Been remote 7 years, here's something I wrote about it recently: https://joecortopassi.com/articles/rules-for-remote-work/ https://joecortopassi.com/articles/ru

Been remote 7 years, here's something I wrote about it recently: https://joecortopassi.com/articles/rules-for-remote-work/ https://joecortopassi.com/articles/rules-for-remote-work/ 1. Communicate early and often. You are so easily forgotten when remote, whether it’s on purpose or accident. Send lots of emails and slack messages throughout the day, even if they totally aren’t necessary. Most people’s thought of remote is “when I’m sick or lazy, I just say I’m working from home and take a day off”, by over-communicating you make them realize your situation is different 2. Set clear start and stop times. When it’s your start time, sit down and open your laptop. When it’s your stop time, close your laptop and walk away. Every time. It’s too easy for work time to slowly bleed into life time, then you end up working 12 hour days with only 4 hours of output to show for it 3. Have a place to ‘focus’. Everyone has different boundaries when it comes to normal work, but make sure you have an area that everyone understands you aren’t to be bothered unless the house is burning down. Doesn’t mean you don’t work where ever is comfy, just have a place you instinctually go that tells yourself and others “stuff just got real, I have to be heads down for a bit”