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 …
Category: Remote Work
Company culture comes before revenue when hiring remotely
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 …
Be your own CEO: Why the benefits of remote work go beyond digital nomadism
Meet Kristi DePaul. She’s the CEO of Founders Marketing, a company that creates bold content strategy for the future of learning and work, and a regular contributor on Remote.co blog, where she’s written over 160 blog posts. We sat down with Kristi to learn more about her view on remote work, and how she believes …
Remote and on-demand work: Building the infrastructure for today’s workforce
If you work remotely, you’ve probably tried finding a coworking space before. Nowadays there’s plenty of options, but finding one that doesn’t suck or drain your wallet is a whole different story. Either there are too many people talking, the coffee machine is broken, the internet’s from 1999, the monthly rent is costing you an …
Remote business is the future: A talk with Liam Martin from Time Doctor
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 …
Mary Hartberg from Close.io: Maintaining culture in a remote team with retreats
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, …