Top Remote Work Links
- GitLab Remote Manifesto and Company Handbook , 2020 Remote Work Report– The most comprehensive and notable remote-first company handbook.
- Guidelines For Effective Collaboration – Concise tips for chat-based communication (GitHub)
- Zapier’s The Ultimate Guide To Remote Work – Wide range of remote work management topics packaged as an eBook.
- Remote Work Guidelines by Twist – Department-specific articles for remote work management
- Distributed Work’s 5 Levels of Autonomy by Matt Mullenweg
- Buffer 2020 State of Remote Work Large survey results for remote work.
- RemoteOnly.org – List of remote-only and remote-first companies, remote job boards, and articles
- How To Chat Friends And Slack-fluence People: Tactics for better remote work collaboration in chat-based workspaces
- Remote Flamingo – Remote Work News Aggregator
Company Blogs, ‘Abouts’, and Handbooks
- GitHub – Collaborating at GitHub with a 60% Remote Workforce and How GitHub Works
- InVision – Remote Work Blog Series
- Twist – Remote Work Guidelines
- Toptal – The Suddenly Remote Work Playbook
- Everest – The Everest Engineering Manifesto
- Shogun – Remote Work Guide
- Crowdbotics – Guide to Building a Successful Remote Work Company
- Hubstaff – How We Built and Manage A Successful Remote Company
- Doist – Managing Remote Employees: Best Practices from Doist’s Head of Marketing
- Aha – Howw 100 Remote Workers Connect Every Week and ‘Remote Work’ Blog Category
- Hubspot – How to Build and Manage A Remote Team of Writers
- Innolitics – Innolitics Company Handbook
- Buffer – 5 Continents, 14 Cities, 24 People: How We Work As a Distributed Team Spread Across the Planet and Open Blog
- Niteo – The Niteo Handbook
- Groove – Why Remote Working Works For Us
- Buffer – After Growing to 50 People, We’re Ditching the Office Completely: Here’s Why
- Treehouse – How I Manage 40 People Remotely and How to successfully run a remote team
- Ad Hoc – The Truth About Remote Work
- BrightBox – Remote: Office Not Required
- Close.io – From on-premise to fully remote startup: How we designed an amazing company culture (no office needed)
- Basecamp – REMOTE – Office Not Required (eBook)
- WooThemes – The Challenge Of Working Remotely
- Knack – Why We Chose Remote
- Mobile Jazz – Going Fully Remote: Six Months On
Individual Blog Posts & Remote Work Topics
- Written Communication Is Remote Work Superpower – Snir David
- Remote Brainstorming For Regular Humans – Bartek Ciszkowski
- Why Writing Matters In Remote Work – Tim Casasola
- The Complete 2020 Guide to Remote Work – Novo Resume Builder
- A Decade of Remote Work – Viktor Petersson
- Making Remote Work: Ask DuckDuckGo About Being A Digital Nomad Q&A – Women Digital Nomads
- What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what. – Andrew Chen
- Collected tips on working from home during lockdown – Julie Zhuo
Tools & Equipment
- How to Make Your Video Calls Almost As Good As Face-To-Face – Ben Kuhn
- Setting Up Your Webcam, Lights, and Audio for Remote Work, Podcasting, Videos, and Streaming – Matt Stauffer
Remote Marketing
- How Buffer’s Head of Marketing works remotely – IndieHackers
Books
- Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried
- The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and The Future of Work – Scott Brekun
Audio
- Distributed podcast with Matt Mullenweg – Longform interviews with remote work leaders
- Quora | Becoming a Remote-First Company – Greylock
In the News
- Can Remote Work Be Fixed? – The New Yorker (May 2020)
- Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Smaller Ones—and Taking Their Jobs With Them – WSJ (September, 2019)
- The Presence Prison – Signal v. Noise (December, 2017)
- He Built A $1 Billion Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely – Forbes (July, 2019)
- Why Remote Work Can’t Be Stopped – WSJ (June, 2017)
Hiring
- A ‘Masterclass’ on remote work hiring – Hiring, Recruiting, and Essential Tools
- 7 rules of hiring a remote team for your project – Andrew Ste
Job Search
- Remote Tech Jobs – Job postings no older than 30 days
- 100+ Companies with Open Remote Positions (GSheets)
- Remotive.io – Job Board and Jobs Newsletter
- List of Remote Friendly Companies (GitHub)
- Remote Jobs or Gig Platforms (GSheets)
- The Remote Freelancer (GitHub) – Community-curated resources for remote freelance and contract work for software developers and web designers
- https://remotehub.io/
- We Work Remotely
- Remote OK
- Jobspresso
- Working Nomads
- PowerToFly
- Remote jobs on Angellist
- Remotive – in particular, The List of Awesome
- Who Is Hiring?
- JustRemote
- Remote For Me
- 25 Fully-Remote Companies That Let You Work From Anywhere – Zapier (May, 2017)
Gig Work
- Freelancer marketplaces: Fiverr, Airtasker, UpWork, Freelancer.com, UpWork, Crowdbotics, Gigster
Communication & Collaboration
- Managing Groups and Teams/How Do You Manage Global Virtual Teams? – WikiBooks
- The Ultimate Guide To Remote Standups – idonethis
- How my distributed team communicates so no context is left behind – Nowak, VentureBeat (June, 2019)
- Getting Remote Teams Right – HBR (December, 2014)
Assorted Stats
- Remote Work Report – Survey of 486 remote workers and summary of remote works stats
- Future Workforce Report – UpWork (2018)
- Study of the American Workplace – Gallup (2017)
Conferences & Programs
Culture
- Introverts at Work: Designing Spaces for People Who Hate Open-Plan Offices – Bloomberg (July, 2014)
Remote Work Management and Operations
- Compensation For Remote Teams – Remotive
- Remote Compensation Calculator – GitLab