Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work
Remote work expert David Tate wrote that when fearful CEOs talk about workplace culture, they’re really talking about workplace…
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Free digital version of The Year Without Pants (my book on Remote Work)
[UPDATE: the book is no longer free! Sorry if you missed it. We gave it away to all for…
Why Remote Workers Fail
[On Tuesdays I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the archive). This week’s question is from Regina [330…
Why Isn’t Remote Work More Popular?
I wrote the popular book The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com & The Future of Work about my 18 months working…
How To Convince Your Boss To Try Something New
Powerful people often become conservative. Once they’re in charge, it’s easy to feel that the knowledge that helped them…
How Remote Work Improves Diversity
A good question about The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com & The Future of Work from Sibylle, in a comment: I…
Remote work @ WordPress.com by the numbers (Infographic)
[Update: I learned a lesson about infographic spam after posting this] Here’s a quick visual rundown on remote work and…
FAQ about The Year Without Pants (with satisfying answers)
It has been a great few months for The Year Without Pants (the book about my year managing a team…
Book Review: Remote: Office Not Required, by 37Signals
In writing The Year Without Pants, about my year working for the 100% remote organization at WordPress.com, I deliberately avoided…
Do You Need That Meeting?
I’m sitting in Kevin Hoffman‘s session at UI18 on Running Better Meetings. He makes good arguments about facilitation and visual…
How to transition a team to remote work
Vivek Haldar wrote this thoughtful review of The Year Without Pants. His primary critique is there wasn’t enough focus on…
Q&A about The Year Without Pants
The folks at Jossey-Bass asked me a few questions about The Year Without Pants. I’m reposting them here: You…
Mega list of Remote Work Tips and Tricks
There is a ton of advice on remote work and I’m compiling a list of good, simple advice for…
Ten Great Reasons To Try The Year Without Pants
If you’re not sure if the book The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com & The Future of Work is for you,…
The Year Without Pants: Official Movie Trailer
I think you folks will like this, and it’s definitely worth watching thru to the last shot. If you…
Free chapter: The Year Without Pants
Hi there. I’m proud to share with you today a free chapter for The Year Without Pants. The official…
Facts and Myths about Remote work
While working on The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work (An Amazon.com best book of 2013), I’ve…
What work traditions need to go away?
One theme of my book The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com & The Future of Work, is questioning aging work…
Grand summary of posts on Remote work & Yahoo
With my upcoming book about my experience at WordPress.com, where everyone works from home, I’ve been following the Yahoo announcement closely.…
In Defense of Remote work (and Marissa Mayer)
Recently Yahoo CEO Marrisa Mayer decreed that working from home would be banned at the company. In a company…