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Jessica Reeder

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I'm going to have to start a thread for amazing press that is coming in for @gitlab's #remotework team!

The amazing @darrenmurph spoke with @jenamcgregor about why more companies will soon be hiring a Head of Remote: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/09/head-of-remote-work-jobs/

Hot new job title in a pandemic: ‘Head of remote work’

Some tech companies are carving out new jobs for executives to act as advocates for virtual workers and to think more broadly about a more lasting remote future.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/09/head-of-remote-work-jobs/

. @darrenmurph published a detailed piece in the HBR about how #remote really works - in collaboration with two @insead experts. https://hbr.org/2020/09/remote-work-doesnt-have-to-mean-all-day-video-calls

Remote Work Doesn’t Have to Mean All-Day Video Calls

Three rules from a company that’s been fully remote since 2014.

https://hbr.org/2020/09/remote-work-doesnt-have-to-mean-all-day-video-calls

Thrilled to see my name in @FastCompany for the first time, as part of a feature on @gitlab's all-remote culture. Thank you @juliarherbst! https://www.fastcompany.com/90548691/extremely-transparent-and-incredibly-remote-gitlabs-radical-vision-for-the-future-of-work

GitLab’s radical vision for the future of remote work

As 2020’s experiment with working from home turns into something more permanent, GitLab—the world’s largest all-remote company—offers a glimpse of what’s ahead, for better or worse.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90548691/extremely-transparent-and-incredibly-remote-gitlabs-radical-vision-for-the-future-of-work

Financial Times' @pilitaclark gives the thumbs-up to @gitlab's 25-minute coffee chats, a good hack for replacing water-cooler chat in a remote office. https://www.ft.com/content/ff9a37c1-7f21-4a86-acd9-753d4f1ec2ac

Five smart ways to handle remote work, and two dumb ones

There are many ways companies can help isolated staff feel connected, gag rules are not one of them

https://www.ft.com/content/ff9a37c1-7f21-4a86-acd9-753d4f1ec2ac

"It’s one thing to buy your employees an ergonomic office chair or a second monitor. It’s quite another to restructure how teams collaborate and communicate."

@mlevram reviewed GitLab's new #remotework management course today in @FortuneMagazine. https://fortune.com/2020/09/22/work-from-home-class-coursera-gitlab/

Want to know how to WFH better? There's a class for that.

Software maker GitLab, which has a fully-remote workforce, devised the free online course for learning platform Coursera.

https://fortune.com/2020/09/22/work-from-home-class-coursera-gitlab/

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