Remote Work
Team Teleport is currently distributed across 5 countries, plus we tend to travel around quite a bit. While moving ourselves and our families around the globe has made us all too familiar with the hassles this lifestyle brings, we still strongly believe that quality of knowledge work is not a function of one’s physical location.
Team Teleport’s current locations – live!
In addition to mapping out the relocation nuisances we could fix with software, we aim to offer advice and information on remote work to encourage those around us to find their best place(s) and become location independent. Here is our collection of remote work related articles, stories, tools and resources.
Teleport’s writings on remote work
- Remote work – practicing what we preach
- Teleport’s favourite tools for remote teamwork
- Best sites for finding your dream remote job
- The initial roadblocks of remote work (and how to overcome them)
- Slipping away – the pains and gains of a nomadic lifestyle
- How to do remote work from the Galápagos islands
- How to ask your employer to let you work remotely (and deal with a “no”)
- Remote workers: find your personal power hours
- The epic list of remote working tools
- How to improve productivity when working (remotely)
- Visa tips for remote workers
- The epic list of remote working tools
Talking to others
- Sten Tamkivi’s interview with Pajamas.io
- Teleport and remote work on Remote.co
- Teleport’s Q and A with Sara Sutton Fell – founder of FlexJobs
- Guerric de Ternay’s discussion on the importance of good writing
- You’re not an island – why freelancers and remote workers need communities
- What going remote did for Elementary Digital
Remote working tools
- Teleport Sundial – keep tabs on your remote team’s locations and timezones
- Teleport Flock – calculate the optimal place for your next meetup and book the trip in minutes
- Teleport Runway – see how your team budget in your current city compares to other locations around the world
- Teleport Directory of moving tools and resources
Other resources
- Crowdsourced spreadsheet of remote working teams
- Free People Move podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes