Quotes About Remote

A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.

The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.

Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base.

That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

one condition: that she be allowed to work from home.

That's the great irony of letting passionate people work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry about his workers not getting enough work done, but the real threat is that too much will likely get done. And because the manager isn't sitting across from his worker anymore, he can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.

Forcing everyone into the office every day is an organizational SPoF.

remote work has opened the door to a new era of freedom and luxury. A brave new world beyond the industrial-age belief in The Office.

The ability to be alone with your thoughts is, in fact, one of the key advantages of working remotely. When you work on your own, far away from the buzzing swarm at headquarters, you can settle into your own productive zone. You can actually get work done—the same work that you couldn't get done at work! Yes

There's simply no getting around it: in hiring for remote-working positions, managers should be ruthless in filtering out poor writers.

The scarcity of such face time in remote working situations makes it seem that much more valuable. And as a result, something interesting happens: people don't waste the time. An awareness of scarcity makes them use it wisely.

the key intellectual pursuits that are the primary fit for remote working—writing, programming, designing, advising, and customer support, to mention just a few—have little to do with the cutthroat margin wars of, say, manufacturing.

great remote workers are simply great workers. They exhibit the two key qualities, as Joel Spolsky labeled them in his "Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing":fn1 Smart, and Gets Things Done.

Today you can work from home or collaborate with people you've never met who live thousands of miles away. It's time to rework work.

has no prospects of being either, then you don't just need a remote position—you need a new job. Only the office can be secure Companies often go to great lengths to make employees

Most fears that have to do with people working remotely stem from a lack of trust.

The big transition with a distributed workforce is going from synchronous to asynchronous collaboration. Not only do we not have to be in the same spot to work together, we also don't have to work at the same time to work together.

el auténtico enemigo en un ambiente de trabajo a distancia de éxito es el exceso, no el déficit de trabajo.

The big transition with a distributed workforce is going from synchronous to asynchronous collaboration

A company that is efficiently built around remote work doesn't even have to have a set schedule. This is especially important when it comes to creative work. If you can't get into the zone, there's rarely much that can force you into it. When face time isn't a requirement, the best strategy is often to take some time away and get back to work when your brain is firing on all cylinders.

Remote work is not without cost or compromise. In

Geography just doesn't matter anymore. Hire the best talent, regardless of where it is.

In reality, it's overwork, not underwork, that's the real enemy in a successful remote-working environment.

Remote work has already progressed through the first two stages of Gandhi's model for change: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.