Remote Working – Has Its Time Come?

This week, Northern Europe has been on high alert because of a mysterious #BeastfromtheEast — a storm of such magnitude that it has led to food shortages and general shut down across my home nation.

This Wednesday morning, after grabbing some essentials at the shops, I got back to my desk by about 10 (yes I did throw a few snowballs — come on!) and got back to work. With the work we do at meetingRoom.io and our belief in remote work, we admit, we are biased to think this is just a crazy approach to work in 2018.

Our team lives and breaths the problems that doing remote work itself is addressing. The good news is that there is another way. A remote way.

The Benefits of Remote Work

Time

You can get everyone together quickly — react when the problem hits rather than when the next time everyone is in a room together.

Growth

All organisations are trying to grow, but when the expansion hits, can you find people in your location?

Culture

People complain about poor remote work cultures — we think that the benefits mean that it can be better than being in office.

Robustness

We didn’t have to reschedule any of our internal calls so far this week, and we were able to get real meaningful work done between a group of 9 people from all over Ireland. We were able to do it comfortably and warm while the country lost it over bread.

The Turning Point: Digital Enablement

Remote work is a no brainer and exposing your business to the risk of Irish weather is no way to work in 2018.

But not everything about remote working is perfect. Conference calls are often a huge barrier to productivity, so we at meetingRoom are building a tool to change that.

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Originally published on Medium.