Allan of RemoteCompass chats with Abhinav Chugh of Peoplebox, an employee engagement and performance platform for remote teams.
Notes:
- how managing remote/distributed teams is different (vs co-located teams)
- benefits of going remote: no need to dress up, reduce commute times, hire from anywhere in the world
- hiring people for a remote team is significantly different vs hiring someone for an office team
- self-driven people are right for remote
- one-on-one meetings are critical, especially for suddenly remote relationships
- we build relationships by breaking the bread together
- connecting personally is what differentiates teammates from 3rd party suppliers
- building connections has been deprioritized in remote teams
- it's harder to separate work and life when you work from home
- if there's any reason for employees to go back from remote to the office, it's to separate work from life
- Allan's course on developing boundaries for remote work
- we used to separate work and non-work with physical constraints and older technologies
