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Focus is the default The biggest difference between the remote/async teams we share here and legacy teams is a default to focus. In an office you have to fight for that kind of focus and deep work. When I was last in an office I was constantly booking meeting rooms to be alone. If I couldn't get a room, I was putting headphones on to keep people from constantly interrupting. Escaping the office isn't enough though. If your company isn't mostly async and you're being asked to jump into meetings all day long, you'll never get time to do deep work at home either. Remote/async teams know that sending a Loom is more efficient than asking people to schedule a call. They know that most projects can be moved forward via written documentation. Flexible schedules designed around time to focus will achieve the same, if not better, results.
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Interview with Flo Crivello, Founder of Teamflow |
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- Tell us about what you do and where your team is located.
What we do is we build a virtual office for remote teams so you can move around a virtual office, you can only hear and be heard by people around you. So that's where you can hang out with your team.
Our team is located all over the place. America, Brazil, Colombia, Canada, Trinidad.
- What's a modern benefit you offer your team that isn't mainstream yet?
Its going to sound funny but how obsessive we are with the quality of the people we hire is the modern benefit we offer. We think of it as a perk - you´re surrounded by absolutely world class people.
- Tell us about your approach to meetings vs async communication?
We actually do believe in synchronous communication but that doesn´t mean meetings. I think people tend to conflate meetings and synchronous communication but Teamflow lets you have synchronous communication that is not a meeting. It´s actually a lot more efficient than both meetings and async because it´s like two minutes instead of thirty and its more efficient than async because you´re immediately unblocked and it´s just much faster to talk thank to type.
- What's your favourite tool for remote collaboration?
Teamflow :)
- Can you give us one prediction for the future of work?
You know how we hear these stories about when people didn´t travel more than 20 miles away from their hometown? It´s just so crazy to us. I think that in 10 or 20 years, no more than that, our story will sound equally crazy to our grandkids - that we used to only work for people within 20 miles of where we lived. So that's the future of work. I really think that we´re creating the first city with 2 billion people. It's a city on the internet. So as a result, finding a new job is going to take you five minutes. Finding an employee is going to take five minutes. It´s just going to be a hundred times easier to hire and to be hired by people.
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Latest forward-thinking companies and job opportunities 👇 |
Hashnode: is a free content creation platform that enables developers to create a full-fledged & optimized blog mapped to their custom domain for free.9 current openings in Engineering, Marketing, Product & Design- Work from anywhere 🌎 - Global remote team.
- Async communication 💬 - Using async communication.
- Generous vacation 🏖️ - Unlimited vacation policy.
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Orbit: is the community experience platform that helps you build and grow your community, no matter where it happens11 current openings across all departments- Remote friendly 💻 - All positions are remote-friendly (between UTC-7 and UTC+2).
- Flexible schedule 🗓️ - Flexible working arrangements.
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Lower Street: Next-level podcast production for ambitious companies.2 current openings in Content & Production- Work from anywhere 🌎 - Your house in the country, a coffee shop in the city, a yurt in the forest -- we don’t mind.
- Flexible schedule 🗓️ - Outside of ideally having some working overlap with UK working hours.
- Async communication 💬 - Asynchronous team.
- Company retreats ✈️ - Planned team retreats in really fun spots.
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A.Team: is the world's first on-demand team formation platform, enabling companies to use it's Team Graph to form high-performing, expert tech teams, instantly.10 current openings across all departments- Work from anywhere 🌎 You do you. Just send us a postcard.
- Flexible schedule 🗓️ - Part-time or full-time? You tell us! We are not here to count the hours you are working.
- Generous vacation 🏖️ - Take the time you need to relax, so that you can bring your A.Game.
- Company retreats ✈️ - We hold company offsites 2x per year.
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Standard Notes: is an easy-to-use encrypted note-taking app for digitalists and professionals. Capture your notes, documents, and life’s work all in one place. 12 current openings across all departments- Work from anywhere 🌎 - Fully remote.
- Async communication 💬 - Asynchronous work culture.
- Flexible schedule 🗓️ - No need to be online and present every day from 9-5.
- 4 day work week 🕒 - 32-hour workweek.
- Generous vacation 🏖️ - 7 weeks paid time off.
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Bitfinex: is a digital asset trading platform offering state-of-the-art services for digital currency traders and global liquidity providers.13 current openings in Engineering, Support, Operations & Marketing
- Remote friendly 💻 - Remote culture environment with team members globally distributed across Asia, Europe, and North and South America.
- Flexible schedule 🗓️ - Flexible hours.
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Aura: is making comprehensive digital security simple to understand and easy to use.25 + current openings in all departments
- Work from anywhere 🌎 - Remote & Flexible Location. We're invested in building great remote work culture
- Generous parental leave 👨👩👦 - 12 weeks paid leave.
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Tools & Resources 🔧- Remeet - Rewire your distributed team’s communication channels for maximum productivity with a fundamentally new approach to meetings.
- Own Your Own Time - A weekly newsletter form our friends at Slite: "stories for remote leaders who think async".
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Top stories from last week 💡
- Now Airbnb lets you check the WiFi speed in your vacation rental before booking - Forbes
- Malta: The island welcoming digital nomads - BBC
- Portugal bars companies from contacting employees off hours and requires other protections for remote work. - NYT
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