No, remote employees aren’t becoming less engaged. Or are they? ??

Welcome to the Running Remote biweekly digest! Every second week, we collect the best articles, videos, and podcasts covering remote work trends for you. Enjoy!

In this issue:

• Read curated articles with best practices in remote team management
• Learn creative ideas for celebrating holidays with your team
• Get the latest news about the upcoming Running Remote conference

The best practices in remote management & industry news ??

> How to make great decisions async (and avoid endless meetings) | Doist

90% of decisions can be made async. Follow this 5-step process to do it effectively.

> Playbook: Building Resilient Workplaces | Loom

This guide draws on insights from leaders at Oyster?, HubSpot, Crunchyroll, and GitLab to teach organizations how to become more resilient to external factors––even in times of volatility or uncertainty.

> UK staff to have right to ask for flexible working from day one in job | BBC

The legislation was brought forward but unions say the government could go further to make it ‘the norm’.

> No, Remote Employees Aren’t Becoming Less Engaged | HBR

New research on meetings shows that employees have more short, one-on-one meetings compared to 2020, and those meetings are increasingly spontaneous (meaning they weren’t set up in advance on the calendar).

> My son is autistic. Remote work will give him a better future. | Business Insider

How working remotely has allowed a father of an autistic son to be around him and give him the attention and care he needs.

What's new about Running Remote 2023 ???

Running Remote is 4 months away, but our conference line-up is already taking an exciting shape ??

At our Lisbon conference in April 2023, you can definitely count on learning from:

• Casey Fenton, Co-Founder of Couchsurfing on attracting, motivating, & retaining top workers with equity
• Mark Cruth, Modern Work Designer and Evangelist at Atlassian on unexpected trends in modern work from Atlassian's latest research
• Paolo Belcastro, Head of Product & Operation at Automattic on the difference between remote and distributed
• Bridget Harris, Co-founder of YouCanBook.Me on when to employ, contract or outsource - scaling operations to 12 Countries in under 18 months
• Andreas Klinger, Pre-seed & Seed Investor at Remote First Capital on building remote engineering teams
• Tara Vasdani, Managing Partner at Remote Law Canada on the top legal implications associated with remote work
• Ryan Chartrand, CEO at X-Team on the future of remote

Some of our upcoming panels we're already excited about:

• How to maintain flexibility in a hybrid organization (HubSpot, Microsoft,?People Conscience)
• Change management: rolling out remote strategies across departments (Typeform, Zendesk)
• Designing a workplace strategy as a desirable place to work (Microverse, ExecuPrep)

... and this is just a taste of what is waiting for you if you join Running Remote 2023 in Lisbon or virtually! ??

Check out the schedule here

??PS: Soon we will make an exciting announcement about another speaker that you've surely already heard of and learnt from. Stay tuned to find out more! ??

?? 4 days left - grab your Early Bird tickets now ??

Quick - you can only purchase our Early Bird tickets until December 17!

From Saturday, you will get a single pass for the Running Remote Conference in April 2023 for $799 instead of the current $599 price.

Reserve your seat before the weekend and save $200

Looking for creative ideas to celebrate holidays with your remote team? ????

Here are a few from the?Running Remote community?members.

• My team had the epic idea of organizing "gingerbread" wars as an online team activity. The winner is ... (you guessed it) the person that made the most beautiful/fabulous/creative gingerbread. –?Alexandrina Danifeld | Head of Talent at Liv.it
• We usually try to do holiday gifts exchange, starting with an engagement event (this year, we are running an online game show with LunaPark) and a company wellness day (to spend with loved ones). Last year we also had a professional chef as well imparting some cooking tips. – Sucharith Menon | Head of Talent & Culture at LeadIQ
• We run a creative workshop through a company called 28muses. Last year it was a music "drawing" class, this year we just did a workshop on Chinese character calligraphy -- first learning some history and then inventing our own characters. It was so fun to guess who drew each character. – Vlad Lokshin | Co-founder at Turtle
• I always ran a "global cookie exchange" people would fill out a form with their address and dietary restrictions then we'd match them with another employee participating. People would bake their favorite winter cookies and mail them to one another. The only requirement was to post a video of the unboxing! Such an amazing and heartwarming activity. – Darcy Boles | ex-Director of Culture at TaxJar

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