Remote work rituals

Good advice collected online and in real life, as well as after pondering over collaborative workflow while being physically remote:

• 🪑 get a great chair
• 🗣 understand async
• ✍ over-communicate
• 🆘 ask for help regularly
• ✅ permission by default
• 🥗 go to lunch with people
• 🏃‍♂️ pick up an active hobby
• ✈️ travel as much as you can
• ⏰ learn when to finish the day
• 👀 turn docs visually scannable
• ❤️ more time for family & friends
• 🧵 batch messages and feedback
• 🗓 be clear on why we are meeting
• ⏳ mute notifications for deep work
• ✏️ co-write ideas instead of meeting
• 📺 provide catch-up material for live events
• 📑 make files available, accessible & self-serviceable

Further reading

• Meld Studios. Creating togetherness while working remotely: A Running List of Tips, Tricks, Tools and Know-How on Staying Truly Connected and Collaborative. Google Docs, 26 Mar. 2020, docs.google.com/document/d/1IJicb_tj5PMeVzJjaSs5jxzClMEEmt1IqTC6OULlem4/edit?usp=sharing

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Last update: 2021-04-18

References

Moore, Alex. ‘A guide to remote work etiquette’. Dropbox Blog, 6 Nov. 2020, blog.dropbox.com/topics/work-culture/a-guide-to-remote-work-etiquette.

Pearce, Drew. ‘Using information architecture to make distributed teamwork easier’. Dropbox Blog, 17 Apr. 2020, blog.dropbox.com/topics/work-culture/information-architecture-for-distributed-work.

Twist. ‘The Future of Work: The Guide to Remote Work’. Remote Work Guides, 4 Nov. 2019, twist.com/remote-work-guides/remote-work.

@chrisherd. ‘Best remote work advice I got. . . .’ _Twitter, 8 Apr. 2021, twitter.com/chris_herd/status/1380109487957274629.