How to Build a Remote Team: Resources and Advice from Remote Companies

How about be willing to hire experienced engineers who don&#x27;t have remote experience?<p>Every time I&#x27;ve applied for a remote job, this seems to have been the sticking point. I&#x27;d just like employers to start with the assumption that I&#x27;m a professional who wouldn&#x27;t slack off all day if I didn&#x27;t have someone to babysit me.

I just wanted to buy a ticket for the Running Remote conference, and then I saw that there are only on-site tickets ...

One thing I have been thinking about is that remote companies will have difficulty with leadership that doesn’t understand the tech they are working with. When I look at my current company even one or two levels up there are people who have no understanding of a lot of technology and aren’t able to make quick judgement calls. So they need a lot of meetings and salesmanship within the company to make decisions. When I look at successful remote companies like Automatic, 37 Signals or StackOverflow they all have very strong leaders who can’t be bullshitted in technology but have a pretty good idea what they want to do. They also can judge the output of their people. It’s hard to be the boss of a remote worker whose work you don’t understand. How can you tell if somebody is good or not?

Building a successful remote company is no different than building a successful on-site company.<p>It&#x27;s about culture, and about setting the right processes with the right toolset.<p>Establishing a great communication flow [1] is key for remote companies, and you have to help your teams to:<p>· Create a community feeling<p>· Get to see each other face-to-face daily<p>· Be open about feelings<p>I recently wrote a few tips on how to set the right environment for remote work [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;standups.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;communicating-better-in-distributed-teams&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;standups.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;communicating-better-in-distributed...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;standups.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;a-productive-environment-for-remote-work&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;standups.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;a-productive-environment-for-remote...</a>

we are just building a new remote team, and what we are missing is a good&#x2F;affordable collaborative whiteboard or mindmap solution.<p>something where we can visually structure our work.<p>for the rest we have etherpad (as alfernative to google docs) and gitlab with all its tools to structure issues

Made a virtual office space for my team for just these reasons! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mydigitaloffice.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mydigitaloffice.io&#x2F;</a><p>With over 40% of companies allowing some weekdays to be at home, this is the future!

The article appears to end prematurely - last item I see is &quot;Start Slowly&quot;