I started my day with a fantastic call as part of the Progress Community. I mentioned in the conversation that while I hope I’m offering support to newly-remote workers, I fear that my network already tends to work more flexibly. I wondered how I could reach those who would benefit more. Their advice was to offer a summary that our broader networks could share. This post is that summary. Whether or not you share this particular post -- please do think about how you can reach those who may benefit from your own remote work experience. Thank you, too, for telling me about more resources to add below.

Selection of My Remote Work Posts

• One Team, Many Places: An Archive Example from Microsoft: Great examples of working with remote teams.

• Crisis Online Format - COF in a COVID-19 Work and Education Environment: The ways we’re working and learning aren’t great right now, and that’s ok — includes other resources.

• Work Crafting Via Negotiated Change. Tips on how to improve what may have been an abrupt jump to remote work.

• How-To: Work Crafting with Automation. Tips on how to augment your work with automation. 

• Technical Opportunities to Support COVID-19 Response. List of paid and volunteer opportunities.

List of Resources From Others -- Very Small Subset of All the Good Support Available

• Sara Rosso. 10 More (Leadership!) Lessons from 10 Years Working in a Fully-Distributed and Remote Company

• TopTal. Very detailed how-to/playbook on having a remote organization. Spans security to worklife. Thank you, Kathlyn Tantaun.

• Cognizant Center for the Future of Work. White papers, blogs, books, podcasts, videos, infographics, tweets – you name it, they’ve got it. Thank you, Robert Brown.

• Workplace Evolutionaires. Changing the world, one workplace at a time. Thank you, Kate North.

• Colliers Knowledge Leader. Flexible workspace issues — especially helpful for those in open, essential, businesses.

• Global Workplace Analytics: Work at Home Tips for Employers. Thank you, Kate Lister and all.

• Owl Labs: The Comprehensive Guide to Remote Work

• Constellation Research: A Guide to Remote Work During COVID-19. Thank you, Dion Hinchcliffe and all.

• Free Digital Version of The Year Without Pants. I voted for a different image when Scott Berkun crowdsourced the cover, but I do thank Scott and Wiley for sharing his experiences from working at Automattic/Wordpress.com -- an always remote place -- for free.

• Remote Leadership Toolkit - Thank you, Dan Pontefract

• Reinventing Jobs by Jesuthasan & Boudreau - Great book for helping you see your work, not just your job. That is a first step for the work crafting we all need to do today (and always).

• What Job Crafting Looks Like. HBR post from Jane E. Dutton and Amy Wrzesniewski

Be Well

Thank you for letting me share this post, and thank you, Progress Community, for the idea. My first research project, started in 1984, focused on the then relatively new concept of “telecommuting.” Since then my work has always presumed flexibility in work design. Many remote work experts are offering support, and I will add other resources from my network here as I find them or you share them with me. The key is that we understand that everyone’s situation is different and that we will likely need to negotiate any changes with our teams, leaders, and clients/users.

My best to you and your loved ones.