Work Culture
How to Adapt to the “New Normal” of All-Remote Work
What does this mean for what the workplace looks like when we have the option to return to the office post-vaccine? We believe the “work wherever, whenever” era isn’t a future possibility; it’s already here, and all signs point to it being here to stay.
The Case for Modern Work
The first step is to identify and examine the roadblocks in front of us, then design approaches at an organizational and individual level to maximize mental health and remove those barriers. It’s a multifaceted issue, but I believe there are four core tensions impeding our best work.
How To Plan a Virtual Offsite for a Distributed Team
In January 2020, Loommates from around the world gathered in Barbados for our annual offsite — a special time for our globally distributed team to relax, bond, and create lifelong memories together. Little did we know that, one year later, we’d find ourselves in a very different scenario. We thought about postponing our 2021 offsite […]
How to Build Company Culture With Video Messages
Video messaging isn’t just for more effective work (although it’s great for that, too), but exchanging looms has become a critical part of how we have fun and build camaraderie among our teams.
How Brandwatch Uses Video to Build Remote Work Culture
Video is key to creating a communication-centric work environment. This is especially true at Brandwatch, where we are transitioning from global offices where everyone came to a physical workplace to being a remote work-optimized culture. As government guidelines continue to shift and it’s not advised for people to come into the office, most of us are working from […]
20:VC Podcast: 3 Key Rules To Operate Remote Teams Successfully
After listening to many of his episodes and feeling like I knew him, I had the pleasure of finally meeting Harry Stebbings. What a gem of a human. We got to have a chat for his podcast, The Twenty Minute VC. Check out the episode here. We covered a range of topics, including: The 3 rules to […]
A Curated List of the Best Remote Work Websites & Resources
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are struggling to make the shift from co-located offices to remote work environments — a transition that under normal circumstances, would take a year or so to implement. Needless to say, these are hardly normal circumstances. Most people and organizations who are offering advice about remote work right […]
11 Tweaks to Fine-Tune Your Remote Work Routine
The internet does not need another remote tips round-up. Those of us who have been thrust into full-time remote work are well aware we need to schedule breaks to avoid burnout, practice good Slack and Zoom etiquette, and take measures to separate work life from home life when working from home. Thank you. Yes. We’re […]
Why Trust is the Key to Your Remote Work Strategy
At different points in my career, it’s felt like there exists an underlying belief that “time in office” correlates to “work effort” — such as one manager’s guidance to “be aware of the bad optics of leaving before five” or leaders suggesting that “the people who tend to get into the office earliest are usually […]