Remote Working Links

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Special thanks to Scott Muc and S+C. Please post more links in the comments and I’ll add them in

Guides / Playbooks

Leading in crisis: Setting up for remote success
https://www.thoughtworks.com/remote-work-playbook

Remote First in Tes Technology
https://engineering.tes.com/how-we-work/remote/

How to Work Remotely and Still Be the Best
http://www.toptal.com/freelance/how-to-work-remotely-and-still-be-the-best

Smart Home: 10 Tips for Working Remotely - Postlight - Digital Product Studio
https://postlight.com/trackchanges/podcast/smart-home-10-tips-for-working-remotely

A guide to distributed work
https://jakemccrary.com/blog/2017/10/31/a-guide-to-distributed-work/

remote - Digital Digressions by Stuart Sierra
https://stuartsierra.com/tag/remote

47 Insanely Practical Work From Home Tips from Our 100% Remote Team
https://www.groovehq.com/blog/work-from-home

23 remote team building activities (to boost morale and trust)
https://www.fingerprintforsuccess.com/blog/team-building-activities

Working from home: A guide to creating a healthy and productive workspace at home
https://www.cotswoldco.com/working-from-home/index.html

Remote Culture

A company where everyone works from home. Here’s how to make it work
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/15/success/remote-work-maintain-culture/index.html

How to Create Belonging for Remote Workers
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-to-create-belonging-for-remote-workers/

Challenges

Onboarding 101: How to boost employee retention
https://allfront.io/blog/onboarding-101

Resolve a Fight with a Remote Colleague
https://hbr.org/2015/11/resolve-a-fight-with-a-remote-colleague

Why Remote Engineering Is So Difficult!?#@%
http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/2014/12/30/why-remote-engineering-is-so-difficult/

James Shore
https://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Three-Challenges-of-Distributed-Teams.html

The Stress of Remote Working
https://hackernoon.com/the-stress-of-remote-working-38be5bdcf4da

Mastering the all-remote environment: My top 5 challenges and solutions
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/12/30/mastering-the-all-remote-environment/

Managing Remote Teams

This Is How We Manage Projects on a Fully Remote Team
https://doist.com/blog/how-we-manage-projects-on-a-fully-remote-team/

Managing Remote Teams: A Psychological Perspective
https://blog.stephsmith.io/best-practices-managing-remote-teams/

Building & Managing a Distributed Team with Juan Pablo Buritica
http://simpleleadership.io/building-managing-a-distributed-team-with-juan-pablo-buritica/

The 5 Biggest Mistakes Managing a Partially Remote Team
https://getlighthouse.com/blog/partially-remote-team-managing-challenges/

Research / Studies

Remote Teams
https://medium.com/@beccadownes/remote-teams-45038339ac68

State of Remote Work 2019
https://buffer.com/state-of-remote-work-2019

Experience Reports

What PwC Learned from Its Policy of Flexible Work for Everyone
https://hbr.org/2019/01/what-pwc-learned-from-its-policy-of-flexible-work-for-everyone

Remote Work: 2 Years In | /var/blog
https://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/2017/10/03/remote-work-2-years-in/

Reflecting on 2.5 Years as a Remote
http://www.jonathanklein.net/2015/04/reflecting-on-25-years-as-remote.html

Working remotely, 4 years in
https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/02/18/working-remotely--4-years-in/

10 years of remote working
https://dev.to/mpermar/10-years-of-remote-working-this-is-what-i-have-learned-so-far-21l9

Documenting / Communication

Documenting Decisions in a Remote Team
https://medium.com/@kawomersley/documenting-decisions-in-a-remote-team-b53cb615ae73

Distributed teams: Better communication and engagement
https://kimmoir.blog/2017/12/21/distributed-teams-better-communication-engagement/

Informal Communication in an all-remote environment

https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/informal-communication/

Pair Programming

Remote pair programming · James Bowman
http://www.jamesbowman.me/post/remote-pair-programming/

Counter Arguments

Stop Remote Working!
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stop-remote-working-jurgen-appelo

I’m not a remote worker
http://www.noop.nl/2013/12/im-not-a-remote-worker.html

Interesting Software

Miro: the collaborative whiteboard platform for distributed teams
https://miro.com/

Slido - Audience Interaction Made Easy
https://www.sli.do/

Jitsi Meet
https://meet.jit.si/

Google Jamboard: Interactive Business Whiteboard 
https://gsuite.google.com/products/jamboard/

Focus Mate - Distraction-free productivity

https://www.focusmate.com/