Meals are hands down one of the most important elements of a large group event like a company retreat. They offer the chance for team members to bond over good food and drinks, and create memories they will remember long after they return home. As such, organizing meals is one of the most critical parts …
There are companies that do staff retreats, and then there are companies that live and breathe for them. Modern Tribe is a distributed company that has organized nearly 60 retreats for their team since 2007. If that’s not impressive enough, during this same time frame, they also managed to scale their business from 20 to …
Michelle Ardiel is the Director of Photographer Operations at Flytographer, the very first platform created for vacation photographers that now works with 500 photographers in 300 cities around the world. In this short interview, we delve into the ways Flytographer’s annual meetups stimulate employee retention by creating a strong bond between its community and, most …
Melissa Ng is a digital nomad, Product UX Designer and the CEO & founder of Melewi, a fully remote design company that’s worked with clients such as McDonalds, Visa, and Samsung. In our quest to investigate how great founders do this remote work thing, we sat down with her (remotely, of course) to ask about her …
You’ve probably heard of Buffer before, but in case you haven’t, there’s a few things you should really know about this company: It’s a social media tool The entire company is fully remote They’re very transparent about details other companies don’t normally reveal They have awesome retreats at least twice a year in beautiful locations …
One of the basic steps of organizing remote retreats is booking flights. With so many employees from around the world, it’s also one of the crucial elements to get right. And trust us when we say it: It’s NOT as easy as it may seem. In fact, we hired some agencies to take care of …
If you lead a remote or distributed company, you’ve probably thought about running a retreat. With 10 or so people on your team, that probably sounds very doable. But what about organizing a retreat with as much as 100, 200 or even 500 people? It may sound scary, but it’s not impossible. At Surf Office, …
It’s no secret that we believe remote work is the future. Remote work has gone from a “nice-to-have” to a “must-have” if a business wants to 1. reduce costs and 2. hire the best talent. For many this still sounds futuristic but @InVisionApp shows us now what is going to be a norm for tech …
When working in a fully remote company, the question that outsiders ask most often is: how do you keep the company culture alive? We sat down with Mary Hartberg who does just that at the 100% distributed company Close.io. As the Director of People Operations, Mary has been instrumental in growing their fully distributed team, …