Effective Remote Work

Let’s Build a Model!

So there we have it. Treat everyone as remote. It’s simple, but it isn’t straightforward. Like existing mindfully in the present moment, changing our communication habits to yield benefits for ourselves and our colleagues regardless of where they are in the world is a difficult habit to form. The default mode of our brains is to try to get everything that we need immediately by any means possible, but this flies in the face of being a diligent remote colleague.

Here’s what we’ve learned in this chapter:

• Office culture has evolved over the past seventy years to favor synchronous, in-person communication. This has created default habits in the way we work that make remote workers feel like they’re out of sight and out of mind. ...