Rocking Remote Work: Living Your Best Life & Maintaining Your Sanity

Remote work is all the rage these days as more and more companies have started to go remote or offer remote friendly positions, but not everyone knows how to navigate this new reality.

I'm going to talk about the fabulous benefits of remote work, the potential pitfalls and how to mitigate them, how to hold on to your sanity, not need to shrink the kids (if you have them), and have a grand old time doing it all.

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1. Rocking Remote Work Living Your Best Life & Maintaining Your Sanity © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 1
2. What is Remote Work? © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 2
3. What is Remote Work? 4 Work outside a traditional office 4 Teleworking / Telecommuting / "Work from home" 4 Freelancers & Entrepreneurs already have a taste © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 3
4. https://open.buffer.com/remote-working-scale/ © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 4
5. Remote Work Myths © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 5
6. Poor communication 1 1 Photo by Icons8 team © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 6
7. Slacking off and not working 2 2 Photo by Artem Bali © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 7
8. Ineffective Meetings 3 3 Photo by Rafael Nir © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 8
9. Team cohesion is impossible 4 4 Photo by Perry Grone © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 9
10. Burdens of Remote Work © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 10
11. Internet Connectivity 5 5 Photo by Bernard Hermant © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 11
12. Security Worries 6 6 Photo by Hugues de Buyer-Mimeure © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 12
13. Distractions 7 7 Photo by Maria Teneva © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 13
14. Isolation & Loneliness 8 8 Photo by Carlos "Grury" Santos © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 14
15. Being Always On 9 9 Photo by Freddie Marriage © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 15
16. Benefits of Remote Work © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 16
17. Talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not 1 Leila Janah © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 17
18. Talent Diversity 10 10 Photo by Samantha Gades © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 18
19. Higher Productivity 11 11 Photo by Carl Heyerdahl © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 19
20. Cost Savings 12 12 Photo by Michael Longmire © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 20
21. Retain Knowledge & Investments 13 13 Photo by You X Ventures © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 21
22. Work from Your Happy 14 Place(s) [^15] 14 Photo by Designecologist [^15]: Photo by Joshua Coleman © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 22
23. Flexibility 16 16 Photo by David Hofmann © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 23
24. How to Rock It © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 24
25. Build a routine but allow flexibility 17 17 Photo by Curtis MacNewton © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 25
26. Actually close from work 18 18 Photo by Tim Mossholder © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 26
27. Get out of the darned house 19 19 Photo by Peter Gonzalez © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 27
28. Meetups & Conferences 20 20 Photo by Teemu Paananen © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 28
29. Hobbies & Volunteering 21 21 Photo by Giulia Bertelli © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 29
30. Recap © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 30
31. Recap 4 What Remote Work is 4 Remote Work Myths 4 Burdens of Remote Work 4 Benefits of Remote Work 4 Tips for Rocking Remote Work © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 31
32. Some Cool Things to Check out 4 Tech Companies offerring remote opportunities - https:// remoteintech.company/ 4 Sites to advertise and look up remote positions 4 https://weworkremotely.com/ 4 https://remoteok.io/ 4 Nomad or considering it, find your place - https:// nomadlist.com/ © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 32
33. Luminus Alabi Hi 4 Happiness Engineer @ Automattic 4 Equal Opportunities Hugs Dispenser Hi ! @luminus // " https://luminus.alabi.blog © Luminus Alabi | WordCamp Bristol 2019 33