Dane Hammer - The First Year Working Remotely

After 8 years driving to an office building, I started working from home. I’ve now spent the last 18 months working remotely, across two jobs. This session will focus on the expectations and the realities, the benefits and the drawbacks, of starting your work day in whatever you slept in.

Transcript

1. The First Year Working Remotely Dane Hammer
2. Outline • Things you’ve heard that are true • Things you’ve heard that are NOT true • Surprises (to both of us?)
3. A Tale of Two Companies
4. A Tale of Two Companies • Some place in Iowa I won’t disparage • New Context in San Francisco
5. The Difference • Side conversations, inclusion
6. The Difference • Slack vs Lync
7. The Difference • Slack vs Lync + Zoom (videoconf) + ScreenHero
8. The Difference What to look for if you want to try it
9. The stereotypes that are true
10. My Commute Normal Commute
11. What you’ve heard that is NOT true
12. What you’ve heard that is NOT true People aren’t magically productive because they’re in an office, they just LOOK productive.
13. Surprises
14. Surprises Work from home? How about work from Montréal?
15. Surprises Work from Greece? Hong Kong? An RV? A sailboat?
16. Surprises
17. Surprises Coworking
18. Conclusion • There’s a lot of perks • You gotta have the right company to do it with
19. Conclusion • You need to know yourself, know if it’s the right thing for you • But at least try it!
20. Literally a “Call to Action” I want you to try it.