Remote: Office Not Required
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Ratings52
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For too long our lives have been dominated by the ‘under one roof’ Industrial Revolution model of work. That era is now over. There is no longer a reason for the daily roll call, of the need to be seen with your butt on your seat in the office. The technology to work remotely and to avoid the daily grind of commuting and meetings has finally come of age, and bestselling authors Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson are the masters of making it work at tech company 37signals. Remote working is the future – and it is rushing towards us. Remote: Office Not Required combines eye-opening ideas with entertaining narrative. It will convince you that working remotely increases productivity and innovation, and it will also teach you how to get it right – whether you are a manager, working solo or one of a team. Chapters include: ‘Talent isn’t bound by the hubs’, ‘It’s the technology, stupid’, ‘When to type, when to talk’, ‘Stop managing the chairs’ and ‘The virtual water cooler’. Brilliantly simple and refreshingly illuminating this is a call to action to end the tyranny of being shackled to the office.
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Kinda all fluff and dreams. The authors spend a LOT of time just talking about all of the benefits of remote work, trying to sell you to let your team work remote. I was expecting this book to be a lot more about the practicals on how to work remote! If you are looking to convince a manager to let you work remote,
A good overview of the remote work movement
A very quick and breezy read on the benefits of remote work and specific strategies to introduce it in your workplace.
The book is very clearly biased towards remote work. I liked all the actionable tips the authors included, however, I wish it would have more critically looked at the downsides and how to overcome them. Though I feel remote work has many positives, I would have liked to read a more critical view of the trend with a focus on how to address all the potential issues, as I am certain it will continue to gain steam as technology makes it easier and easier to work remotely.
Not quite as good as Rework but still a solid read from Jason Fried and DHH.
A truly great book in defense of remote working, with a lot of good points, tips and tricks, well built and argued. By reading it you'll wonder why there are still company / managers that are so against remote working (and perhaps realize also how many things are wrong in your company...).
