Remote Work
By:
Sameer Rahmani (@lxsameer)
From:
Who am I ?
I ...
- have about 15 years experience in programming
- have over thousands of contributes to FOSS world
- am official GNU project developer
- am a member of Debian Python team
- am a contributor of lots of projects like: Emacs, Kernel, Ruby, RubyOnRails, Bash, ReactNative, . . .
- am an expert on:
C/C++ , Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, Javascript, Clojure, Lisp, Lua
Experiences
- About 8 years of remote work with following companies:
- Yellowen
- ID8
- Buzzjective
- Gastrol
- Vmarket
- Binary
15 minutes isn't enough
Who is the audience of this talk:
- Entrepreneurs
- Business owners
- Developers (employees in general)
- Project managers
- CTO's
- CEO's
What is remote work?
Why Working Remotely?
Fact #1:
People can not spend their time efficiently in offices!
Office time
- To many distractions & interruptions
- Too many small chunks of time
- Cost of context switching
- Meeting syndrome
- Negative energy
- Synchronous collaboration
- There are lots of unhappy employees
Remote work
- Concentration, Concentration, Concentration
- You're alone with your thoughts
- A big chunk of time without interruption
- Work where ever feels like it
- Schedule your own time
- Asynchronous collaboration
- Happiness caused by managing your work place
Fact #2:
It's the era of technology!
Free international calls
Video Conferences
Async free text chat services
Online collaboration services
Technology allows you to:
- Not waste your time and energy. e.g in traffic.
- Be in touch with people from all around the world.
- Not go crazy over un-necessary interactions.
- promote your life quality.
- ....
Fact #3:
Talents are everywhere not only in hubs
- More choices for a role.
- Hire the best fit for your business.
- Find exactly what you need.
Fact #4:
It's not about the Money
Remote work does mean that:
- You can pay your employees less salary
- You should outsource your job to India
- You have the right to not pay your employees insurance.
- ....
But saving is always nice!
Save money by:
- Reducing office space ( or even no office ).
- Cut back the furnitures and devices money.
- Cut back on energy costs.
- Travel expenses.
- ....
Fact #5
You can have your office and everything and still do remote.
Fact #6:
Still a trade-off
Examples of cons:
- Lazy employee
- Weak managment
- Time Zone
- Communication break down
- Sync communications
- ....
Bear in mind that:
- Think before getting to anything
- Start small
- Study about your case
- Take your time with it
- Start with teams not individuals
- Hire slow, fire fast
The most important companies:
- Adobe
- Autodesk
- Redhat
- Heroku
- Symantec
- IBM
- Dell
- Apple
- ....
Looking for more info & solutions?
Read these good reads
Cool places to check
Karajlug.org
IranOnRails.ir
tech5.ir
RadioBoot.com
Where to find me
@lxsameer
on
Twitter/Github/freenode#5hit
Email:
lxsameer@gnu.org
lxsameer@yellowen.com
http://www.lxsameer.com