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, …
We sat down for an interview with Hugo Pereira, VP of Growth & Strategy at EVBox, to talk about the team’s experience with annual retreats and how they manage company culture. As a company with 100% year-on-year growth, EVBox has unique challenges when it comes to building company culture and retaining employees. As it turns …