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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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/ Productivity / Remote Work

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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/ Remote Work / Recruiting

When recruiters don't share...

Stop for a moment and think deeply whether you have a friend who's been looking for a job for a long time. This is a reality for many people. I've met 5 in the last month alone. Some of them have been looking for so long that they're willing to take on almost any job, although they're highly skilled in a different field. They are so desperate that they're willing to dumb down their CV, just so they can get a job and not get turned out because they're overqualified.
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/ Remote Work / Product development

Why businesses with single technical founders fail

As techies, we’re accustomed to writing neat code, respecting best practices, following guidelines and asking for clear requirements each and every time. But this shines a bad light on us when we try to go the entrepreneurial route. It doesn’t matter if we’re building the next <insert-social-media-network-name> or that we’re building Uber but for <insert-weird-made-up-industry-name>, it has to be perfect. If possible, it has to be even better than the thing we’re cloning. We all know those developers from Facebook store their passwords in plain text… we’re going to encrypt everything thrice! What all of this does is kill “done” and “good enough”. And more often than not, good enough is all we need to validate a market, to see if there’s potential, or to serve that market directly.
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What are the most difficult things about working remotely?

Working remotely is amazing but it also comes with its challenges. Just like I read in a book, a while back, "solutions don't exist, only tradeoffs". Remote work is also a tradeoff. Just like when you're migrating from a monolith to a microservices architecture (software architecture), you're actually trading off system reliance (monolith) for network reliance (microservices). This article outlines a couple of the most difficult things about working remotely and provides a couple of points on how to mitigate these drawbacks.