Episode #115- Remote Working Does and Can Work For All with Tamara Sanderson

Remote work has been a buzzword since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and it has absolutely changed the landscape of business management across the entire world. But it isn’t a new concept. Working remotely has been a part of many organizations’ work model for quite a long time, which happens to be true for today’s guest, Tamara Sanderson.

Tamara Sanderson is the co-founder of Remote Works, an organizational design and consulting firm with a mission to liberate teams from the 9-5 and teach them to do their best work, anytime, anywhere. She is also the co-author of a book by the same name, which sounds like something that has just been written because of Covid-19, but her work predates Covid by quite some time. 

In our conversation today, we talk a lot about the issues and concerns organizations have about remote work and how to find the right balance. Leaders need to adapt their style when going into remote work and managers need to find the right balance when giving employees the autonomy they need to be successful. So many timely topics feed into this discussion about remote work, like burnout, fatigue, leadership style, and technology.

 

What We Talked About in This Episode:

• The promise of liberating people from 9-5 work

• Different ways for organizations to unlock this possibility

• The great debate about remote and hybrid work

• Forcing a transition after Covid-19

• Becoming thoughtful about documentation

• Remote work is all about behavior change

• Remote Works book by Tamara Sanderson and co-author Ali Green

• Forming and Performing

• Remote culture and internet culture

• The benefits of team meetups for all-remote companies

• Adapting leadership style

• The impact of modeling desired behavior

• Training employees to be their own manager

• Identifying burnout

• The normalcy of burnout

• The three M’s of taking breaks

• Tamara’s book recommendations and daily rituals

About Our Guest:

Tamara Sanderson is the co-founder of Remote Works, an organizational design and consulting firm with a mission to liberate teams from the 9-5 and teach them to do their best work, anytime, anywhere. She is also the co-author of Remote Works: Managing for Freedom, Flexibility, and Focus, recently released in February of 2023. Tamara was a remote worker before she knew it had a name. She began her career as a management consultant at Oliver Wyman (where she took any international project that came her way) and as a private equity analyst at Audax Group. Later, she cut her teeth on tech and design at Google, Automattic (WordPress