Welcome to working from home! The place where the hours you work are entirely made up and your pants don't matter.
Mentorship requires at least 2 people. However, anyone who has ever queried information about software developer onboarding, could notice right away a strong focus on the onboardee. Most onboarding approaches are centered on guiding new hires through their first days, tasks or overcoming the hurdles of getting started. But this approach rarely highlights the troubles and challenges of the mentors*. We frequently hear about the “Sink or Swim” approach by which new engineers are “thrown into the deep end” with hands-on tasks on their first day in. The truth is, mentors are also treated this way, although unintentionally and with no buoy waiting for them.
Contrary to expectation, interns @ HackerNoon don't have to make coffee for their "superiors" and pretend to like their jobs.
Remote work has many positives, but a there is a drawback that can creep in, the feeling of loneliness. This is a shared experience, you are not alone.
Hey! I'm a Software Dev Engineer at McAfee Enterprise; nominated for four 2021 Noonies by writing about Authentication, Remote work, Covid, and Remote Teams.
Play-to-earn economies may have the potential to smooth the transition to a new type of work
Hint: Not As Much As You Think.
Since the start of the pandemic, the tech world has been scrambling to take formerly offline practices and processes online. Sometimes that has meant making better use of existing tools, like Slack. On other occasions, we’ve all been forced to find new ways to do things.
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Ergonomic chairs improve productivity in workspaces, whether it's home workspace or office workspace. Invest in an ergonomic chair now.
Suddenly become a home worker? Then you might be wondering how to do it right. At Heroku, more than half our team works remotely from home offices, cafes, and co-working spaces. Many of the questions you have right now are ones that we’ve been thinking about for years.
Use these virtual team-building activities and icebreakers to connect with your team better and conduct effective remote meetings.
Governments around the world have instituted lockdowns to try and slow the Covid-19 pandemic, saying that only essential workers should be still going into work. But that just raises the question: who is an essential worker in a pandemic?
We all spent a year getting used to remote work; now, the big question is how do we transition back to the in-person work pattern in a new world with Covid-19?
Web certificates are a foundational element of website security, enabling organizations to verify that the web address in question really does belong to them, as well as to keep users secure by encrypting their information. These certificates have become ubiquitous, and most savvy web users now know to look for the telltale indicators of a valid web certificate, which may include a closed padlock or green address bar, depending on the browser used.
Quick remote access to your computer. Secure services that help you connect to your PC remotely through your browser.
When we started MarkUp, a visual collaboration tool for digital content, we expected to see user growth from much of the design and developer communities, because of the problem we are solving in those fields.
One day we will all be developers, won't be?
Software development trends have always been evolving. Here in this post, we have covered essential software development trends to watch in 2022.
Businesses have been overlooking employee wellness for a long time. As organizations started re-opening, they must have actionable employee well-being.
I've read many articles on procrastination and motivation, but I've always found in them a complete or partial misunderstanding of the problem. Or just inconsistency with my realities – after all, people are different. I'm going to describe what I know from my own experience and what helps me personally. Maybe it will help someone else.
I've been working remotely for +2 years now and I've learned a lot about it. Here are 4 lessons I've learned working remotely so far.
Since we're in a unique and ever-evolving working world of the future far sooner than expected, I thought I'd share some of the lessons I've learned in how best to keep consistent and guide your team through turbulent times.
Hello readers, if you are reading this it meansyou want to do something productive in your quarantine time.
For most managers, it is possible to have weekly meetings to bang out issues and team-building exercises to create harmony, but as a remote manager, this is not possible, and the lack thereof can be über-frustrating at times.
Google employees, dissatisfied with return-to-office plans, have begun to seek alternative employment should these plans be carried out.
There are a lot of myths around remote developer teams. We are busting them with the help of some of the best companies in the world.
If you’re thinking about leaving the corporate world and becoming a freelancer, have you considered how that shift might impact your relationship with your wife, husband, or partner?
Building and supporting software does not require you to be in the office every day. Companies like GitLab, Digital Ocean, CircleCI, InVision, and Stripe have realized that remote work gives them a recruiting and productivity advantage over the competition.
These gift ideas will help you surprise graphic designers and show your appreciation of their work.
I’ve been working from home for twenty years.
When you hear the phrase “Best Place to Work,” what companies come to mind? Does your company make that list? If not, you may want to reconsider your company culture to attract top talent who are looking to work at Best Place to Work companies.
The coronavirus or COVID-19 disrupted our way of life and brought the whole world to a standstill. In an effort to keep the economy going while containing the rapid spread of the virus, companies have taken a sensible approach by adopting remote working models.
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A lot has been written about Zoom in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The share price has risen 800% since its IPO, valuing it at $144 Billion, it is well funded, profitable and has attracted some of the smartest people in tech and business into its ranks. Zoom is riding a high that is well deserved. It has an amazing product that cut through a crowded field to do things better than the well-established competition, including the likes of Oracle’s Webex, Google Hangouts and Microsoft’s Skype.
Have you heard of Abraham Maslow? He was a Psychology professor who came up with this super popular framework called 'Hierarchy of Needs' which categorizes human needs into 5 buckets. While the framework itself received a mixed response, being lauded by many and on the other hand being criticised for its vagueness, it surely had a strong influence across many fields and on other researchers.
Like many others, my workplace has been conducting business remotely most of the year.
Being a Freelancer is tempting for many reasons, but mostly because you can do what you love and choose the projects you want to do. You can work with clients you want to work with and there is nobody breathing behind you expecting from you to make more money for them.
How many times the below thing happens to you?
A look at building the network of the future for the flexible work revolution
Apple CEO Tim Cook might want to call it a day with the “hybrid-working pilot.”
Why is it important?
How are we going to work on team spirit in this remote world? While most typical team-building activities don’t work over Zoom, these do.
Distant socializing is becoming the new norm. With the COVID-19 outbreak spreading across the globe, people on all continents are isolating themselves at home to fight the pandemic.
Remote working has gained so much popularity over the years in almost every career field. Even in professions where remote working wasn’t allowed, it has now become the only option due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Working online isn’t difficult, but it’s not so straightforward, either. Here is a detailed guide about everything you need to know about working online.
As the pandemic forces many workers from the office to their home office, the world of work has been changed forever. And while working from home can have many benefits in the long-term for both staff and corporation, it’s not ideal for every business. For example, one major fear at the moment stems from having enough cybersecurity at home.
Now that your teams have acclimated to working remotely every day during the workweek, they've probably started getting into some semblance of a groove. They might even have increased their productivity to unheard-of levels.
Founded in 2011, Double Robotics is the world’s leading provider of telepresence robots. Their first product line is called Double, with the third model, the Double 3, shipping in late September of 2019. Their robots use mixed reality and computer vision to navigate in the real world, avoiding obstacles in their path. Their telepresence robots have been featured in numerous television programs and have received great feedback from big-name customers like MIT Sloan and LinkedIn.
One attribute that distinguishes top-notch remote workers from the amateurs is their ability to manage work from home. You will observe this propensity from the world's best-in-class remote companies, including Apple, Lionbridge, and VIDKid.
Top of the best tools for remote work: Telegram, Getscreen.me, Trello and others. These software needed to work effectively from home.
Did you know that by 2020, it’s expected that there will be 1 million programming jobs unfilled? Unfortunately, great developers are rare to find. If you have tried to hire a developer for your startup, you’d know how difficult it is to find qualified candidates who don’t only have the required skills but also fit your culture.
The corona virus has challenged all aspects of our lives. Healthcare not with standing, one of the biggest challenges has been in trying to keep as much of our lives as possible running as normal. Technology might already have altered the way we work, rest and play for good– but it’s been even more crucial during a period where people are working from home and avoiding large gatherings in the US and the rest of the world. In this post, we’ll look at how tech industry is rising to the corona virus challenge to keep the world moving.
The American workforce is leaving in droves, and companies are struggling to adapt.
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The new Focus Mode feature is a useful tool that helps you get more productivity out of Windows 11 in a simple way. Though that simplicity does cut both ways
It can be tough to make ends meet these days. Thankfully, there are many ways to make extra money without leaving home.
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We built Reintech to remove barriers between Ukrainian software developers and Western companies experiencing a lack of local engineering talent.
Looking for ways to boost your team's performance? Consider three critical principles that will help maximize productivity and avoid burnout in the workplace.
The past six weeks have been challenging. As someone who thrives off social interaction and throwing ideas around in a room of people, working from home has been a huge shift for me both mentally and professionally.
Looking for some effective team-building activities to bring your remote team together?
The excellent proposal is what makes a difference between successful and struggling freelancers.
If you are a part of the IT recruitment industry, then you cannot walk past these 10 recruitment trends shaping your industry.
Thanks to the rapid spread of COVID-19 people have started working remotely out of necessity, as more states order shelter-in-place protocols to fight the spread. A growing list of 20 states, including most of New England and the West Coast, have closed all bars and restaurants to the public, to curb the spread of the deadly virus. With over 4 million people working from home, the internet has allowed many of us to continue business as usual, with a few modifications.
When companies went remote overnight, most thought it would last a month or two, but it has become clear by now that the COVID-19 pandemic has changed not only how we live our everyday lives but how we do our jobs.
A story on wellness retreats and their benefits in today's digital age. How technology takes a toll on us and what to do about it.
Remote Value Realization helps remote companies track the value they are giving out, and thus, the areas to improve upon.
2/28/2023: Top 5 stories on the Hackernoon homepage!
How will nonprofit workspaces be like in the future?
A recent BCG-report highlight that despite the recent cryptocurrency crash, developer activity has continued to sustain. In other words: Developers Never Sleeps
"Keep going; don’t let fear stop you too much. Focus on the fact that every effect has a cause, find out what that cause is."
Brais Méndez, CEO of Docuten, discusses the company's beginnings, what the future holds, and exciting innovations in digital signature and e-invoicing.
One of the most important aspects of building great product organisations is to design a system where builders thrive. A group of well-organized, ambitious yet humble, smart folks is an unstoppable force.
As the world grapples into the arms of COVID-19, companies are suffering a major setback from the remote work culture. Because, let’s be honest, nobody thought that a PANDEMIC would hit us so hard that we’d be facing unemployment, poverty, illness, failed vaccines, and mass deaths.
Here is a short list of some great tools I've discovered over the past year.
A work revolution has been a long time coming, but who would have thought it would take a pandemic to finally usher it in.
I am sharing 10 practical ways to embrace mindfulness, focus on wellness, and maintain your mental well-being while in the office.
web3 isn't just about "the web". It contains more than "web2" with extra features. It changes how we work in the future.
Here a few iOS 15 features below that can enhance your business workflow and smoothen your work processes.
Standing desks can better your relationship with working from home and add more options to how you work.
All in all, I believe that the benefits of remote work outweigh (by a bunch) any challenges that may come with it.
Hiring a remote team can help you create a more diverse workplace, which can bring different perspectives and ideas to the table.
Disconnect and poor communication are key challenges of managing a remote or hybrid development team. As a hybrid team, we share tips on effective management.
Maintaining a healthy work-life balance is also important for staying fit. When you're working from home, you can take breaks when you need to
Don't think that working meetings are a waste of time. Organize the system of working with them effectively following these simple rules.
Tech companies are known for the exciting benefits they offer their employees. Are those benefits enough for top talent?
London has always been a world leader in innovation. From the invention of the first mobile phone, to the creation of a ‘metro’ system that's now used worldwide, London has continually risen as an international tech hub.
Charter Spectrum is one of the largest and most reliable AI- Artifical Intelligence service providers in the United States. Spectrum Internet prices are affordable and their high-speed internet provides consistently reliable download speeds. Spectrum’s download speed is usually faster when compared with other internet providers. You can compare the current plans, speeds and prices that Spectrum Internet has available this month.
To adhere to social distancing guidelines and prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, it isn’t a good idea to have a technician install your Spectrum Internet service for you.
It is easy to do the installation yourself if a cable was previously connected to your home. This prevents you and your family from being exposed to the novel coronavirus, and you will avoid the additional expense incurred when a technician installs it. However, you will need some help and guidance on how to do self-installation, especially if it is your first time doing this.
Consider this being an excellent opportunity for you to lahore smart city how to do a technical installation. You won’t have to adjust your schedule to accommodate the installation time since you will do it at your own convenience. If you get stuck at any time during the process, Charter Communications customer support will help you through the installation process.
The Spectrum Internet self-installation kit is fairly easy to use, since it comes with easy step by step instructions. The package has everything you need to know during the installation of the internet service. You should confirm that the kit has every item required before you start. That way you won't have to stop in the middle of the process because an item is missing.
I read many articles and studies on remote work, tried them on myself, and now decided to share what I found most valuable for myself.
Let's face it, there's a lot that could go wrong in a remote interview. The technical glitches alone could change the whole tone.
A different approach to solving the burnout problem.
Cloud Industry Platforms are front helpers in the advancement of remote work and this article explains how
Alan Tuback & Doug Dagworthy, co-founders Devlos Software and makers of Soluno, legal accounting share how they built a start-up with 100 years of experience.
Nextmv is a Philadelphia startup of the year nominee, and their CEO and cofounder, Carolyn Mooney shares with us their origin story and remote culture secrets.
Optimizing your remote workforce can easily be done using the help of big data analytics, as it can easily point towards time management issues and overwork.
Programmers spend most of their time in front of the computer screen, mostly sitting. While their brain is actively working, their body does not. Even worse, IT emergencies happen quite often, and engineers usually have to monitor systems or code instant fixes far outside regular working hours. All these factors may cause any number of health issues, all of which every IT professional should be aware of.
Document creation apps solve ultimate problems of different professionals in companies from the sales, customer success & support and legal to the management.
In 9 to 5 office jobs, most meetings are scheduled mid-morning, which is the most productive time for Bears, effectively reducing peak performance time by half.
If you’re looking for ideas for being more creative or intentional about celebrating successes and milestones with remote teams, here are four tips.
Remote work is booming largely because of the lockdown. But this way of working has been around for a long time - especially among knowledge workers. During the pandemic, a lot of companies tested remote working for the first time, and most of them do not plan to go back to the office even after the lockdown. However, some holes need to be patched and things taken care of before any founder jumps into remote working permanently.
With the U.S. taking the title of most reported COVID-19 cases in any one nation, staying at home is being pushed more than ever. But staying at home all day every day can have some negative side effects on the mind and body. Social isolation can lead to a multitude of health concerns including heightened risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and stroke. Even just short periods of time alone can increase anxiety and depression after only a few days mainly due to the fact that most people rely on one or two close relationships to help them stay level-headed and secure. This is most common in high income earners, those with a graduate degree, married couples, and people over the age of 65.
Technology is having a profound impact on the way we work and communicate. It enables remote work and helps with communication. However it can be isolating.
These five JetBrains Git Plugins can drastically improve your productivity by adding new features and utilities to assist you with your coding projects
Remote work is global or it’s not remote work at all!
Fact: Freelancing is over 900 years old.
VPNs might be the most common way of creating network security for remote work but Zero Trust Network Access might be a better designed alternative for you.
The work from home (WFH) phenomenon has exploded over the past few years, and it’s culminated during the current pandemic. Many are even saying that the novel coronavirus has thrown us into the largest WFH experiment on earth. But it’s time to face the truth that remote work is no longer an experiment. Nor is it a trend, a fad, or “the future of work.”
As more companies invest in VR hardware and software, it's also starting to carve out its place in traditional office settings. Here are the top uses at work.
Remote work and the associated social distancing is one of the ways to halt the outbreak of coronavirus - an enormous challenge facing the entire world in 2020. While more and more companies urge their employees to shift to working from home, and people eagerly accept the change to avoid public spaces, there are a wealth of concerns regarding what it will all be like:
The year 2020 has started off quite roughly: the new COVID-19 virus, already dubbed as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, spread across the world quite rapidly, already infecting hundreds of thousands and killing tens of thousands of people.
Remote work has become the norm. Developing a remote team culture is vital for organizations. This article tells us how to build and foster remote team culture.
I was trying to explain to my kids why they should be excited about the growth of the remote business model. I’ve worked remotely for most of their lives, so they couldn’t understand what it was like when people went to offices, commuted long hours, and did their work surrounded by others. That’s what motivated me to explain remote work to them in a way they could easily comprehend.
Do you need the law to tell you when is appropriate to text your remote team members?
In this post, you’ll find 10 tech tips and hacks to make remote working productive and fun.
Slack is where the world’s conversations happen! Here are my top picks of hot🔥 new useful apps from innovative startups which are making waves on Slack.
5 great JetBrains plugins that will make you and your dev team more productive in a remote setup: GitLive, Code Time, Git Machete, Stepsize, Smart Search.
In the age of remote work, access management has become one of the most important- and difficult- tasks for IT professionals.
COVID-19 has undoubtedly exacerbated the feeling, but who else thinks collaborating or merely communicating with your teammates on code is far from convenient, especially when it comes to quick problem resolution?
The Great Resignation is already fast-forwarding mass adaption of AI, both to support current employees and to compensate for the ongoing labor shortage.
Learn what makes product management possible as a remote worker.
Inspired by scavenger hunts, GooseChase is an online platform that enables you to create exceptional experiences for your communities. Meet CEO Andrew Cross.
California has experienced increased outbound migration over the past few years with more and more people working remotely.
Technology - often portrayed as an industry that the benefits only the privileged - is actually helping with the fight against the coronavirus. And we don’t mean Medtech.
Today, the demand for remote IT teams is growing at a breakneck pace, and considering the recent COVID-19 outbreak that has led businesses into extreme work challenges reflecting the rise of engineering requirements.
5G is the latest network connectivity experience that you can get. It comes along with a variety of benefits and possibilities. In fact, you can use 5G to achieve things that you couldn’t do with the help of 4G. Therefore, it is worthy to take a look at 5G and get a better overall understanding about all the possibilities that it can offer.
Wow. What a year! With everything from a pandemic to an election, it’s hard to believe that 2020 is (finally) coming to an end and that we are looking ahead to what the next 12 months will bring. It’s no secret that in 2021 we will continue to see drastic changes to personal and work life as we know it, and it’s safe to say that the technology market will continue to change and evolve, as well as our definition of “normal” for work.
This economy’s income inequality is well documented. The pandemic has begun to accelerate the widening of this gap. Those who are able to work during a lockdown are HEAVILY advantaged. Now that it appears the United States has squandered the benefits of a lockdown, one has to accept the fact there will be more lockdowns.
The interest in IoT applications is set to explode as more organisations look to solutions to enable remote work.
In the following sections, we will discuss how we can use an additional monitor alongside our laptop using a cable, and how to find the right cable.
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is causing many companies to ask their employees to work from home. Apple, Twitter, and Facebook are some high-profile names that have closed their offices in an effort to protect their workers and curb the spread of the deadly disease.
Today’s overwhelming and unlimited access to information, in the broadest sense, courtesy of the Internet, often leaves us unable to isolate the noise. There is a lot of it. Should I learn X, or Y? Or is Z more worth it to spend time on, since insert group of people have been using that?
Developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s, the Pomodoro technique calls for using a timer to break down work into 25-minute intervals separated by short 5-minute breaks. After four sessions of work, the Pomodoro technique prescribes a longer 30-minute break.
Finding a remote job can be hard when you don’t know the best websites to go to. This list of remote job sites will help you find a work-from-home job easily.
When it comes to working and managing projects, the best way to do so is by setting up an office and communicating in person. However, with the current state of affairs, it is highly unlikely that most corporations would even consider the possibility of risking the health and safety of others and themselves, and so most companies have switched to other means of working - working remotely.
Working remotely has become a common choice among young people. Remote work comes with benefits such as no stress for commute, more family time, a boost in productivity, and many other cost-related savings.
I asked 200 cross-functional development teams how well their developers and non-developers communicate and collaborate while developing products together.
A 2018 study by BCG found that companies with diverse management teams generate 19% more revenue through innovation than management teams with below-average diversity scores.
From yoga classes to worldwide webinars, Zoom community has been expanding all around the world after the global lockdown due to COVID-19.
In a fast-moving, ever-changing, dynamic work environment, the ability to collaborate effectively isn’t a necessity, it’s a superpower.
Telehealth has taken the medical industry by storm since COVID-19 began. The pandemic might be winding down, but telehealth is here to stay for the future.
Challenges and opportunities in the current global economy are as numerous and as full of potential as they haven’t been in a long time. We are venturing into the unknown in regards to the future socio-economic situation.
Most U.S. employees now work from home temporarily because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Employees say the top advantages of working remotely are no commute and a more flexible schedule, while the biggest challenges are lack of collaboration and frequent interruptions.
Know how Slack is revolutionizing the future of work and helping to improve the productivity of employees.
Virtual happy hour sessions give your participants an opportunity to interact and get to know each other better in an informal setting.
Here are some of the reasons you should create a plan and layout your project before you get started.
We wrote a blog post about why Courier would never be permanently remote. This post covers why we changed our minds and Courier is now a remote-first company.
Hybrid events are the combination of virtual and physical events, have a look at some tips and tricks to help you host an immersive hybrid event.
You have many good intentions at the start of the day, but before you know it, one request comes on top of another and you have a day full of meetings.
I started writing because the generous community of programmers had helped me by sharing their knowledge freely over the Internet. I wanted to contribute to this incredible trend so I could be a part of something bigger than myself.
Is remote work just a fad caused by COVID-19 or is it here to stay? Here are some data-backed reasons why remote work is not going away any time soon.
82% of business leaders plan to continue letting employees work from home
More than 140 countries have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. According to stats, 85K+ people have been affected and the numbers are expected to rise.
Brad Michelson is an NYC-based marketer, regular top contributor to Hacker Noon, and 2020 Noonie Nominee. Scroll down to find out why Brad's into writing about fintech, and what his personal strategy is when it comes to failure.
Remote work has become a common practice across the globe. Even 5 years ago, the scenario was entirely different. Organizations were worried that this trend could tarnish their employees’ performance. However, as technology evolved at a rapid pace, so did everything else revolving around it. Now people at the workplace communicate more over Slack or Zoom than they do in person. It’s not a trend anymore. It’s a necessity.
Sharing some fun times at a cool place to work for body, soul and sanity.
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Augmented Reality technology can improve customer experience, thus creating an environment of interaction between agents and clients.
The Future Of Remote Work Starts With The Desktop
You are the only one responsible for your life.
“Is remote work more environmentally friendly?
Disruption is the name of the game these days, from current remote work settings due to COVID-19 to even more normal, every-day disruptions (like the process of moving and renovating a home, which I’m currently experiencing first-hand). As a habit-driven developer myself, I have come to the realization that the stable work environment I’ve come to rely on is no more.
Learn how to use SIP trunking to improve connectivity and remote team management, while increasing collaboration and efficiency with distributed teams.
Saving money and running a sensible budget has long been important to most people. However, as additional challenges and pressures develop throughout this year, this is becoming more critical than ever for more people. Saving money on a large scale is not always easy, however, there are many small steps you can take to save cash as part of your daily life.
What do you do when your product isn’t encrypted? Change how encryption to is commonly understood.
Covid-19 has thrown us into an era of great uncertainty. Every industry has been impacted by the devastating pandemic in some way or another, and there’s no sign of a return to normal life in the pipeline any time soon.
Time management does not mean managing time, rather it means managing yourself. Well, we have a 24 hours time span every day, but how we will use the time depends entirely on us. Time management can help you to use the time precisely and handle your work within your assigned time. You need to plan the work first, then track and manage your work.
IMHO Slack doesn’t scale. The more people in a Slack workspace, the noisier it becomes. What should my startup build as an alternative?
The traditional workspace is gradually changing to a remote workspace. But what is driving the transformation of remote workspaces, technology or strategy?
As organizations continue to embrace remote working, the need to keep teams collaborating becomes necessary. Unlike a traditional office where people can socialize, allocating assignments is done in-person, and brainstorming sessions happen in the conference room, these can only be done virtually in remote working. That is why video conferencing tools are important for any remote team. For your team to benefit from video conferencing, however, the video conferencing app of choice should have features such as screen sharing, whiteboarding, file sharing, and chat options among others. Here are the top 5 video conferencing apps that will help your team feel like they are working next to each other.
Here are 6 ways to battle the feeling of isolation and loneliness while working from home.
With the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more employees have had to work from home, creating new cybersecurity challenges for businesses. Some workers will have to relearn everything about cybersecurity because they must keep their work documents and email secure even on their home network.
An overview of the top ten things affecting your remote team culture in 2022.
Leading and motivating remote teams will be crucial to being a successful leader in this new hybrid world. Let’s explore how to be a good leader today.
How to improve your focus - especially as a software developer. Book review of Deep Work by Cal Newport.
Have you switched to remote work in the past couple of weeks/days? Well, chances are high you have, or you will. I want to share my words of caution and tips to make pandemic remote work better.
Denis Lagutenko - an entrepreneur, the founder of several projects in the fields of the Internet and affiliate marketing, as well as the owner of the manicure network WOW NAIL, one of the first who did not wait for the government guidance on quarantine and switched his companies to remote work before the official announcement.
IBM estimates that in 2021 a data breach incident costs enterprises $4.24 million on average. Even though the workforce is returning to offices in varying capacities, research on the topic indicates that managers are planning for a hybrid work future. According to Gartner, 82% of business leaders plan to let employees continue to work from home (WFH) in at least some capacity, while 47% plan to allow employees to do so permanently.
Zoom fatigue is plaguing productivity. Explore fun and data-driven ways to overcome the challenge and to add some personality to your next zoom call.
Why is the exclusive focus on Zoom, when the same “flaw” impacts almost all popular video conferencing apps?
On this episode of the HackerNoon podcast, Amy Tom and Michael Brooks get into everything freelance. They dive into https://golance.com, Michael’s freelance marketplace company. How it came about and Michael’s insights on running it. They talk about wild experiences like getting kicked out of Belarus and taking a shot of Brandy first thing every morning before work in Serbia. It’s a wild ride and you definitely should tune in! Brandy or coffee in hand, your choice ;) 🍻
Working remotely is now standard practice at offices around the globe.
Many remote team management theories offer the following model structure. It starts with:
Times have changed and the global IT domain has now shifted to a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) model wherein employees are encouraged to bring their own devices to the office and stay connected. The biggest enabler in this has been the apps based on the cloud that can be accessed from any location- all you need is internet access.
TL;DR: It's time to spring clean your work-life, and make space for joy. Get rid of extraneous work, add a bit of mindfulness, and the WFH world is yours. You can do this regardless of who you are, but if you are the CEO or in a managerial position, the imperative is much higher.
Some gig jobs flourished directly as a result of the pandemic. As the US moves beyond COVID-19, freelance will play an important role in recovery.
We all know startups are supposed to solve problems. And, 2020 has been a record-setting year for problems.
The pandemic has changed the rules of the game, influencing how we take care of our health, our leisure, and especially how we work.
Remote work is on everyone’s minds right now. If you are fortunate enough to still have a job right now chances are you are doing it remotely. And you’ve probably learned that you can do your job pretty well from home - just as well as you did in the office if not better. And why is that? It’s certainly not because of the added stress of a pandemic. Could it be because your management team actually trusts you to get it done?
The predictions of post-COVID future paint all sorts of wild images, from empty and sterile offices to work-from-home utopias. Without any in-depth analysis, it’s clear none of those extremes will come true. However, what’s also clear is that there will be an impact. In fact, some changes are already in motion, so a good way to be prepared for them is to recognize the ones that matter.
Picture Michael Scott in a Virtual Remote Culture
Here is a list of some of the best tech upgrades you should consider adding to your business this year.
In this article, you'll find some important items to add to your hybrid team meeting agenda
In this article, You will learn the benefits of asynchronous communication for remote workers.
If 2021 was the buzz of Web3, in 2022 we will understand more about the huge impact of emerging technologies on decentralized economy & remote workforce.
Zuckerberg is in the news lately for his announcement about his plans to take his workforce remote.
The corona-virus outbreak continues to spread throughout the world. More and more companies are seizing their public operations and business owners all over are encouraging their employees to work from home. The Times calls this the “World's Largest Work-From-Home Experiment” and unlike some companies that were prepared for this, many are diving in headfirst, without any time to prepare.
Getting and hiring the right remote worker can be a difficult task, for most businesses and organizations.
Instead of high-fiving Upwork, I will give you five reasons why this naming is controversial.
For those of you who are Tinder users or just watchful to the tech news, you should know that the App is offering the option to match with anyone in the entire world, helping people to have virtual dates during this time of pandemic crisis.
Francis Lacoste is a Senior Director, Software Engineering at Salesforce Heroku. During Live Ask Me Anything session with Hacker Noon community he shared his experience working remote for over 20 years and main lessons he learned from it.
In Francis’s own words:
In this article, we will tell you the top five myths related to remote working you should know. Let’s dive in.
Why one should be flexible in working from anywhere in the world that has a functional internet connection to become more successful in their life and wrok.
Learn what remote assistance and remote desktop are and how they differ in the process of aiding users in this article aligned with a few recommended tools.
Last month, I launched the app on Show HN. As a result, it got 82 points and 78 comments. Ranked in the toppest 10 of popular posts in a day also. Actually, we have pros and cons about it and people tend to criticize it more. Anyway, it felt so amazing that a lot of the people across the world visited my website and said hi to me. What an exciting moment! Today, I’d like to share how to develop and launch a landing page.
As the world of work rapidly becomes “remote-first”, and our reliance on virtual tools grows daily, cybersecurity has emerged as an urgent priority for almost every employer.
How Amazonian thinking and communication tools are turning me into a remote work optimist.
Every year in the United States,construction spending goes up. Is your business ready for these increased costs? As your schedule continues to fill up, you'll need to focus on growing your business as opposed to managing day-to-day tasks, especially if some of these daily tasks can be automated.
The year 2020 changed office dynamics altogether. Employees all around the globe are working from home, with the concept of remote working finding relevance and becoming immensely popular. But this practice has been a working model for developers for ages. Nevertheless, remote working has its shares of cons, if you don’t understand the concept thoroughly. We'll highlight best practices you can adopt proven to aid in managing your remote working team.
The Cyberboard is a series of futuristic and artistic Bluetooth mechanical keyboards designed and produced by Angry Miao.
Okay – I know thats an excessively dramatic title, but I wanted to emphasize a simple but important concept. I believe that normalizing remote work isn’t a single problem to be solved, but rather a number of distinct issues that need to be tackled separately.
Recently, one of our Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) noticed a workload running in our cluster which he hasn’t seen before. The workload was consuming some resources and the SRE wanted to apply some updates to the cluster but was not sure who owns the workload, and doesn’t know if his updates would have an impact on it or not.
As companies across the world continue to take precautions against COVID-19, many teams find themselves "suddenly remote" and adjusting to a new set of challenges on top of their daily work. At Exponent, we've been operating as a remote team for most of the past year, with engineers, designers, and PMs spread across several time zones—not to mention thousands of users around the world who are part of our Slack community and Interview Practice forum.
ID protection can never be a reactionary activity. It needs to remain proactive and innovative in order to keep remote workers safe.
Tom works in the estimating department of a mid-sized plumbing contractor. As he walks in the door Tuesday morning, he gets hit with the following:
Here is a list of reasons why I won't relocate just because of a job offer.
How do you conduct effective remote interviews? Looking for remote interview tips?
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, millions of people have suddenly had to relocate their office to their own homes. In normal times, around 8 million Americans work from home, but in just a few days, that number has multiplied, and then multiplied again.
“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Statistics about startup funding show that 77% of small businesses rely on personal savings for their initial funds. One-third of such companies use less than $5,000, while $10,000 is generally needed to get a business started. Only 0.05% of startups raise venture capital.
It’s been two weeks since we took action and made working from home mandatory for all the team members. Our top priority remains the health and safety of our team members. We have a responsibility to support our communities through the health crisis caused by COVID-19.
Hybrid events are predicted to dominate 2022.
The Great Resignation might be waning among knowledge workers. Enter: The Great Disengagement.
The motivations to return to work might have less to do with worker productivity and more to do with middle managers trying to justify their existence.
I’ll not deny it. I love being in a physical office with coworkers. I love being around people with the same objectives and challenges. It gives me strength and motivation.
Here's what to understand about the "future of work" particularly for jobseekers.
Freedom is the most expensive word in freelancing.
So, what features should your first or next coworking space have? Learn how to find the perfect spot.
Here are three tools your startup needs to become a remote company and successfully transition your employees to work from home.
Ever scrolled your twitter feed and wondered how everything works. Writing a tweet, refreshing the feed, deleting a tweet, and editing tweets. Does twitter really have an edit feature? That's a topic for another day. Over the past years, I have always felt the urge to know all about software development.
During the peak of the ICO “boom”, AmaZix had over 150 industry-leading team members working from their sofas, beds, in cafes, pubs, libraries, park benches, log cabins in the woods, on boats, in treehouses, spas, theme parks and all kinds of other locations all while doing their jobs to the very highest of levels. This is something that we are very proud of.
I used to be the biggest proponent of working remotely.
Remote interviews allow companies same time and money on travel expenses, while determining whether a candidate should be hired.
A simple hack on your browser that can get you more focused and keep you out of web browsing rabbit holes.
If you're looking for ways to get more done and stay productive at home, music can help you achieve this goal.
According to Blind, white-collar tech professionals have lost 100,826 jobs so far this year. Here is how you can avoid getting laid off this time.
Only recently it became possible to code outdoors. The internet is available everywhere through LTE, and portable power is available through good laptop batteries. Although my 2012 MacBook Pro can't last beyond two hours, I found a portable lithium AC generator on Amazon that lasts me all day.
If you’re working remotely for the first time and feeling fatigued, believe us, we know what you're experiencing.
This article addresses things to take note of, before you switch jobs to avoid the "Great regret"
We've collected 56 retention tips from software developers and compared them with the ones from the Internet. Check out what the conclusions are!
Few reasons why people leave their jobs and several ways to save your current team during the Great Resignation.
Let’s take a look at the best JetBrains plugins that can seriously improve your remote working routine.
With remote work becoming more popular, it is easier than ever for companies to have data stolen. Read here for 4 data protection tips for remote teams.
At SourceLevel, we're in a privileged spot to gather some data on how software engineering teams are dealing with COVID-19, home office, social distancing, and so on.
Having a remote team in the project will lower expenses and make hiring easier. It will lead to many operational challenges too. Let's see how to address them.
As the technology sector expands, there are exponential opportunities for people from all backgrounds and disciplines to carve out new careers for yourself.
In our rapidly evolving work-from-anywhere world, employee downtime and productivity are rising concerns.
While this anecdote is from my own experience, I firmly believe that most of us been in this situation before. One day, you decide to learn something new. Perhaps you want to learn how to code, so you pick the hottest language of the moment. It's a language that "pays the most", works like magic, and everyone is looking for people that know it.
When you’re collaborating with your team, you don’t care about files. You care about the people. So why do companies put so much effort into developing tools and systems when they should be designing for interactions and relationships?
Prevent malicious agents from exploiting their VPN connections! However, it's still critical for each employee to exercise cyber hygiene to ensure cybersecurity
Under normal circumstances, the switch to remote work can benefit teams and companies. his sudden switch was unprecedented, and challenging to navigate.
Connecting to remote desktop users from China. What remote access program choose to bypass the blocking and how to translate during the session.
The hybrid work model is appearing more and more often in companies' return-to-office plan. What is it and how do you prepare your team for this new norm?
A lot has changed since I shared my last article related on COVID-19 (the most recent strain of coronavirus), and how AI and Blockchain professionals and industry experts are tackling the crisis.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world to a standstill. With over 5 million global cases and counting, the medical professionals from all over the world have joined hands to find a vaccine. However, until that happens, the only precaution that can be taken is to stay at home.
As I write this on April 18, 2020, there are over 156,000 global deaths due to COVID-19, which is actually a tiny percent, however, this disease is incredibly communicable and is still not well understood.
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced life to shift online,modern tech was a saving grace. Team collaboration software allowed newlydistributed workforces to organize themselves, VPN provided access to workplace networks, and Zoom calls covered everything from sales meetings to Yoga classes.
An interview with a talented software developer who is also blind brings the reader into his world and helps us all see why accessibility matters.
Global Remote Work Can Be Scary, But It Doesn't Have To Be! Omnipresent shares tips on how to face your fears about global remote work just in time for Hallow.
With the adoption of remote work by a greater percentage of the workforce post-pandemic, most companies face issues that were not necessarily present before now
I am sure you would have thought to yourself, "How has COVID-19 impacted our lives?" Particularly, just like me, you would be curious to know the impact on our work-life.
What would you do if your employer suddenly announced that everyone needed to work from the office? Just kidding, it's just a really good joke.
While working from home has many benefits, it also has the potential for certain drawbacks. Burnout is a serious risk while working from home.
Here is everything you might want to know about what a management consultant does and how much someone can earn in the role.
These are the 22 Top Tech Companies filling remote job positions in 2021. The list includes Citrix, Oracle, and more.
Remote workers will be drained very soon — both cognitively & emotionally, if not helped by innovative approaches to collaboration.
Working as a salesperson has gotten pretty difficult – especially this year. Many have had to stay home, use video conferencing platforms, and making video calls to engage with prospects.
Why does remote work succeed in some teams yet fails in others? We will attempt to answer this question by examining why remote teams fail to begin with.
Businesses around the world have never been so vulnerable to cyber attacks associated with a pandemic.
How would I sum up 2021?
How to be a React Native Developer
In traditional roles the employees are accountable to a hierarchy of managers and those who have the power to make decisions from within the organization. Web3 turns this on its head and now projects within a more decentralized world are accountable to the community first, essentially reversing the power structure that employees would be familiar with.
In recent years, remote working has become less of a concept and more of a reality. In lieu of traditional office space, full-time employees and freelancers alike are occupying home-offices, WeWork hot desks, and tables at their local life-source outlets (read: cafés selling coffee). Many progressive thinkers at the forefront of business forecasting, like Naval Ravikant, are professing that a digitally-facilitated, remote working environment is the next logical step for contemporary businesses looking to up their productivity output. However, is this just optimistic theorizing, or is there an actual basis for the distributed workplace to, well, work in the long-term?
Remote work and freelance can mess up your life. Here's why and what you should do.
It's March 2020. I'm 5 months into a new role as Director of Sales at Preciate when the pandemic hits and sends us all home. I had really valued joining a startup with a physical office presence and face-to-face interaction, especially after having worked remotely for 3.5 years at my last startup.
No matter if you started working remotely during the pandemic or you've been part of the gig economy long before - you’ll often wonder how to increase your team productivity while working remotely.
Levin shares his views on hiring remote tech talent, the benefits and challenges of remote hiring, and strategies for finding and retaining remote talent.
In this article, we will explain the role of HR in helping employees solve mental health problems and see what HR is doing to address this issue.
COVID-19 has had a significant effect on nearly every facet of life, including the way we work. And while much of the impact that the crisis has brought to the workforce has been negative, including massive layoffs, meteoric spikes in employee burnout and a dizzying need for continuous adaptation, there’s also an enormous amount of newfound opportunity for workers.
Working remotely means managing a lot of work, and all you want to do is manage your time efficiently.
Remote working isn’t becoming popular. It already is. The number of people who work remotely in the US has increased by 140% since 2005, with 34% of US workers saying they would take a pay cut of up to 5% in order to work from home.
Believe it or not, the number of freelancers in the United Kingdom has shot up by more than 48% in less than ten years. In fact, studies show that remote workers now have a widespread presence across every industry and these figures continue to grow rapidly.
Searching for platforms for web developer remote jobs to get hired? If yes, then you will be get hired by the end of the day. Building visually attractive websites that feature user-friendly design as well as clean navigation is the role working as web developer. It covers lots of main activates such as responsible for designing, coding and modifying websites, from layout to function and as per the clients needs or mentioned specifications.
This blog from Paul Graham beautifully articulates why meetings kill productivity for people in the "maker's schedule":
Quite often, studying of students at home is quite difficult for them. After all, when they came to the university building to the lecture hall, it was much easier for them to focus on their studies. After all, the whole atmosphere and other students and teachers contribute to this. There is no such atmosphere at home, and students need to find the right ways to focus on their studies. If you have such problems, then here you can find some useful tips. that will help you focus on your studies.
Hiring freelance developers can provide you with many benefits over hiring full-time software developers. The most important benefit of hiring a freelance developer is that they are more affordable. Companies can avoid spending money on a yearly salary and benefits, and instead just pay for the work being done on their project.
There is also a global network of talent that can be provided to you by utilizing freelance platforms, which we will discuss shortly. Working with a freelance developer allows your company’s operations to stay lean because you can hire freelance developers as needed and cut down on expenses.
COVID 19’s impact in the tech sector highlights its importance in today’s circumstances, increased demand for consumer solutions, need for extra support and security, and clamor for more online services.
It is important that all companies acquire a good, functional, responsive meeting room that encompasses all the necessary solutions to support hybrid work.
The new normal of remote work is here. While the option to work from home was available at many organizations before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, this way of working has become a forced reality in certain industries. Lockdown restrictions are starting to ease up, but many companies are still enforcing or allowing their teams to work from home full- or part-time.
COVID-19 has severely challenged a core tenet of the Agile movement: the importance of face-to-face communication. But instead of slowing Agile teams down, herein lies an opportunity to improve the fundamentals of an efficient workplace, writes Clifford Berg
A recent Threatpost poll found that 40 percent of the companies transitioning to WFH experienced a spike in cyberattacks. The survey concluded that patching and updating are among the top challenges for employees when securing their remote footprint.
The number of students not attending schools or universities due to the outbreak of the coronavirus COVID-19 is growing rapidly. This is why governments around the world have decided to convert education to electronic form. While the Covid-19 pandemic significantly pushed the digitalization of the learning process, it also exposed major stumbling blocks in this way.
Let’s take a look at how businesses can encourage employees to better look after their data securely while on the go.
Who says WFH means staying chained to your desk? Try WFCampsite this summer and check out some of the most amazing National Parks the U.S. has to offer.
Full-fledged remote work has become a global trend. The trend of a remote team (virtual team) has become popular with top world companies such as Skype, Slack, Github, MySQL, Opera, Groove, and others. In the world, there are quite a lot of large companies operating completely remotely. Businesses that implement remote work policies see increased efficiency, productivity, and fulfillment from their employees. So why do companies choose remote or distributed teams for software development?
Living with anxiety can be difficult and in some regions anxiety is classified as a disability. However, employers can help employees with anxiety work better.
Organizing a brainstorming session doesn’t have to be a complete disconcerting event in your agenda.
Working remotely has become familiar with fewer people working in offices and more from their own homes. Freelancers generally set their own work hours.
Why team retreats are becoming essential when working remotely: TeamOut founder Thomas Mazimann
Project Management for a team is an important task at the best of times. Many processes make a project successful- scheduling, planning, executing, and other stages. However, project management can get trickier when your team is distributed across the world and working remotely.
Do you want to find remote work in tech? Find out the most essential tips, tools and resources to help you prepare yourself and your CV for tech roles.
14 predictions when it comes to remote work in 2030. Working from anywhere is far more than a workplace trend; it is shaping the decade and future state of work
In this article, we'll talk about the importance of developer communities and interacting with them, both for yourself and others involved.
COVID-19 made sure that even the staunchest opposition to remote working saw flames this year. It was a question of: Either you offer your team a chance to work from home or say goodbye to your small and medium enterprise.
In this blog, you come to realize remote working usability checking out is a notable manner to check your product earlier than and after launch!
Working from home — WFH in short — is one of the most debated topics these days. Recent events have compelled many organizations to close their offices and force their employees to work from home. All aspects of the working experience are now being done remotely.
2020 is a year of unprecedented things. COVID-19 (coronavirus) has already infected more than 2 million people worldwide and it is not slowing down. Because of the mandatory quarantine and social distancing, many people are working from home for the first time in their lives.
In the early months of 2020, companies found themselves rapidly transitioning their business models from in-person to remote work.
Despite being a longtime lightning rod for controversy, even Twitter employees were caught off-guard by recent events.
Globally, COVID-19’s impact has been seen throughout all aspects of life. One such clear way is through remote work. In order to control the spread of the virus and to keep employees safe, many companies are restricting travel and requiring people to work from home.
The number of COVID-19 cases are on the rise and as a precautionary measure many countries have shut their doors to practice social distancing. The isolation and complete shutdown of the operations are taking a toll on the corporate world. With most of the people or workforce confined to their homes, companies are left with no choice but to go with WFH strategy.
A month ago saying that running a company through the crisis caused by this pandemic has been hard would be an understatement. I’m sure this has been unchartered territory for most of us. I mean, most workplaces don’t even have work from home policies that they had to design from scratch.
We never could have predicted the events of 2020 that would shape our world and change the global corporate workforce as we know it. For a corporate culture agency specializing in corporate retreats and travel, the closing of borders and grounding of flights was daunting, to say the least. However, we chose to rise to the challenge and pivoted from connecting people through travel, to doing so in the virtual world when that became the only option.
Long-term strategic planning is a remnant of the past that can’t reflect the fast pace of the digital world we live in today. Companies that implement an Agile approach, shift to delivering results in a short time all the while remaining flexible enough to adjust to any changes as they come. This calls for a completely different attitude in planning with the focus on short term goals that spin out for no longer than a few weeks or even days. Moreover, Scaled Agile helps manage the growing complexity and scaling of businesses to any size and number of distributed teams introducing new methods and tools, one such being Program Increment planning or PI planning for short.
A look at how to update the old passwords model to support the future of distributed work.
Here, we'll walk you through the 6 steps you can take to make your virtual event truly engaging and unique to your attendees.
Although WFH is now the new normal because of COVID, managing a remote startup presents unique challenges. As first-time founders of a fully-distributed team, this is the advice and playbook we wish we read when we started out on this journey.
As this year's nominee for the Most Controversial Writer of the Year Hacker Noon Award, I couldn't possibly wish for better circumstances and time to write this story.
This is a story about how I won ‘Pioneer’ and what I learned during this program. Pioneer is a fully remote accelerator and it’s a community where entrepreneurs/indie makers help each other improve their own businesses.
Many teams are preparing to return to office at least part time. This means more face-to-face collaboration and communication. But with some teammates still distant or geographically scattered, hybrid in-person/remote meetings are becoming more common, potentially for longer periods.
Disclaimer: the author has no vested interest in the brands mentioned here.
We’ve found ourselves living in somewhat unfamiliar times. Coronavirus has pushed many of us into working from home, whether we’re capable of facilitating WFH work or not.
BlueDot, a Toronto-based artificial intelligence company, was first to spot the mysterious virus causing pneumonia in Wuhan. On December 30, their systems, backed by machine learning algorithms, flagged the outbreak of a new infectious disease. They alerted hospitals, governments, businesses, and other clients from the private sector about the danger.
A look at how facial recognition innovation helps avoid costly time and error issues with manual time tracking.
Vita Baryshnikova is a Head of HR at Skyeng where 90% of employees and contractors work remotely. Vita shares her experience of creating effective processes for remote teams. These simple tips can help you prevent burnout and add transparency to your work.
Here are the know the reasons behind the US government's positive stance on remote work policies.
It turns out that “mortal-virtual-sins” include “joining a call late, having a bad Internet connection, accidentally sharing sensitive information" and more.
If you are anything like me, you would jump at every possible chance to the whiteboard and scribble. If there's a brainstorming or discussion happening, I need a whiteboard - doesn't matter if I am listening or talking.
Top 21 Companies Hiring for full time , Remote Work-from Home Jobs
Chances are, your business’ primary mode of internal communication is email. And you’re using instant messaging (IM) apps for virtual meetups and updates from the team, thanks to the coronavirus. Don’t get me wrong, email is great and all for internal communication (if you lived in the 20th century that is). But did you know your email to your teammates gets lost in a sea of unimportant emails? And irrelevant emails account for about 62% of the total emails in an average inbox!
TL;DR: All Hacker Noon full time employees and long-term part-time contractors are now eligible to enter our fully-funded Mental Health initiative. Plus a few tips on how to make Remote Work work.
Just about everyone who can is working from home now. And while we're lucky to work in an industry that already works from home regularly and easily, there are still some aspects of being in an office that are difficult to replace. One of them is the stand-up meeting.
With more and more companies electing to adopt a hybrid work model to accommodate a growing need for workplace flexibility, mastering the art of the hybrid meeting or conference has become a necessity. We sat down with Emmy award winning on-camera communications expert, Karin M. Reed, and Meetings Scientist and organizational psychologist, Joseph A. Allen, PhD., co-authors of the new book, Suddenly Hybrid: Managing the Modern Meeting, to discuss the how the 2020 pandemic has forever changed the way we use technology to communicate at work.
Read about the 7 Benefits of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) for the Accounting Industry & know the advantages of the cloud-hosted desktop.
Given the current climate, we gave a few tools that every company serious about growth should be familiar with.
How I used Figma to run a comprehensive workshop with my team. Here are my thoughts on what works, what doesn’t, and how to go about building the remote workshop tools of the future.
This article explains how Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence have been pushing remote work forward through technological advancements in core tasks.
The HackerNoon staff and community talk about their favorite tech podcasts, playlists, and even video game soundtracks that get them through the day
A look at how and why the hybrid blend of remote work and in person office experience may be the future of work.
10 Simple steps on How to Boost Your Digital Security During Remote Work to prevent phishing and hacker attacks.
AR Smart Glasses while being used by employees for working more effectively show the features of a perfect device that helps to create corporate values for.....
I caught up with Sergei Serdyuk, VP of Product Management at Nakivo to talk about the importance of data backup and recovery for Office 365.
Employee wellness programs have become a staple in many companies as a way to attract top talent, keep them happy and productive, and decrease employee turnover.
Feelings of isolation and loneliness have spiked in the past few months with most people now stuck at home with the outbreak of COVID-19. However, even before the pandemic, Americans still felt this isolation and loneliness - more than half of American adults said that they felt alone, at least some of the time. All generations, from Gen Z and Millennials to Gen X and Baby Boomers still feel lonely. Working at home may be a culprit for loneliness - remote workers are more likely to feel lonely as compared to traditional workers. K-12 teachers are the least likely to feel lonely - but with millions of students being sent home and online school taking over, this may be changing.
The recent mass shift to remote work will likely have lasting effects on how businesses run. Companies will sustain a work-from-home model, at least partially, so security professionals must adapt to this new workflow. One of the best ways to ensure remote team security is with a zero-trust model.
Since this virus is so contagious that it spreads to other people by contact, the only way possible to curb its spread is to stay away from other people. To help you understand how dangerous this virus is, you need to have a look at Italy. Italy reported its 1st positive case on Feb 20 and till the date, it has One Hundred Four Thousand positive cases with more than Twenty Thousand deaths.
Understanding the severity of the situation, authorities have requested everyone to stay at their home and refrain from going outside. To promote this, companies have advised their employees to work from their home
Remote work (also called telework or telecommuting), has been growing in popularity over the past twenty years. Many organizations allow for flexible worksites on some level: employees work remotely for part of the week, as-needed for minor illness, or when school or childcare is unavailable. However, with a major health concern on the rise, companies of all sizes (including tech giants such as Twitter, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft) have transitioned some or all employees to remote work to keep business moving while limiting unnecessary exposure to COVID-19.
For modern tech companies like Amazon and Apple, the infrastructure and policy need for remote working are unquestionably already in place and the vast majority of staff members are probably already laptop users.
For smaller organizations, however, the situation is likely to be different. Remote working is limited to software development and marketing companies. The education sector is a good case in point: universities have been delivering distance learning as a feature for some time, while high schools and others are mainly dependent on staff and pupils being on-site to learn.
DevOps giant GitLab are one of the leading fully remote tech companies. They have produced a ‘Remote Playbook’ to guide companies looking to adopt remote workin
Here are 5 tips for managing the remote sales teams more effectively to increase their productivity.
Today, I want to talk to you about the life of information and how that fundamentally impacts remote working.
6 Technologies That Will Make Working From Home Inevitable in The Future. From social media to virtual reality.
A look at how to engage in the future of work through digital workspaces
Could the forced remote work of COVID19 bring about new growth and a more fair work-life balance?
The next few months will be the most uncertain period business owners have faced. The coronavirus will change the economy and how we work. But I’ve been preparing for this time for more than a decade.
A list of the best VS code extensions.
Illustration by Mat Voyce
Are you “Zoomed Out” and looking for a new way to engage with your remote teams in this age of COVID? Sure, I’m grateful that Zoom, Slack, Skype, and other resources have made it possible to meet with people remotely.
Virtual events are nothing new. Yet COVID-19 has people scrapping travel itineraries and signing up for online sessions, workshops, and classes. Instead of a crowded expo floor, they'll be watching educational and informational sessions in their homes.
In this article, you'll find some amazing techniques to improve employee engagement and mental wellness.
These unprecedented times have pushed us to adapt distinctive lifestyles contrary to what we’ve been used to for a millenia. Industries like finance, law, banking and the public sector where culture has traditionally frowned upon working-from-home, are compelled to succumb to such mandates out of necessity. As much rampant the unfortunate layoffs, hiring freezes, and budget cuts across travel and hospitality industries are, data breaches have been on a steady rise. And this is an important observation that we can’t afford to overlook.
Work From Home and Remote working is now the new normal across the globe. The Covid-19 outbreak has widely impacted businesses all over the world. Organizations need to initially focus on employees’ well being with regard to this pandemic and take the required steps to revive their productivity and sustain performance.
Effectively & efficiently managing remote developers can be challenging. This article explains the do's and don'ts of managing remote react native developers.
The pandemic has rocked up our world and has brought about significant changes in our lifestyle. While the outbreak has been most detrimental to our society, a silver lining among the murky clouds in the way, the pandemic has influenced our work culture.
Who would know the best way to obtain efficiency with employees is to offer them as much flexibility as possible? Especially recently, working remotely has become the standard practice across industries. As the pioneers of this trend, technology companies are hiring more remote workers every day, realizing the remote work benefits. The reason for this is that remote work has many favorable effects on employee morale, and thus work efficiency, which tech businesses can benefit from.
Have you ever felt like having done nothing after a full day of work? Do you find yourself going away from the office so you can finally get things done? Good news: you’re not alone. Bad news: this may be linked to how you communicate at work!
Free WiFi has become so ubiquitous that you’d be hard-pressed to find a Starbucks that does not offer it. People rarely give it a second thought when browsing in a cafe or even using public Wi Fi for business to stay productive. Unfortunately, such carelessness may come at a price, as public hotspots make it quite easy to hack your device and steal sensitive data. Let’s look at what risks free WiFi poses and what you can do about it.
One of the consequences of COVID-19 has been our openness to remote work. By 2024, at least 40% of all remote access users will be served predominantly by ZTNA.
If you’re hiring for a remote position or managing a remote team, here’s how to build a remote tech team and maintain motivation.
Chances are if you're doing freelancing sooner or later you'll come across a need to write some kind of proposal to your potential customer.
It seems clear that the world is going to be different after the Covid19 crisis is over. I think it behooves us to make sure it’s a good different. Businesses large and small are going to be facing so many headwinds that we desperately need to cut loose some of our anchors to offset. This might seem like the wrong time to implement change, but if we don’t shed some of our bad habits, we’ll never rise to these challenges.
I've been at the same job for 7 years. Here’s why I don’t plan on leaving any time soon.
You've surely heard of Jeff Atwood. If not, he's the co-founder of StackOverflow, StackExchange, Discourse and runs a super popular blog by the name 'Coding Horror'. Long story short, he's well-known in the programming world.
It's a challenging time for teams and organizations that have suddenly jolted to working remotely. For startups and larger organizations, helping their teams with a generous dose of empathy, to enable productivity, is key.
Due to various technological developments, it is now easier than ever to earn money online. Known as the gig economy, there is a massive free-market system for independent workers looking to earn an extra buck. Monetizing one's expertise can remain a challenge, however.
I started writing because the generous community of programmers had helped me by sharing their knowledge freely over the Internet. I wanted to contribute to this incredible trend so I could be a part of something bigger than myself.
In the midst of the chaos caused by the corona pandemic, more people are working remotely than ever before. With the abrupt shift to a distributed workforce, many an IT department scrambled to put infrastructure in place to enable the operation of remote teams.
After a year that included 40% growth in user base and a 130% surge in demand for online whiteboard products, InVision has released an update with Freehand template gallery.
Modern technology allows businesses to improve their workplace safety with a concept known as ergonomic technology.
The quest to achieve a work-life-balance is never-ending, but if you understand the problem, the solution isn't that far away.
A collaborative work environment leads to a more engaged and high-performing workforce. According to a study, collaborative teams are five times higher performing than their non-collaborative counterparts as they feel more motivated to reach common team goals.
When you work remotely, your colleagues can only hear you on calls and talk to you over Slack or e-mail. There’s no physical interaction. They can’t see you working at your desk, in the conference room for the meeting, and they especially can’t do a casual chat on their way to the coffee machine.
The one word that terrifies people in the world right now is COVID-19. Reports from The World Bank state that COVID-19 recession has seen the fastest, steepest downgrades among all the global recession since 1990. As the health and human toll grows, the economic damage is already evident and represents the most substantial economic shock the world has experienced in decades.
The takeover of high profile Twitter profiles last month on July 15 made headlines when public figures like former President Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk began announcing that they wanted to “give back” to the community.
It’s been more than two decades since the term ‘digital nomad’ came to be. In the time since, people have shown they have a lot of imagination when it comes to their remote work-enabled lifestyles. Some stay in one place and lead an otherwise normal life while others use the flexibility of remote work to travel continuously, or at least regularly. As a result, the world of remote work has become a diverse ecosystem where people have varying degrees of commitment and availability, as well as a broad array of purposes for working remotely.
WFH productivity can be influenced by a series of outside factors. Optimize your workspace to optimize your productivity.
While her pajama set was nice, I was wondering what type of crowd this was. Even before the March shelter-in-place orders, I would have never thought to wear pajamas to an in-person social event.
Learn the pros and cons of remote work, on site work, and hybrid work. how to find your best work environment.
One heavily discussed topic in the context of this current global crisis is running effective virtual meetings. We needed to adapt to remote work quickly. Engineering is different these days. The difference between work and home has become blurry. People have a hard time setting boundaries between work hours and home hours.
Businesses overall have gone through so much change in 2020. The fact that technology is important in business has become clearer than ever. With employees working from home, managers are facing many challenges. Everything, monitoring employees’ activities, checking their attendance, maintaining transparency, and building effective communication, has grown more and more complex.
Productivity tools make professionals efficient and carry out their tasks in less time and effort, making you productive.
Some of the things that have helped our engineering teams to stay productive.
Remote Working Hub is a place where you could find useful information about remote working. I have been asked to share my remote working experiences. I said to myself, why not.
I have two questions for you - Do you like good books? Of course, you do. One of these extraordinary good books served as an inspiration for this article's title. Yes, I'm obviously referring to Gabriel García Márquez and his heartbreaking novel - Love in the Time of Cholera.
2020 has proven to be a trying time for developer teams, including ours, due to the pandemic. Quickly, our team became one of WFH Engineering Teams worldwide caused by the lockdowns. We are now a fully remote dev team without plans of an immediate return to an office, face-to-face environment.
What is an Online Focus Group?
As COVID-19 moves across the country, nearly all businesses and educational institutions have shifted to remote work and distance learning. As a result, the demand for resources to support that shift have taken a sharp upturn — particularly, the demand for laptop computers. In response, TechSoup is working with our partners to expand our inventory of laptops by adding more Condition B products to our catalog.
Let’s explore why digital nomads are drawn to Colombia, what the digital nomad visa offers and which locations offer the most reliable internet connections.
In this article, you’ll find 12 amazing Slack tips for remote teams.
Why “forced” distributed teams are not indicative of what remote work is usually like
Feel like your slackin' in the Slack skills department? These Slack hacks and tips will help you improve the way you work.
One of the best solutions: Don't jump to conclusions
When Google Wave previewed at the 2009 I/O conference, it was a tool like no other. Not only was it the first unified workspace and collaboration platform before the remote-work boom happened, but it also tried to solve many of the same problems we’re facing today.
COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has resulted in many people to work from home. How do I remain productive at home?
A look at some unique use cases in the metaverse
So what to do when your remote team struggles with getting things done?
Why companies need to reevaluate cybersecurity to reduce risks within the flow of work. Remote work and SaaS apps make securing people more important than ever.
It’s not a one solution for everyone situation: Remote working may suit some, but others will want time in the office. Here are some tips to stay flexible.
Things have changed very rapidly for a lot of people. Just a few months ago nobody would’ve imagined they would have to stay at home for a prolonged period of time, and even though warned, preparation for a global scale epidemic was pretty poor. Right now, when the spread of Covid-19 is at its peak, a lot of people have to get used to self-isolation, which means they can’t go to work to offices anymore but have to work remotely.
Family relationships, friendships, acquaintanceship, and romantic relationships are the different types of relationships that you may be involved in. Any or all of them can greatly impact your productivity and also constitute cyber threats while working from home.
Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing the nature of jobs and many believe that robots will completely put humans out of work in the coming years.
As every child of the ‘80’s knows – the most effective way to become a karate expert is not through years of dedicated training, but rather by completing a sequence of seemingly tedious chores for an elderly Japanese neighbor. Thanks to the miracle of muscle memory, before you know it, you’ll have won the all-valley karate tournament. (Actually, now I think about it, this might have been one of the first, and most effective “hacks” I was ever exposed to).
I am sure that you already have Zoom, Slack and Asana on your computer. But daily office life is more than written tasks and planned meetings. There are lunches with your team, spontaneous talks near the water cooler, common tasks and goals you want to acheive. It’s your comfortable workplace and it by itself motivates you to be productive. Just look at the bunch of stickers on the wall — big things are waiting for you!
As the classroom of the future changes, the students also need to adapt. As educational institutes are looking at long Coronavirus closures with millions of kids out of school worldwide, they are scrambling to reimagine how they can educate their students.
The corporate world is quickly becoming digitised. From immersive communication to VR training, find out how AR/VR technology is transforming the workplace.
Most U.S. employees now work from home temporarily because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Employees say the top advantages of working remotely are no commute and a more flexible schedule, while the biggest challenges are lack of collaboration and frequent interruptions.
A look at the modern day pay gap and work from home trends.
With the pandemic most people go to home office, teleworking, remote working or whatever you call it... For chief security officers this is a really big new challenge.
Before we attempt to answer the challenge of how to build trust over Zoom, Loom, Slack. Let’s try to analyze what built trust
Best practices of outsourcing software and outstaffing engineers in 2022
Make your home office a place you want to spend 40 hours a week with these 8 upgrades.
The pandemic didn't create the problems with childcare but revealed and worsened them. Working mothers bear the uneven burden of childcare.
72% of managers prefer their subordinates to be in the office. Why are bosses so against remote work? Find out what our readers think might be the issues here.
Financial reports are lengthy, confusing, and boring. I promise that I will keep it simple, brief, and straight to the point. I will let Upwork’s numbers do all the talking.
Imagine a future where everyone has a virtual character that they use across multiple platforms. Social media, video conferencing, games, and other online spaces.
Now that almost everyone is working from home, startup founders looking to raise money from investors will need to do so remotely. In fact, in-person pitches may now be a thing of the past.
What Would Sigmund Freud Do In The Remote Work World?
Truvelop is a best in breed HR tech solution for a modern approach to performance management and development by leveraging a large scale data asset.
Only when there is something worth sharing do we think we are worth resting.
It's really hard to get people on the same page! The concepts of serialization and state will level up your ability to keep humans in sync smooth discussion.
It’s official. Remote work is here to stay. At Woven (where I work, in the interests of full disclosure) we were not surprised. The signs were there all along. But as COVID-19 forced everyone on that corner, the suddenly remote companies are put in a position where suddenly, they can’t trust their process to work as well as it used to.
From an epidemic, it was advancing towards becoming a pandemic. We heard a 10, then 20 and before we knew, it had already hit 1000!
This article introduces 5 Upwork alternative websites for freelancers looking for work in niche fields or people looking for entry-level micro work. With struggling economies in many countries, more and more people are turning to online freelancing as an additional source of income. Upwork is one of the most popular websites for freelancers. However, if you aren’t really getting many leads from that site, there are tons of upwork alternative sites you can try.
Hiring remote employees can benefit your business by bringing in a diverse range of skills that are scarce in your location. In turn, working remotely benefits employees by offering the option to pursue the career they want, without the need to relocate.
We talked to Tara Vasdani, the first Canadian lawyer to serve a Statement of Claim using Instagram, a writer for Canadian Lawyer and The Lawyer’s Daily, and founder of Remote Law Canada
60% of the top 20 companies listed in the annual World's Best Workplaces list have an active remote working policy - Great Place to Work® Annual Reports.
Does your team have psychological safety? This may be a much more important question than you think. It may seem unintuitive but safety is a critical ingredient to unlocking your team's potential. Google certainly believes so, and Amy Edmondson at Harvard Business School agrees.
The metaverse has created an uproar with its announcement. Everyone is questioning - where do we go from there? Here's my take on this fantastical idea.
Eric Johnson, the CTO of GitLab (a FULLY REMOTE company with 1500 employees) shares his tips on how to manage a fully remote team async across timezones.
We hope that this article will become your guide to best practices that will help you build, grow, and manage a team that is fully remote and spread around the world.
This new wave of business digitalization increased the number of cyber attacks - the so-called cyber pandemic began.
In 2021, there’s both a need and an opportunity for employee training. Here is a reflection on what actually motivates employees to complete the training.
The demand for software developers is ever-increasing, with many industries turning to IT for help concerning marketing, automation processes, etc. It's estimated that by the end of 2019, the total number of software developers will count over 26 million. Scattered around the globe, managing them online could prove to be a difficult job for managers.
I remote-chat this afternoon with Stefan van Tulder, founder of Talent Data Labs and one of the best brains I know in the field of Behavioural Science, Quantitative Psychology and Psychometrics. He’s born in Amsterdam and is currently home-bound in his lovely apartment in the historic museum quarter.
Google is joining the developing number of associations who've chosen to quit utilizing Zoom because of the security worries with the video-conferencing administration.
Quietly quitting the business does not always mean that they will go out the back door and never return. It's a deceptive description that complicates things.
We are no novices when it comes to working from home. We have all worked from home at some point in time. Truth to be told, many of us loved that occasional break from the office space to work from home. Yet, now, when remote working is gradually becoming the new norm, it all feels new, at least to some of us.
We are halfway through 2020. Self-evident truth makes it crystal clear that there is too much to swallow and digest to make sense of everything that is happening in our new reality. It is also important to mention that there is no doubt that the world will remember this year just like they remember 2012 when everyone was expecting the end of the world. But what happens after COVID-19? The Economist has its perspective:
Traveling the world while working is THE dream.
Learn about the research-proven positive impact of remote working and discover why the trend for telecommuting keeps growing.
This post tries to resurrect brainstorming and suggest new ways to brainstorm remotely with bonus tips relevant in a tech-driven and remote work setting.
These are the best productivity tools that make your life a lot easier, as recommended by its everyday users.
In 2020, only 16% of people worked remotely. Now, 90% of workers are hybrid workers. This article breaks down the challenges and benefits of offshore working.
Although we’d like to believe otherwise, most of our life is run on computers. Screen times continue to soar as we become inseparable from our devices. From entertainment on Netflix to weekly planning on your phone, we find ourselves more dependent on technology every day. One device, however, reigns supreme; especially for the busy workdays. The traditional computer has become an essential device for every working class adult, and with it comes the heavy reliance on the internet browser. Some of us can barely imagine what life was like before Google.
With issues like Great resignation coming into prominence MSPs need to create proper remote workforce management strategies to grow. Here’s how to do so.
A look at how focus can improve your life.
Soothsayer Sequoia Capital warned its portfolio companies in a memo—how can startups stay healthy?
Freelancing comes with its pros and cons. The advantages of doing freelance work are known by many but the disadvantages are discussed very rarely. One of the main concerns of freelancers is that sometimes work is not steady or they do not know where to look for work. To help you out, we have compiled a comprehensive list of 20 free job sites for remote jobs where you can browse opportunities related to web development and coding.
A common debate in the Agile community is how important or not Standups are, and what their structure should be.
Here are some remote work tips on how to get the results without sacrificing your personal life.
As recession fears continue to mount, recruiters are preparing to face hiring conditions not experienced in over a decade.
In this slogging thread, our startup hustle channel took the chance to discuss the news of the most recent work conditions in Belgium.
4 tips on what to do when your team is suddenly split across two or more locations
Accidents do happen. Everyone's home included. But, here's the thing. Technically speaking, this remote worker got injured on his way to work.
Are you using online whiteboards? Here are five reasons why you should and how they can positively affect your business.
It’s not just kids who impact remote work. Animals also feel the need to interfere.
Remote Work Paving the Way to Multi-Job Careers and Global Hiring
Big data is beginning to emerge as a key tool for businesses to successfully operate on a WFH basis.
Today I will tell you what principles to follow when planning your day. I use these practices myself and it helped to significantly reduce the level of daily stress. I also want to note that I adhere to these rules not only at work, but also in life, and I plan my everyday activities in the same way.
As a founder with a developer background, I was frequently asked for recommendations of outsourced tech teams. A long time ago I co-founded a Ukrainian software house, before handing business to my partner in 2016.
This article outlines the five factors most critical to the success of remote, diverse development teams. Each factor is both a challenge and an opportunity for developers and leaders.
If you've found yourself binging an embarrassing amount of shows and movies on Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime in the past few weeks, you may want to consider dedicating some time to stream learning. Streaming learning programs, classes and webinars can give you some "brain exercise" during a time when we must social distance and inherently increase screen time.
Managing a remote team can be difficult, but if you do it correctly, your team can have an enjoyable and productive work-from-home life. My team is scattered all over the world. Sometimes I can be discussing a bug with a QA engineer who is 6,034 miles away from me, in the US, while I’m here in Siberia. But in just 20 minutes, we’ll find a solution and in a week, the bug will be fixed.
Crossover for Work advertises dozens of jobs all the time, many of them highly paid, many for senior developers and architects. Everyone works from home.
As a person that used to track finances and company expenses in their previous life, I know that toilet paper is a huge expense. Everybody does it. Everybody needs it.
During 2020, many traditional standards and realities changed, resulting in widespread changes impacting all operational levels.
With the advent of remote and hybrid work, one thing many employees and companies are trying to overcome is employee burnout. Is technology the solution?
The shock-wave caused by a coronavirus has already rolled around the globe several times. Today's businesses feel the growing anxiety and concerns about how it will impact all the processes.
This absolutely, unbelievable story began at the moment our team leader, from another one of my startups, got tired of managing a motley team of “remote workers” and decided to resign. He said that being a manager of remote workers was much more difficult than doing the same thing in a traditional office.
Missing proper conversations and more direct collaboration, our team decided to do a “virtual coworking” experiment - working with our cameras on for a week.
Research shows that online therapy for depression is basically as effective as in-person therapy in helping individuals deal with mental health issues.
The coronavirus pandemic has been taking a toll on the world for many months now, and normal life continues to be disrupted. As people are settling into working from home, many teams that were already working remotely have needed to make adjustments to how they work. For years though, many have been making the most of the many advantages remote work offers.
It has been four months since Coronavirus originated in China's Wuhan and the outbreak continues to be on the headlines. On one hand, many employers are getting ready for the possible disruptions that Coronavirus would bring to their business in the long run, such as transportation issues, labor shortages, reduced working hours and low consumer traffic.
This is a quick guide on how to select remote development teams for startups at the Series A stage that may need to add remote engineers to their teams.
“Core hours” defeat the purpose of working — but what about ensuring that work is done?
Canva head of growth shares insights into how remote teams are collaborating creatively on the platform.
On managing remote teams and creating an atmosphere similar to your office: Recently, I did a webinar with TIE and fellow women founders on Managing remote teams. A lot of you asked for the extensive list of tools that I mentioned in the webinar. So, here it is!
Covid-19 has revealed and keeps revealing holes in the economic and healthcare infrastructures worldwide as it spread and invades countries mercilessly. The gap between the rich and poor has become more obvious, especially in well-developed countries. The number of job losses in two weeks exceeded 10 million in the U.S. alone.
From streamlining business operations to improving customer experience to enhancing manufacturing facilities, 5G will present endless business opportunities.
In response to the 2020 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, many businesses have switched their employees to remote work. As businesses begin to realize the benefits of employees working remotely, many companies are choosing to keep telecommuting as a permanent option for their employees.
The 50/10 method is simple. It says work for fifty minutes; rest for ten minutes.
Only a few decades ago, we believed that the brain was a nonrenewable organ with a finite amount of neurons. But then we discovered that the strength of connections between neurons can change, something that's called structural neuroplasticity.
General Introductions to Remote Working (... you can contribute here).
Facing body pain while working from home? Save a lifetime of back pain with this guide. Back pain and body aches are an inescapable reality that we share as humans. I work the 9 to 5 life just like everyone else and at the end of the day I usually have some form of body pain. Maybe not every day, but it does happen. And when it happens, it's day ruining.
Remote work has become the most transformative labor trend of our lifetime. Long before ‘social distancing’ became a household term, businesses chose to operate with remote teams because of its benefits.
First is the matter of security. Having a segregated home office network makes it less likely that a compromised consumer device can pose a security risk.
We observe an increasing share of distributed teams and the growing popularity of remote work. And there seems to be some contradiction, as at the first glance Agile and distributed teams do not merge well. The Agile methodology is laid down in the famous Agile Manifesto and is based on the twelve principles derived from it.
As Yash woke up from his alarm tone, he rushed to get his laptop and quickly wore a clean shirt and a tie before even freshening up. The daily sprint update meeting was about to start in a minute. He swiftly chose a quiet corner in the house and sat in front of the screen, ready to report to his manager. Followed by 6-8 hours of working on his project and simultaneously managing the household chores, he dozed off early to start the same cycle again tomorrow.
Increased productivity and greater employee satisfaction are the key benefits of flexible working hours for employers.
A Product Manager’s guide to surviving in a COVID-19 world
We want to work, live, and play in a way that isn’t going to cost us the planet and, where possible, can potentially restore nature to what it once was.
With tourism on its knees thanks to COVID-19, what could save economies in some of the world's tourism hotspots? The answer: remote workers and digital nomads.
Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, remote employees and Work from Home arrangements were becoming increasingly common. An Owl Labs 2019 State of Remote Work Report found that 54% of U.S. workers work remotely at least once per month, 48% work remotely at least once per week, and 30% work remotely full-time. Global Workplace Analytics is forecasting a 25-30% increase in working remotely with adoption increasing proportionately with the amount of time we spend in shelter at home and work from home conditions due to COVID-19.
Before the pandemic, roughly 30% of the part-time workforce was working remotely. It is estimated this will expand to at least 48% post-pandemic. Until the pandemic is over, it’s unclear exactly how much of the full-time workforce that can work remotely will continue to do so.
The information technology industry is undergoing rapid evolution and changing the shape of Indian Business Standards. According to the recently published research, 80% of Europeans and US outsourcing firms made Indian remote developers as their first choice. It will be intriguing to foreshadow how outsourcing trends emerging and changed geographical and economic equivalence between the developed and developing nations.
As an engineer, I was fascinated when I was first introduced to design patterns but I was even more intrigued when I read about anti-patterns. Put simply, design patterns are good practices to solve common problems while anti-patterns are the exact opposite and undesirable.
For example, it is good practice to break classes and functions into smaller units with clearly-defined and singular responsibility. As opposed to this is the anti-pattern where a single class has lots of dependencies, responsibilities and grows beyond all logic to become the class that does everything - God Class.
Anti-patterns provide a healthy dose of self-criticism and help detect unproductive behaviour or processes. This got me thinking about a similar approach for remote work - finding patterns that are counter-productive.
Today's discussion is about 10 such remote work anti-patterns. Do you think I missed some obvious pattern? Join in the discussion here and add your thoughts!
The biggest mistake would be to assume that working remotely is going to be the same as in-office except for the cameras. It is important to understand that it requires conscious efforts on rethinking communication & documentation, building trust & social interaction among other things when building a distributed team.
2. The shift to remote is a 0 to 1 switch
Buffer came up with 'The Remote Working Scale' which categorises the way a company could approach remote working. So, the shift to remote is ideally not a 0 to 1 switch and has many intermediate levels that could be implemented.
The important point, however, is to build a truly remote-first culture rather than just being remote-friendly even at the intermediate levels. We have detailed the difference between being remote-first and remote-friendly in our guide.
Start the new year on a positive note, encourage team bonding, and use up any remaining end of year budget.
2020 will be something unforgettable for a lot of us. There are so many things to digest and reflect on this year: so many jobs and lives were lost, hundreds of industries had to adjust to new realities, leadership was redefined, values were reimagined, office work was questioned, and the list goes on…
In this article, you’ll find ten post-lockdown tips for employers.
Over the last couple months, I've created a pretty sweet setup for running meetups -- including the IBM Developer SF Meetup -- and the ForwardJS conference series from my home. Let me show you how!
As nonprofits transition to a remote workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic, significant changes to the traditional IT systems at most organizations are afoot. Meetings have gone virtual, staff are using both work and personal devices, and nearly everyone is connecting to the Internet on their home Wi-Fi networks. Along with all this comes new security concerns that nonprofits must keep in mind to keep their systems safe.
With the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is facing an unprecedented crisis and are being forced to quickly adjust to a new way of working. All organisations — large and small are facing a trial by fire against drops in productivity with remote work tools as their arsenal.
In my previous article ‘Why Does the Global Freelance Economy Need a Mutiny?’ I highlighted how the emergence of the super freelance platforms have come to dominate the global short-term labor hire market. I also explored how decentralised freelance platforms are beginning to offer services with considerable savings in platform fees.
When I started studying computer science in 2003, working for a Big Tech company was a dream almost impossible to reach for me. I was born and raised in Spain, and that’s also where I went to college. Studying over 5,000 miles away from the tech scene of Silicon Valley had an interesting effect on me, I’d watch Apple’s tech events and Microsoft’s product announcements as if they were Hollywood movies. I could never imagine myself being part of them.
Covid-19 has brought out the worst in us, with an increase in reported incidents of cyberbullying and harassment online. The cases have expanded from social media to a newly adopted “Remote-working” environment.
Challenges of remote work are immense and exacerbated by technological gaps and non-secured laptops.
2020 will go down in history as the year that turned the trend that was working from home into the norm for businesses across the globe. Everyone who can feasibly work from home is now doing so.
I haven't worked from an office in about 4 months. The one time I stopped by at the end of March to pickup a testing device and a big monitor I met about 4 people out of ca. 70 in my department. The office is a ghost town, with tumbleweeds and all. We've all adjusted our lives significantly, we learned to cope as organization and as individuals. Now that we have somewhat adjusted and the memories of the before times are fading I think it's time to take inventory. How did we do? What did we learn? If we don't write it down now we won't remember.
One effective freelance working hour is worth two or three regular 9-to-5 working hours.
The word control is very important for a leader who wants to generate a concrete result. Control plays a critical role in being productive.
Today I prepared for you my pick of relatively new, interesting extensions from the VS Code marketplace that have recently been growing in popularity.
Now that we all spend so much time in video conferencing either for work or life, it is critical to make yourself look and sound the best to your colleagues, family and friends. It is not only about self image, but also about having the “real” you projecting the maximum presence remotely. In this article, I would like to introduce a few simple steps to improve your look and sound in video conferencing tools.
The keyboard is on fire, you're typing so fast. But a thought suddenly occurs to you: what about those concert tickets you forgot to buy last night?
Offsites are a big part of remote teams. They allow everyone to socialize, connect more deeply with coworkers, and help build shared experiences and empathy. Even if video calls are a great tool to share information, they can be tiring. It's too easy to miss non-verbal cues. Chance encounters over coffee never happen, and we don’t always experience the same personal connections that come from small-talk. That’s the downside of remote work, and that's why meeting a few times a year is a great way to fill the gap!
The Great Resignation is a phenomenon that describes record numbers of people leaving their jobs after the COVID-19 pandemic ends.
I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but I’m actually convinced I managed to create a dream team, the best one in my whole company. Read on to do it too.
Remote work means finding a balance between your job, passions, and yourself. People can still be productive without working from nine to six.
Happiness is critical. I’ve tried a number of strategies, but once again, I’ve got to call on Sigmund Freud for some extra help.
As the Coronavirus is disrupting the day-to-day lives of billions of people around the world, businesses are in the middle of what Time Magazine describes as the “world’s largest work-from-home experiment.”
Companies need to adapt to the changes necessary in a hybrid workspace to set employees up for success.
COVID-19 may have forced us all into working remotely, but that doesn't mean we can't still pair program! The VS Code Live Share extension is here to help.
The sheer number of professionals and artisans opting for more flexible working and sharing models aided by significant advancements in communication and transaction-based technologies have surged in recent years.
Think in outcomes to turn feedback loops into ellipses. Use evaluation tools to semi-automate the feedback gathering, and then apply insights and experiment.
At oVice, you can virtually walk by moving your avatar and easily join in and out of conversations by bringing your avatar either closer or away from the other.
These days most companies have asked their employees to stay at home and change their office work for a remote one. In such conditions, the issues of organizing video calls have become especially relevant. It seems that online conferences for dozens and even hundreds of people are a step towards a digital future without borders when people can work from anywhere in the world and get together for negotiations literally by click. But in reality, video calls are often not as good as you might imagine. Someone cannot install the necessary program, someone is nervous because of the relatives in the background, and someone appears at an important conference call in his pajamas and using the nickname “DimonKiller666”. We have put together some simple rules for making video calls that will help make them comfortable for yourself and your colleagues.
Every month, dozens of software development companies come up with hundreds of ways for distributed teams to cooperate efficiently, as if they were working side by side in an open-plan office—online collaboration tools, audio and video conferencing solutions, project management systems, time tracking applications, etc.
In this slogging post, the team at HackerNoon discuss how the Covid-19 Pandemic has not only impacted our work life but our lives in general.
How powerful your resume is can determine whether your remote developer career soars high or nosedives. Remote developer resume tips below will help your resume
At the moment due to coronavirus, all Skyeng teams work from home. For us, the shift to remote work was much easier than for many teams who are used to the office environment. At Skyeng, 90% of employees and contractors have been working remotely since their first day.
2020 commenced with a hopeful note. Sadly, as the months passed, it turned into the worst nightmare that many didn’t see coming.
Remote contracting is a great way to expand your team and get the work done without much effort from your end.
For the vast majority of people in tech, one of the side effects of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the switch to working remotely. If Twitter is anything to go by, for some, this may become a long-term reality, too.
FlexJobs recently compiled a list of 20 companies that commonly hire for work-from-home IT jobs
Working remotely has been a trending topic for the last couple of years. But now, more than ever, working remotely has become almost a standard in the tech industry. Have you ever wondered why? If you think about it, working remotely saves money for both, the employer and the employee.
Our Podcast Manager Amy Tom hopped on Slack to learn more about her remote colleagues. This is the conversation that ensued...
Remote work is not something new that has surfaced in recent times. But With the COVID-19 pandemic – It has become much more relevant and necessary to the global workforce eyeing for revival.
I’m Sunny, and I’m a junior developer at GitLive. Since we are making a tool by developers, for developers, I wanted to share how I use our own product on a day to day basis.
This past July, NoDesk turned five. As part of this milestone, I want to reflect on how and why NoDesk came to be, what’s changed over the years, and talk about what’s next as we all look towards the future of work.
I am the co-founder of Flexiple and Remote Tools. In this post, I describe why we are building an exclusive remote-focused community - The Remote Clan.
There is no doubt that the world's workforce is becoming more remote, particularly in tech as developers can now work from any location in the world. But there are a large number of new obstacles that come with this. The most pressing is security.
As we reported on the industry, we invited current and former customer service representatives to contact us. They did.
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted daily routines around the world, and many find themselves working from home for the unforeseeable future.
With 56% of workers only working remotely for the last year, working from home is still something most of us are adjusting to.
Promoting socializing, resisting surveillance, and hosting idea sessions can help to preserve your remote company culture.
We live in a world where change is the only constant. Right from the dawn of time, sustainable approaches have rendered the traditional ones obsolete and this, of course, is evident in diverse sectors especially the workforce. Why do something the hard way when you can get better results doing it the easy way, marketers usually ask.
Finding a remote job as a developer can be tricky. You want to work for a company that recognizes the value of remote workers, and you want to be sure that the
In recent years, the increase of remote work is one of the leading trends in the last years in the labor-management. But the labor market remained inert for a long time... until COVID-19 burst into our lives. Because of it, during some last months, many companies worldwide were faced with the necessity of moving their staff to remote working.
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The COVID pandemic has caused many companies to embrace remote work with a sense of uneasiness, but working from home has successfully become the norm in less than 24 months. 54% of employees have even said that they want to continue working from home post-COVID. What is making remote work so appealing to the workforce?
This blog post should not be considered authoritative in any way. It simply an imperfect attempt to highlight some guiding principles. I am convinced these guiding principles could be useful for you, your dear-ones and your team.
Video conferencing tools like Zoom, Skype, or WebEx along with Digital tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack are deeply embedded into the modern ways of working — even more during the lock-down era. And their role will only get more important.
We are dealing with difficult times during this pandemic. About 20% of entire the Earth's population is stuck-at-home due to Coronavirus. Only a lucky few are able to work-from-home. Rest are either being laid off or are put on unpaid leave for months.
It’s the era of virtualization. Everything from server resources to applications is being virtualized to optimize the IT infrastructure and give it more flexibility. Desktop virtualization is a part of the same bunch, where desktops are virtualized and provided to users over the Internet. The technology used for desktop virtualization is known as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
Startups aren't only built by ideas. There have to be motivated employees. In this slogging thread, the startup hustle community shared motivation strategies.
You already know what Slack is. It's that software that helps you do your job better. It eases communication but there's more to Slack than what you know.
The novel coronavirus. COVID-19. Remote working is the new norm, get used to it. Digitalization is the only way to keep the lights on. Looming economic recession. — Yeah, you might be familiar with these phrases already. We all are. But the big question that’s on every digital business owner’s mind right now is, “Should I vacate my office and save on the lease now that my employees are working remotely?” The short answer to this question is, “It depends.” Here’s why.
21 Productivity Ideas When Working From Home
Digital Transformation in every field of our lives has led to the increased collection of our personal data on every device we touch from laptops to mobile phones, to tablets, leaving a digital trail. This data is then used for various purposes such as targeted advertising, research proposes or even corporate espionage. But boundaries need to be set to avoid corporate or other malicious parties taking advantage of this information or even corrupting it.
Working remotely is no longer just a dream. If you can afford a decent laptop and access to the internet, combine it with solid work skills and that gives you a pretty good chance to find a remote job. Professionals in many industries including entrepreneurs, marketers, writers and of course software engineers have already chosen this route.
We're talking about remote work This Week On Planet Internet because HackerNoon is a fully remote company and WE'VE GOT THINGS TO SAY about working remotely 😤
Since the Coronavirus breakdown, millions of people are stuck at home; and for those who are still in the job market — are working from home too. The so-called “social distancing” measures have increased the Internet usage all around the world by 50–70%. Streaming has also jumped by at least 12%, according to Forbes.
The Verge reporter Casey Newton and investors Hunter Walk were hosting WFH Happy Hours, a popular daily public video call show on Zoom. Some crooks started screen sharing, showing inappropriate images to everyone in the meeting.
This year we have been quietly developing and launching our first micro-incubator programme at ucreate. Since 2015 we have been working with talented founders as their tech partner across a variety of industries and technologies.
Does an orderly work station make you more productive? The HackerNoon team debates and provides evidence that confirms the Gorillaz are awesome.
Anger remodels my world the same way the erupting lava from a volcano landscapes its surroundings.
In this slogging thread, our community discusses Zeitler's initiative, Coworking Bansko, and nomadic working.
What do you do when your product isn’t encrypted? Change how encryption to is commonly understood.
Just five years ago, remote work was considered to be the way of the future, but only the distant future. Most specialized web publications predicted a rise in the popularity of telecommuting, but only in ten years’ time. However, this future arrived much earlier.
Due to COVID-19, companies have found themselves in the middle of the world’s largest work-from-home experiment. Many hail remote work as a blessing, allowing employees to continue working while practicing social distancing during this uncertain time.
When the team is organized remotely, "chemistry" between employees and managers should be encouraged intentionally. Learn 6 effective formats to keep in touch !
These 7 Startup Founders used the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic to propel them forward. From asynchronous communication apps to a self-sanitizin
Everyone does remote meetings nowadays! The culture has changed from having a room with people, drinking coffee, typing at their laptops and guiding discussions through the multitude of subject matters that they have to cover and resolve to… them doing the same thing BUT through their screens.
Since my previous article about COVID Innovations, in which I highlighted 20 ordinary professionals and companies undertaking extraordinary actions to drive change to tackle this pandemic, new change makers have emerged on the horizon. Acting as role models worthy of our admiration and attention, more and more industry giants are taking the lead, including:
This Slogging thread by David, Linh, Ellen, Hang, Utsav Jaiswal, Bruno Molteni and Sidra Ijaz occurred in hackernoon's official #only-at-hackernoon channel, and has been edited for readability.
On Wednesday 2nd October, 2019 we officially launched Leave Me Alone v2.0. To celebrate we hosted an event that included interviews with entrepreneurs from around the world, and live streamed the whole day from Bali. This post is the breakdown of everything that went into the most crazy, incredible, and exhausting 14 hours of our lives!
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Have you heard the news? Epic Games, the developer of a wildly successful multiplayer game Fortnite, has just announced a massive $1.78 billion funding round. Want to know what it has to do with collaboration software?
In this Slogging thread, the HN team dives into the apps and tools we use on a daily basis.
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