Category: Remote Work
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How do we stay connected?
Working remotely has become a reality for many during the pandemic and for a lot of people this has became a permanent move. Some companies have switched into being 100% remote, like Shopify, others have adopted an hybrid approach, but the truth is, several people will now work from home (or from anywhere). And this […]
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Digital Nomad Visa – Spain
My friends back home will kill me if they read this. I’m not even back from one trip yet and already planning another one and writing about digital Nomad Visas 😏 I don’t consider myself a digital nomad. I guess to be qualified as a nomad you need to be location independent, and I’m not. […]
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The road so far
And here I am. Two weeks into the Developer Apprentice Program and I haven’t gone crazy. YET! 🤣 If you don’t know what I’m talking about, the Developer Apprentice program is a career path program at Automattic to help people who want to move to a software engineering role. You can rotate into a developer […]
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Repost: 5 Surprising Facts I’ve Learned About Working Remotely
Hai there! I’m back already and today I am reposting my own post that was published in the Happiness Engineer Blog yesterday on a few things I’ve learned about working remotely. Check the post below: Here at Automattic, we have been doing this work-from-home thing for a long time now. This was actually how I found out […]
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😅😜🤨🙄 Communicating through Emojis
During January, I will be posting (tentatively) one post every day as part of the #bloganuary challengeToday’s Prompt: What emoji(s) do you like to use? Working at Automattic you need to be fond of emojis and Gifs. As a fully distributed company, with about 1900 employees and a culture of written communication, emojis are basically part of […]
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Godt nytt år
Happy New year, everyone! May 2022 bring good things, Wishing all of you a healthy new year filled with love and empathy! I’m just glad I got to spend the holidays in Norway with my family. I decided to join the WordPress Bloganuary Challenge and I will do my best to post here once a […]
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Distributed.blog – Vanessa Van Edwards on Navigating the virtual workspace in Stressful times
The world has dramatically changed in just a few weeks. As companies around the world shift to remote work, how do we navigate this crisis? Distributed host Matt Mullenweg talks to Vanessa Van Edwards, bestselling author, speaker, and founder of Science of People, about how we communicate with our friends, family, and coworkers during a […]
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Episode 15: Inside the Grand Meetup — Distributed.blog
On this episode of Distributed.blog Matt Mullenweg and some Automatticians talk all about what the Grand Meetup is like and also several other very interesting things about working remotely and a distributed company. Check it out! On this episode of the Distributed podcast, we get an insider’s look at the Grand Meetup, Automattic’s annual weeklong […]
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The Grand Meetup 2019
Being part of a distributed company means you will be on your own most of the time, at least physically. As a company, we are constantly communicating via Slack, we have channels for everything, from official company announcements to water cooler channels that goes from Fitness to Supernatural (the CW TV Show) and people who […]
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The Glamour of working remotely (or not)
Some professions come with natural glamour. If you are an actor, rock star, or any kind of celebrity for that matter, you have that life that everyone else wants, or at least think they want. In the past few years, a new way of working has been gaining force. A new lifestyle. Working from home, […]