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The Narrating Your Work Experiment
Hans de Zwart recently finished an experiment in which he encouraged his distributed team to "narrate their work"—to issue frequent updates to the team about what they were doing. In this article, he discusses the results of the experiment. This article was originally posted on Hans' blog, and he has kindly granted permission to reprint it here.
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8 Moments of Remote Work Zen
For some remote workers, leaving the office behind is a choice to spend more time with family. For others, it's a move to an environment more conducive to focus, or a way to travel the world while still making a living. Whatever your reason for working remotely, it's good sometimes to reflect on the joys of living and working untethered to a desk.
I asked eight remote workers to tell me about their moments of remote work zen---those perfect moments that make it all worthwhile. Here are their answers.
22Nov2010
The Rambling Remote Worker: Marieke Guy on virtual teams, event amplification, and the future of remote work
Today we are lucky to have a guest post from remote worker and blogger Marieke Guy. In this article she recounts her own transition to remote remote work and then to becoming a champion for remote workers; discusses the concept of "event amplification"; and talks a little about the future of distributed teams.
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Meetings and Distributed Introverts
For an introvert, any meeting can be trying. In this guest article, contributor Chris Strom talks about how distributed meetings are especially taxing for those of an introverted bent, and some of his strategies for coping.
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Wide Teams are Stagnant Teams
Distributed sucks. Human interaction is far better than virtual, all the more so for teams of any significant size. I have worked with successful distributed and local teams. The local teams were far superior in their ability to improve. I much prefer the lifestyle afforded by distributed teams. But that lifestyle comes at a significant cost that today's tools cannot even begin to mitigate.
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