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Companies That Now Allow Their Employees to Work From Home Permanently

He serves as a consultant to New Balance, Proteus Motion, and Athletic Greens. Kevin is currently co-chair of The Long Now Foundation, which is building a clock in a mountain that will tick for 10,000 years. He also has a daily blog; a weekly podcast about cool tools; and a weekly newsletter, Recomendo, which is a free, one-page list of six very brief recommendations of cool stuff. Maui Nui was selected for Fast Company’s “Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Agriculture of 2023,” and its venison has been served in restaurants across the country, including Alinea, The French Laundry, and Saison. Prior to Maui Nui, Jake was executive director of the Axis Deer Institute for 12 years, part of a two-decades-long project focused on axis deer and their long-term management in Hawai’i. Want to hear a podcast episode with someone Simon once fooled?

Work-from-home tips and ideas, from our team to yours. Don’t treat employees like people with valuable skills – treat them like valuable people. https://remotemode.net/blog/ Cal writes for both general and academic audiences on a variety of topics. Here are two featured articles from both of these categories.

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They bring the team together more than everyday office interactions ever could. And, with a more efficient schedule, I can invest more time into other interests. I’m proud to be involved with Canny’s mission, but I’m also proud of my own interests in relationship building, music production and software. Not everyone is at their peak productivity from 9am to 5pm.

It was not an option for me to join a non-remote company. The reason for that is simple—working from home gives me the flexibility I need to be at my most productive. If you like working from home, work from home. However, there are several things about Canny that give us an edge over large corps. They are valuable enough that we’ve built up a team of awesome people.

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Also, if you are concerned about your colleagues finding out about your blog, do not blog while you are at work. You could get in trouble for using company resources like an Internet connection to maintain your blog, and it will be very hard for you to argue that the blog is a work-related activity. It will also be much more difficult for you to hide your blogging from officemates and IT operators who observe traffic over the office network. As a remote team, it’s even more important that we invest time in our inter-team relationships. We know about each other’s families, hobbies, and quirks.

The bad news is that in many cases, there is no legal means of redress if you’ve been fired for blogging. While your right to free speech is protected by the First Amendment, this protection does not shield you from the consequences of what you say. The First Amendment protects speech from being censored by the government; it does not regulate what private parties (such as most employers) do. In states with « at will » employment laws like California, employers can fire you at any time, for any reason. And no state has laws that specifically protect bloggers from discrimination, on the job or otherwise. A handful of bloggers have recently discovered that their labors of love may lead to unemployment.

Some of it good, some of it bad, and quite honestly, some of it pretty ugly. We’ve done the hard work for you and sifted through the ever growing list of workplace management blogs out on the market. Each year we share with you our must-read list, so the time you spend reading is time well spent. Here’s our list for 2017, you’ll notice a few familiar URLs, and some newcomers as well. Remember, they’re in no particular order, we think they’re all worth a spot in your browser.

Let your colleagues here know what you’re thinking so we can continue to strengthen our profession together. Hey there, I’m one of the co-founders of Canny. As a founder, I dabble in pretty much everything but my expertise is in product design. Outside work, I enjoy digital illustration, a cappella, and hanging out with our dog, Emmy. I’ll be honest, I was nervous in the beginning.

Bill Gurley (@bgurley) has spent more than 20 years as a general partner at Benchmark. Before entering the venture-capital business, Bill spent four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst, including three years at Credit Suisse First Boston. Over his venture career, he has worked with such companies as GrubHub, Nextdoor, OpenTable, Stitch Fix, Uber, and Zillow.

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People wear more hats so you’re involved in more things. We pick a destination and all fly over to hang out for a week—all expenses paid. Our retreats so far have been to Lisbon, Split, Prague, Denver, and Barcelona. While we love working remotely, we also make it a point to see each other in person. A former coworker of Elen’s once said, “Relationships are built in person, and maintained online,” and we take that to heart.

• Let your colleagues here know what you’re thinking so we can continue to strengthen our profession together.
• I’ll be honest, I was nervous in the beginning.
• Over his venture career, he has worked with such companies as GrubHub, Nextdoor, OpenTable, Stitch Fix, Uber, and Zillow.
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• They are valuable enough that we’ve built up a team of awesome people.
• We’re particularly fond of his monthly articles on Houston and the future of the Texas CRE landscape.