How to hire remote staff
Hiring and onboarding remote team members
Making it work
Managing remote teams, case studies and more
Technology roundup
A look at tech tools and IT issues
Making the case
Why remote is good for your business
Six traits to look for in remote candidates
Ready to hire? We take a look at the six traits we think are important for remote team members, and share the experiences of other remote employers.
read moreManaging a successful distributed team: talk by Anna Danes Boix
A detailed talk on Managing a Successful Distributed Team by Anna Danes Boix of managing-virtual-teams.com, given at Coding Serbia 2015. The first 15 minutes deals with hiring and onboarding, the rest of the talk looks at team building and communications.
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Hiring remotely? Start here
Hiring a remote team member? We look at key traits, writing remote into the job spec, remote interviewing and more.
read moreMaking it work
Remote companies share what works for them, from managing remote teams to policies and best practice
How to thrive when you work from home: top tips for introverts
Victoria Vanderbilt, Founder and CEO of TelecommutersTalk, shares her experience of working from home as an introvert, along with her top tips to help you thrive.
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How to tackle loneliness when you work from home
Although we love working from home, it’s important to recognise that it can be isolating. Feeling lonely can have a negative impact on your health and wellbeing, so don’t suffer in silence. As part of the first global #WorkFromHomeDay, we share our top tips on tackling loneliness when you work from home.
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No office required: Emma’s story
How remote working enabled me to build a thriving business, while also caring for my young family and supporting my seriously ill son. By Emma Piper, founder, Pied Piper Communications
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Want to work from home? How to have ‘the flex talk’ with your boss.
Want to work from home? We’ve shared our top tips to help you feel well-prepared and confident before you have ‘the flex talk’ with your boss. Plus what you can do to help things go smoothly if they say yes!
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Inside video communications company, appear.in
How Norwegian video communications specialists appear.in build remote working into their company culture, and what it’s really like to be part of their distributed team.
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Working in a global, distributed team: Lessons from the charity Animals Asia
How to lead a distributed team when you work from home, plus some top tips on building a remote-working charity: lessons from Animals Asia.
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Working from home at Parkinson’s UK
Remote working in the charity sector: why more than half of staff at Parkinson’s UK work from home – and how they make it work (Part One).
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Building a global, distributed team: Lessons from social networking experts SWOOP Analytics
Inside SWOOP Analytics, experts on remote working and social networks for business. SWOOP’s James Tyer shares some great insights on life in a global, distributed team – including how to build trust, manage across time-zones, and communicate effectively.
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Remote work and inclusion: a conversation with disability campaigner and Founder of the Diversability Card, Shani Dhanda
We spoke with campaigner and entrepreneur Shani Dhanda about flexible working, remote working and inclusion in the workplace.
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Building a distributed team at Elementary Digital
Why website and digital marketing company Elementary Digital decided to introduce remote working, and how they built a successful distributed team.
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Learn to build your own apps and websites: Beginners online web-developer course from 23 Code Street
23 Code Street is a coding school that also funds training for women in disadvantaged communities in India. If you’re thinking of a career in tech. their new online course will teach you how to build your own apps and websites.
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Get confident with remote tech tools: our mini guide
You’ve decided that you’d love to ditch the commute and find a remote job, but there’s just one problem. You’ve never used any of the ‘tech tools’ used by remote teams – in fact, the very thought of joining a video conference fills you with dread. Fear not! You’re in the right place. Our Mini Guide will get you up to speed, introducing commonly-used tools like Slack, Trello and more.
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Tech tools for remote teams
Most remote teams rely on tools such as virtual office software and video conferencing. Choosing the right tools can be tricky, but getting it right can make a huge difference to how well your remote team works together. Our quick guide introduces some key tools, and shares the examples from other fully remote companies.
read moreIntroducing Slack
New to Slack? It’s a team communications tool used by lots of remote teams to keep in touch and share work. These two short videos will get you started, giving you an overview and showing Slack in action.
read moreFree Guide to Cyber Security for small businesses, from Get Safe Online
http://www.getsafeonline.org/media/pdf/bis-13-780-small-business-cyber-security-guidance.pdfIf you run your own small venture without much IT support, it can be easy to ignore online risks to your business. Government-supported organisation Get Safe Online has produced a free guide to help you understand and manage online risks, and improve your online security.
read moreVideo conferencing for better communications
Michael Geller of Blue Jeans gives a quick explanation of how video conferencing helps build relationships with clients and customers. We think some face-to-face time is great for remote teams too, helping to build connections and clarify issues.
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October Half Term: Coworking + Forest School
Work space for the grownups. Fabulous forest school activities for kids aged 7 to 12 Located at Rural Enterprise East in Otley, Suffolk. New date - Thurs 24th October, 10am to 3pm Places are limited so book soon! New date: Thursday October 24th, 10am - 3pm...
New for the school holidays – Coworking for the grownups, plus Kids Forest School Fun Day
Some very special coworking days for working parents! Work in the lovely space at Rural Enterprise East while your kids (aged 6-12) have fun outdoors at forest school, run by Time To Play. Two dates in August, runs 10am to 2pm. Read on for details, pricing and how to book…
Coworking Thursdays at The Bank Arts Centre, Eye
Regular coworking day at The Bank community arts centre and cafe, Eye, Suffolk. Meets Third Thursday of the Month, 10.30am to 3.30pm
Cowork East – New Coworking Day, Friday June 28th
Come along to a friendly Coworking Day – Cowork East – at Rural Enterprise East, Otley, Suffolk. Run by Rural Enterprise East together with myworkhive. Full details here >>
£25 off the new online digital skills course from Digital Mums
We get it. A career gap can leave you feeling 'rusty' and unsure of youself. The new Digital Retox programme - from online education experts Digital Mums - is designed to refresh your digital skills and rebuild self-confidence. The flexible working champions over at...
Launching #twomorehours and our fantastic competition: win an expert coaching session to help you revamp your CV
Find out how remote working could give you #twomorehours each day – and how to enter our fantastic competition: win a 90-minute ‘revamp your CV’ session with expert career coach Clara Wilcox, of The Balance Collective.
Learn to build your own apps and websites: Beginners online web-developer course from 23 Code Street
23 Code Street is a coding school that also funds training for women in disadvantaged communities in India. If you’re thinking of a career in tech. their new online course will teach you how to build your own apps and websites.
Events | Scatter Conference – for remote workers and distributed teams
Coming up in March: Scatter Conference for remote workers and distributed teams, in Austin, Texas. Talks will be live-streamed and recorded for virtual attendees.
Cafcass cuts office space by 50%, thanks to remote working
Check out this interesting article in the Guardian, which looks at how social care firm Cafcass (the Children and Family Court Advisory & Support Services) successfully introduced remote-working for their staff. The article describes how the 81 staff at Cafcass...
Not just a ‘Mum thing’ – the CBI and Mumsnet call for more flexi-working, for everyone
It's not just us. The CBI, the UK's top business lobbying organisation, has urged companies to do even more to encourage flexible working - and to make sure employees know about flexible working options, right from the time they are hired. Back in November 2014, the...