RR 2024 Early Bird Sale Ends in 2 weeks!

It's that time of the year again, congrats to so many amazing individuals having secured their tickets to the 2024 chapter of Running Remote in sunny Lisbon! ??

For those who don't have ticket yet, there is still time to save $200 before prices increase on 15 December. This is your chance to join the largest gathering of workplace flexibility experts and company founders under one roof!

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Meet Enterprise companies at Running Remote

The McKinsey's Empty Spaces and Hybrid Places Report 2023 highlights "office attendance is lower in large firms in the knowledge economy" - smaller employee count companies require more days at the office. The number of successful workplace flexibility programs springing up in multi-national corps is astounding. Running Remote 2024 conference in Lisbon will provide an opportunity to connect enterprise teams with excellent workplace flexibility results, with expert audience of remote-first company leaders. The?agenda is designed to help enterprise employers optimize the integration of their on-site, hybrid, and remote work strategies.?Attend the Enterprise Track and find all sessions relevant to large companies.?

The Enterprise Academy: Conference Day 1, 22 April 2024, The Hyatt Regency: Whether you are struggling with leadership alignment, concerned about the impact of your new workplace model on key performance indicators, or facing challenges in the implementation of your chosen strategy, this full-day event promises to deliver value. Limited to 60 participants with 1k+ employees.

Leading the Enterprise Academy are experienced veterans who understand from first-hand experience the complexities of launching, managing, and optimizing distributed work strategies at scale. The Academy is curated by:

• Rosie Sargeant, Project Leader @ Boston Consulting Group
• Brian Elliott, Co-Founder @ Future Forum
• Dr Kate Lister, President @ Global Workplace Analytics
• Sacha Connor, CEO @ VirtualWorkInsider

Click here to know more about Enterprise Academy 2024

Join us to learn about the future of flexible work in 2-minute snapshots by 16 enterprise leaders

To celebrate enterprise companies propelling the remote work movement forward, we are hosting a virtual showdown of 16 top enterprise experts sharing insights on overcoming the unique obstacles large organizations face transitioning to flexible work strategies, each in just 2-minutes, including:

• Annie Dean, VP, Team Anywhere at Atlassian on Data-Driven Real Estate Decisions
• Beth White, Founder & CEO at MeBeBot?
• Darren Murph, Head of Technology Strategy Communications at Ford Motor Company on Culture
• Nick Bloom, Professor of Economics at Stanford University on WFH & Productivity
• Lara Owen, VP, Workplace Experience at NetApp on Getting Executive Buy-in

Join us for Distributed Workplace Unboxed, a fast-paced and information-packed event on 6 December. We've just crossed 500 registrations and we have limited spots available. If you can't be there, sign up to receive the recording. 6 December, 11am PT

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This event is powered by?Desana, a platform that simplifies the way companies give their distributed teams access to workspace, anywhere.

Take part in the 2024 Workation in Portugal

There's nothing quite like hearing real-time examples from your peers about their companies & experiences in an intimate & inspiring setting with a warm sea breeze. Join us for the post-conference 3-day Workation program on 25-28 April, 45 mins from Lisbon (direct shuttle from conference venue).

For this cohort we we are inviting founders & C-level executives running remote-first and remote-friendly organisations with 100+ employees.?

Through intimate mastermind sessions and collaborative activities, 9 participants will receive valuable advice, practical tips, and inspiration from their peers.

The program will be facilitaed by David Henzel, CEO at upcoach. Aside from upcoach (Coaching Delivery System), David’s portfolio of companies includes LTVplus, TaskDrive, Shortlist.io. We are excited to share this space with David!?See who else is attending.

There is more: a magnificent cliffside property in one of the most picturesque villages in Portugal, wine tasting, surfing, yoga, meals prepared by a chef, etc. We believe it's people like you who will make it an exceptional experience.

P.S. Our team site-visit last week confirmed the location is mind-settling.

Click HERE to Apply for the Workation

Job Openings

Curated list of job openings from the Running Remote Community members:

• MailerLite, remote-first email marketing company (SaaS) with 150+ people across 40 countries is looking for a new talent:? - Brand designer - a self-motivated individual who thrives on creativity and collaboration. Geographic requirements: based in the eastern regions of the Americas (EDT and CDT time zones), Europe or Africa, and western Asia. - Product owner - to help the Product team ship improvements and new features. Anywhere in the world.
• Float, a fully remote, async & bootstrapped company building software for teams to plan their time with diverse team of 47, working across 20+ countries, is hiring for for a few positions right now, including: - Talent Manager - responsible for strategic recruitment, leading activities across the whole recruitment pipeline. This role is 100% remote but must be US-based due to the above compliance responsibilities. - Senior Product Marketer - to develop and drive their product marketing strategy that focuses on increasing monthly trials and customers.

On the Internet

Curated list of articles with best practices in remote work management & industry news

• Boss Class Podcast: Out of Office | The Economist To manage a workforce divided between the home and office, bosses should ask the five basic questions of journalism: who, what, where, when and why. Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Jane Sun, the CEO of Trip.com Group, and Lidiane Jones, the CEO of Slack, give their divergent views.?
• Desks by the hour: why flexible offices are a hit with business | Financial Times New form of co-working offers companies ability to expand or shrink space when needed
• Your Workplace Is Already Distributed | WSJ Distributed work is the new normal. Here’s what it means for your organization.
• How companies allowing remote work outperform those that don’t | worklife New data could shift the conversation around?productivity metrics?and returning to offices among leaders still resisting more flexible policies.
• ?An expensing firm CFO just revealed how remote work changes employee perks: ‘Things are much more likely to be expensed than if you’re at your office’ | Yahoo What counts as a business expense? Depending on who you ask—or how closely your manager is keeping an eye on you—the answer could be as straightforward as an ergonomic desk chair or as outlandish as Taylor Swift tickets.?
• The fight over return-to-office is getting dirty | Business Insider Amazon has built its $1.3 trillion empire largely by tracking and evaluating almost every aspect of a customer's life. From a new TV to a toilet-paper refill, Amazon knows what a customer wants and when they want it, and it's always ready to serve it to them. This obsession with metrics and data, however, does not appear to extend to certain parts of Amazon's workplace.
• [Behind a paywall] Is Remote Work the Answer to Women’s Prayers, or a New ‘Mommy Track’ | The New York Times Post-pandemic work-from-home norms allowed more women to stay in the work force than ever before. Remote work could also make it harder to get ahead.

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