Category: Remote Work
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Fun Week
During the month of January, I will be posting (tentatively) one post every day as part of the #bloganuary challenge Sorry, not going with the prompt today. I also figured out I mixed up the days/prompts, so I will skip it today and talk about something else. One of the million perks of working for […]
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Back to “Normal”
I swear I thought that being part of the #bloganuary challenge would be enough to get me into the habit of writing more here. But then, the whole Developer Apprenticeship thing happened and threw me off a bit. Mostly because I started another blog to help me study (Rosie Codes), where I share things I […]
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Repost: Automattic Women
It Me!! 😆 Welcome to Automattic Women—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to design and develop Automattic software and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee, Developer Apprentice Rossana Menezes, chats with us from her traveling workstation somewhere around the globe… (Read More)
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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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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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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 […]