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When Emma and I started Moonlight two years ago, remote work was still a new concept. We figured it out the hard way while freelancing and traveling. Since then
by philip1209 7y ago
When Emma and I started Moonlight two years ago, remote work was still a new concept. We figured it out the hard way while freelancing and traveling. Since then, we've seen remote become more mainstream and successful. But questions still remain - what makes a company remote? How do you get a remote job? How do you manage a remote team?
To answer these questions and more, we wrote the Remote Work Encyclopedia! Our goal is to help more companies take advantage of the new, global development market, and to educate knowledge workers on how to ditch the office for a more flexible career. We started the book - but open-sourced it so that everybody can contribute [1].
Take a look, and let me know how we can improve it!
[1] https://github.com/moonlightwork/remote-work-encyclopedia https://github.com/moonlightwork/remote-work-encyclopedia
- Gys 7y ago> two years ago, remote work was still a new concept. You should have added ' to us'
- philip1209 7y agoMaybe we should be more specific about tech startups there. In 2017, it was a liability to be a remote company. In 2019, it's become an asset.
- driverdan 7y agoWhile remote work has become more common not much has changed since 2017. I've been working remote off and on since 2011 as have many of my friends.
- mikekchar 7y agoI think a lot of it is your perspective. To many people a remote company is still an insane idea. To other people a remote company is just common sense if you have business that can make it work (the company I work for even has home workers in their call centre. It's amazing!) Where you are on that spectrum depends a lot on your experiences. Like others, if you saw the shift happening from 2017 to 2019, then you were experiencing things very differently than me. I don't think that's unexpected though. If you speak in a way that assumes your reader has the same experiences as you, you will create some dissonance and I think that's the feedback you are getting now. You can choose to write in a way that shows your personal perspective, or you can back off a bit to be more inclusive of people with other perspectives. Either way will work, I think.
- auspex 7y agoDisagree. Lots of remote work has been available in the last 20 years . You just needed the right skill set... as the parent said "new to you"
- kburman 7y agoAny data point to prove this.