Episode 14: Remote Work: past, COVID19, and future

Noa Tamir is our awesome new host, and Raz Shuty met remotely to talk about remote work, but also about this specific occasion of remote work with Covid-19...

Trying to understand what is remote work first of all, what are our feelings and experiences and talk about different models (and what it means how it differs from the current reality we are experiencing now) 

We mentioned in this episode

Intro: 

• What's remote working even?
• What are the benefits?
• What are the downsides?

Our experiences:

• flexible, if-needed, prohibited 

Different models of working remotely:

• A remote employee (minimal amount) in an on-premise place
• Partial remote/partial on-prem
• Flexible
• Fully Remote
• Unplanned remote with further complications (kids at home, caring for others, stress, not being prepared)

We mentioned in this episode

• Raz mentioned:
  • My Group’s Remote Working Manifesto
  • Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours
  • Spotify Tribes
• Noa mentioned: 
  • Basecamp‘s Update to employees
• Tools:
  • Zoom
  • Google Hangouts
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Slack
  • Snap Camera
  • Mattermost
  • Firebase
  • PyCharm
  • VS Code Live
  • Team Retro
  • Jira
  • TeamViewer
  • Usenet
  • IRC