for a company like Rock as we now have people with such different backgrounds building a productivity tool that can be used by anyone, anywhere.”
3/10
“The ability to travel. Living across the country this year has been a treat, and was not at all possible without the availability and rapid acceptance of remote work. In particular, I lived in Santa Fe and New Orleans – two cities that have fascinated me and now areas of the country I think of fondly and would consider living in for longer periods of time.”
4/10
“The best has been the ability to organize my workday to lead to better focus and increased productivity. I can optimize for creative work during my power hours while limiting interruptions and then handle managerial tasks during low energy slumps.”
5/10
“The best part is how much I have learned and how many connections I have made in a very short amount of time. The digital world makes us more connected than ever.”
6/10
“Without the need for long commutes to work and travel to other cities and countries, people find that they have a lot more time for their work and their families. This “found time” can be used to get more work done or spend more time with family, exercising, or relaxing.”
7/10
"Remote work provides clear cost savings for both employers and employees. Employers have dramatically reduced the cost of business travel, while employees avoid commuting costs."
8/10
"Get serious about what you’re willing to give up in order to work remotely. For some companies, this may mean forfeiting promotions and career opportunities. For others, it may mean not being able to build the same connections you could in-person."
9/10
“Employees with young children might favor working remotely because it gives them time to be with their kids and creates a better work-life balance. Parents can get chores done during their breaks, and they may even be able to set their own hours to flex with their needs.”
10/10
“Remote working allows you the flexibility to juggle more than one job since you don’t need to factor in commuting time or accommodate different dress codes and company cultures.”
“I’m fascinated by different cultures, history, and places. Working a 9 to 5 job and taking 2 vacations a year doesn’t really let us deeply experience the world. Being remote lets me experience our world more fully, and I felt that it would be regrettable to not fully explore the world in the short time we have on this planet.”
1/5
“If we could make remote work mainstream, that would be a gamechanger for all the disabled people who are, in one way or another, prevented from crafting their best careers. My fianceé at the time suffered from Multiple Sclerosis, and her brother had developed paraplegia after a bike accident. So I had two very vivid examples in my life of how people who were very good at their jobs didn’t get a real chance to showcase their talent because their conditions made it suboptimal to work at an office.”
2/5
“It hasn’t quite played out this way, but the primary factor was seeing more of the world. In particular, I wanted to not just vacation in different countries and cultures, but actually live there. So the plan was 12 months of traveling with a 3-month stint in 4 different cities in 4 different countries.”
3/5
“London WeWork is expensive! As a solo founder, it doesn’t make sense to spend money on office-space when I can be as effective from a desk at home. But I also find it much more practical and productive.”
4/5
“We took an opportunity to escape the growth and traffic, and moved to the Pacific Northwest to give our family a better quality of life. We wanted a more wholesome place for our daughter to grow up, where community was more important than status. We moved to a small town and bought a bigger home on acreage, a big upgrade from our tiny California home.”
5/5
1/5
“Since we had no idea how long the situation with COVID-19 would persist, we had to keep the office workplace and help arrange a new one at home for the whole team. Each team member, in their turn, had to find a calm place to work at home, which is not easy when you have kids.”
2/5
“When I worked in an office, I imagined that once I had total control over my workspace, I’d establish all these healthy routines, I’d get a treadmill desk and make a fresh salad every day for lunch, and obviously at first I did absolutely none of that. It took me a while to develop the discipline to take care of myself when left completely to my own devices. Also, I switched to drinking tea.”
3/5
“I think everyone does remote work differently. Some people might choose crazy time zones or travel frequently. For me, it’s been more conservative. For now, I’m staying in North America and don’t move around too much. I do miss the office environment. There’s a certain level of creativity and velocity that’s hard to match when you’re working remotely, but there’s also a high level of efficiency you can gain from being remote.”
4/5
“A few things that pleasantly surprised me as a remote worker were the genuine relationships I was able to form with my coworkers, whether they were located in one of our global offices, in their home office, or a couch in their living room.”
5/5
“I enjoyed the autonomy around my workload and responsibilities, and the ease with which my colleagues communicate asynchronously regarding project management details, general team banter, or other work updates. It was a much more flexible and adaptable environment than I was used to, and fast paced, which I love.”
"The biggest struggle of going remote in corporate is finding a company/boss/role that will fully support remote work. Regardless of how far the world has come, I’ve found there can definitely be a stigma in big-business around working remotely. To overcome this, I recommend two steps: Get serious about what you’re willing to give up in order to work remotely. For some companies, this may mean forfeiting promotions and career opportunities. For others, it may mean not being able to build the same connections you could in-person. Find a company with values that are close to yours and pitch them. Ideally, this is the company you already work for, but that’s not always the case."
1/10
"The worst aspect is the sense of never being “done”, that you never “leave work”. Work is always accessible, always there. With that, it’s easy to fall into the trap of carrying a constant internal stress, as if you fall just a little short in every aspect of your life. Oftentimes, this is mostly a psychological trap more so than an actual issue, so taking a step back in those moments to try and review where that sense of stress really stems from is usually what relieves it."
2/10
"You’re working for yourself, with yourself. It was challenging to organize and manage all the tasks without needing to report to someone above me. There are so many advantages to being your own boss, but it does take a lot of self-motivation and discipline."
3/10
"A unique aspect of working remotely is the reality of living with a dog who loves to eat grass. Especially in my early days of working at HubSpot, my dog would get sick in the middle of some pretty important meetings. I was a nervous wreck for my dog, but the compassion and empathy shown by my colleagues helped to solidify that remote working is just different, and it’s okay for your personal life to take over at times. I’ve met people’s partners, newborn babies, and puppies over Zoom and am pretty confident that I wouldn’t have had that opportunity if we were all working in an office."
4/10
"The key thing you do need to work harder on is that you really need to make more of an effort to socialize and build relationships with everyone on the team as you can’t count on random micro kitchen conversations to happen. We tend to keep group meetings to a minimum and instead I prefer to do more 1:1s, which allow you to have more of a personal face-to-face conversation."
5/10
"The worst is the extra time and effort I need to put into communicating – and understanding that many people won’t be putting in the same time and effort. Without high-definition, full-body audio-visual cues, most people engage in mind-reading and expect you to do the same accurately."
6/10
“One of the downsides to having so much flexibility in your schedule is that it’s easy to blur the lines between when you’re on the clock and when you’re not. Trying to fit five-minute work tasks in around fixing dinner or helping your kids with their homework can leave your family feeling like you are working all of the time, even though you may feel that you are prioritizing them over your job. Sticking to clear boundaries between work time and family time can be challenging, but it’s essential to a really successful remote work situation.”
7/10
“The worst part I’d say is how many hours of sitting is involved in remote work. 90% of it is laptop based and very sedentary. There’s also a lot of issues with loneliness and burnout. Oftentimes, we don’t have a close physical, social community when working remotely, so we need to develop mechanisms and solutions to deal with loneliness and burnout.”
8/10
“The only thing that has been a bit difficult for me when it comes to remote work is making friends. I recently moved to a new city and normally you’d be able to rely on your colleagues to meet people, but with remote work plus the lockdown I haven’t been able to make any new friends here yet. Once things open back up a bit though my plan is to meet people through local volunteering and events, and so we will see how that goes.”
9/10
“As an introvert, my biggest challenge has been overcoming the temptation to isolate myself. Signing up for activities like group fitness and joining sports teams was a total game-changer. Building these activities into my schedule and committing to getting out is easy when you know people are expecting (and counting on you!) to show up.”
10/10