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Stop Stepping In

The full weight of your position within the company is behind anything you say. We're often tempted to give our two cents, but we might end up causing more harm than good. And we're also preventing people from getting the experience they need.
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WeRemote has updates

2020 was a tumultuous year for all of us. For me as a maker and a founder it also meant trouble. Some contracts fell through the cracks, the curfew, a loss of connection with some people and an overall degraded state of mind led to me not focusing on the platform. 
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/ Opinion / Remote Work

Remote work demographics on WeRemote

In an attempt to understand who’s accessing our platform I was recently looking through our analytics data. Given the times were living, and the amount of mistakes I’ve made while developing and promoting this platform, I thought applying some new learnings and insights I got can start with looking at our existing data. Many companies focus extensively on user acquisition and forget to cater towards the users they already have. This is something I really want to change.
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Employee surveillance - a dangerous trend in remote work

There's a saying that even the smallest drop of sewage can spoil a glass of the finest champagne, no matter how big the glass is or how much champagne you pour in it. For the past three years I've been trying to popularize remote work as an alternative to office-based work. I said alternative, yes. It is important to make this distinction since in our complexly organized world, there's rarely a case where one option could completely replace another. Unfortunately, in our polarized society with its tendency to be distributed at the extremes of any topic and thin at the middle, it is hard to get such a concept across. For people who only see in black or white it's hard to make them see the grays. While advocating on my merry way, the COVID-19 pandemic hit and it pushed many companies to forcefully adopt and adapt to remote work.
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WeRemote gets a dedicated uptime status page

Being able to monitor things in production is a very useful thing. Getting alerts when something goes down, maybe getting some information about the reason why the service is considered to be "down". But more important than you, yourself getting alerts, it's important to be able to tell users when there are problems, and when they are fixed. Since we decided to go full-speed ahead with WeRemote, one of the things I could quickly put together was a status page. This is essential for any service users depend on.
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Presence: The Silent Productivity Killer

One of the worst habits that somehow made its way from the office into remote work is “presence”. There is this innate expectation that if you’re online and in the chat rooms you’re working. Unfortunately slack and similar communication environments have become a cesspool of endless threads where nobody is able to explain an idea from start to finish because it is covered by all the “aham”, “I get it”, “yes” or “random cat gif” replies.
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Avoiding depression while working remotely

One of the biggest complaints of first-time remote workers is the lack of delineation between work time and personal time. The feeling of being on a hamster wheel. There could be multiple causes for it. Underlying mental health conditions, or the person is an extrovert and now they have to cope with working from their home with little to no contact with the outside world — this can be tormenting for extroverts like myself. But most of the times, the hamster-wheel feeling is caused by something way less important or impactful, that can be dealt with if you have a bit of discipline.