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In this episode, we're returning to our conversation with Darren Murph, the Head of Remote at GitLab, originally recorded in July 2021. As we navigate the shifting landscapes of remote work in March 2024, Darren's insights on fostering company culture from a distance have only become more salient. This revisit highlights Darren's valuable strategies for cultivating a strong, unified company culture in remote settings and reflects on how these approaches have stood the test of time. Tune in to rediscover Darren's expert advice and explore how his wisdom continues to guide teams towards embracing and embodying their culture, no matter where they are. For more stories of remote teams doing great things, visit https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com.

--------- EPISODE CHAPTERS WITH SHORT KEY POINTS --------- (0:00:12) - Remote Company Operations and Knowledge ManagementDaren explains the importance of low context communication, compounding interest, and over communicating for successful remote teams. (0:08:59) - Embracing Remote Work as Operating ModelDaren Murph and I discuss operations of successful remote companies, process definition, documentation, culture, macroeconomic downturn, investing in operations, and using history as a guide. (0:20:22) - Knowledge Management and Generative AIWe examine knowledge management, Generative AI data sets, and remote onboarding for successful companies. (0:25:52) - Remote Onboarding's Impact on EngagementRemote work success is achieved through discipline, connection, and a balanced work-life ratio. (0:41:25) - Engaging Town Hall Strategies and PerspectivesDarren shares advice on effective remote work, from town halls to partnering with business leaders, to keep pushing forward.

We've had interesting conversations about remote-first work with leaders like Jordan Husney, Parabol CEO, and Darren Murph who at the time was the global head of remote work at GitLab (thank you Darren for the intro to Adam). Today's guest has been building a platform to make distributed teams productive since long before it was fashionable. Adam Nathan founded Almanac in January of 2019 to challenge incumbents like Microsoft Office and Google's GSuite. Since then, he and the team have enabled organizations like Cisco, Credit Karma, and ByteDance to collaborate in shared workspaces.Adam has raised more than $40M to date across two rounds from a legendary group of investors that includes Floodgate, Tiger Global, and General Catalyst. Prior to Almanac, Adam did his undergrad at Duke and he received his MBA from Harvard. He's also an active volunteer for The Salvation Army.Listen and learn...How being a product manager at Apple and Lyft inspired Adam to start a company to avoid wasting time at workWhat's unique about remote-first workWhy remote teams need structure and transparency to be productiveHow to eliminate time wasted in meetings without losing opportunities to build trusted relationshipsHow to charge for new LLM features in SaaS productsWhy we tolerate LLM hallucinationsWhere there's a gap in the market for a better collaboration experienceWhat Adam has learned from his entrepreneurial journey References in this episode...Jordan Husney from Parabol  on AI and the Future of WorkDarren Murph from GitLab on AI and the Future of WorkWhy we need to shut down AI development to prevent AGIAlmanac.io

Darren Murph literally wrote the handbook on building remote teams, was named the “Oracle of Remote Work” by CNBC, holds a Guinness world record, and was included on the Forbes Future of Work 50 list, amongst many other accolades. He is currently VP of Workplace Design and Remote Experience at Andela, and via his various speaking and consulting projects, he's become the de facto global expert on remote work. But Darren's identity stack goes well beyond his remote work prowess, and in this episode we dive into how his experiences as a world traveler helped shape him into the leader he is today, first as an individual, then as a couple with his wife, and now as a father with their son. We also reflect on our time together at Running Remote in Lisbon, and discuss some of the emerging future of work trends on both a micro and macro level. Follow Darren's work at https://darrenmurph.com/ and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenmurph/. This episode is brought to you by Greenback Tax, the #1 company in the world for US expat taxes, and the team I've trusted with my taxes since 2015. If you're an American living abroad or planning to spend significant time outside the US, you need to talk to Greenback! Easy, affordable, and experienced in the specific niche of US expat taxes. Learn more here https://bit.ly/3CKUYkz If you're enjoying the podcast, please consider taking 2 minutes to leave a short review at: RateThisPodcast.com/aboutabroad Sign up for our monthly newsletter at: aboutabroad.com/newsletter

This installment of the Transform Work Podcast features Darren Murph who is the Vice President of  Workplace Design and Remote Experience at Andela.Andela is a platform that specializes in helping their highly skilled, global technology talent community connect with hundreds of the world's leading companiesDarren has been featured in The Forbes Future of Work 50 and cited by CNBC as an Oracle of Remote Work.

What can you and your organisation do to create a thriving remote work organisation. To discuss this we are joined by guest, Darren Murph, a Remote Work expert. Named an “oracle of remote work” by CNBC and featured in The Forbes Future of Work 50, Darren is a recognized visionary in organizational design. His career is defined by leading remote teams, charting remote transformations, connecting nonobvious dots, and architecting inclusive cultures  Darren holds a Guinness World Record in publishing, and authored GitLab's Remote Playbook and “Living the Remote Dream: A Guide To Seeing the World, Setting Records, and Advancing Your Career.”  Darren has also pioneered the Head of Remote role, and has been interviewed by Harvard Business School, CNBC, CNN, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Fortune, Digiday, Business Insider, and more. In this episode, we explore the future of work and what organisations need to do to create a connected and engaged workforce.  We are undergoing the equivalent of the industrial revolution of our time and as leaders, we need to approach organisational design differently. This episode will challenge your perspectives on where and how people work - it certainly challenged ours! For more information about Darren Murph, other guests, as well as upcoming and past episodes, go to our website Every Step For more information about Every Step head to About Every Step Follow us on: Every Step LinkedIn Judith Beck LinkedIn Krystyna Weston LinkedIn Get your copy of Judith's book ‘No Sex at Work'  Buy Here  We would love to know what you think and we look forward to your comments! Please subscribe and review us on your podcast channel of choice.  You can also find us on YouTube.

When establishing a company from the ground up in a remote-first environment, values and culture serve as the fundamental basis upon which everything else is built. In this episode, Sam Corcos talked with Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab Inc. to discuss their take on building and scaling remote teams. Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on Levels - Inside the Company, where we have in-depth conversations about how the Levels startup team builds a movement from the ground up in the health and wellness tech industry.

Darren Murph has been Head of Remote at GitLab for 3.5 years and has been a part of its rise to prominence. His leadership helped shape GitLab's remote-first culture. GitLab went public in 2021 and has about a $7B market cap. It's one of the leading DevOps platforms and has grown its team to more than 2k employees. Before GitLab Darren has been an entrepreneur, journalist, and author. Oh, and by the way, he holds one of the most awesome records in the Guinness Book of World Records.Listen and learn:How to make work an organizational principle instead of a perk or policyWhat a Head of Remote does... and why every company will soon hire oneWhy there's no such thing as "hybrid" workThe number one mistake organizations make when transitioning to remote workHow remote-first teams make the most of in person teamHow GitLab uses the personal "readme" to help remote employees get to know each otherHow to Zoom happy hours with "community service hours"How Darren earned his place in the Guinness Book of World RecordsReferences in this episode...Matt K. Parker on AI and the Future of WorkDarren Murph on TwitterChase Warrington, Head of Remote at DoistHow voice assistants are helping the elderly age in placeElliQ, the voice assistant from Intuition Robotics

This week we had three return guests for another MPL group chat: Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab Hallie Bregman, The Bregman Group Valerie Jackson, Chief Diversity Officer at Zuora We talked about how COVID has given everyone the opportunity to take the red pill and why focusing on the HOW of work will make the biggest impact on DEI. Timestamps: 7:46 - are concepts like quiet quitting new or have they just been rebranded 9:00 - people are rethinking how they invest in their “purpose portfolio” 12:50 - the unspoken expectations for employees 18:40 - loud retention is the antidote to quiet quitting 21:55 - COVID has given everyone the opportunity to take the red pill 29:26 - has hybrid work made DEI harder or easier in the workplace 35:17 - focusing on the HOW of work and not just the WHERE will make a bigger impact on DEI 44:15 - what the next evolution of DEI work will look like 57:32 - what it means to be a Modern People Leader Subscribe to the MPL Weekly Digest: https://forms.gle/qdt6YaWULfoEHb6n8

Hear how to make your business better, remotely It should be no surprise to you that as an anthropologist specializing in helping companies change, I loved my interview with Liam Martin. As we've all experienced, the pandemic has dramatically changed what we think of as “normal.” In particular, the meaning of work has changed and continues to, as each generation moves into the workforce with different values, beliefs and behaviors. Businesses, both small and large, are trying to recruit, retain and develop their talent pool, only to find that today's workers have very different ideas about what matters to them, reflecting fundamental societal questions about what “really matters” to each of us. Enjoy. Watch and listen to our conversation here Today's podcast contains very valuable data, information and insights about how to manage a remote or hybrid workforce Think of it as today's future way of working. But, as so many of our clients are asking, how do you manage a remote workforce, particularly since women really have embraced remote work? My guest Liam Martin, co-founder of a remote-first company which grew eight figures with people in 43 different countries and no office, says, "Remote work has been our way of working for more than 10 years. We observed that almost 99% of new remote companies during the pandemic could not figure out one thing common to all successful remote-first companies: asynchronous communication, the bedrock of every successful remote business. Here are a few of the new counterintuitive principles Liam and I discuss:  Introverts climb to the top faster in remote-first companies because their thoughtfulness is seen as an asset, not a liability. In remote-first organizations, charismatic leaders are not required; in fact, charisma is one of the biggest barriers to business growth, regardless of whether the company is remotely located or not.  Remote teams operate on autonomy, and contrary to popular belief, the more automated measurements you have within your organization, the more freedom you have.  Remote-first companies have, on average, half as many managers as on-premises companies. Management in remote first-organizations is redundant. Contact Liam via LinkedIn or his two websites: Time Doctor and Running Remote.  Enjoy our conversation. Rethink your own organization. It may be time to change. Perhaps we can help you visualize a new business model for the future—which is really today! Please contact us here.  Want to know more about successfully taking your company remote? Start here. Blog: How Are You Changing How You Work? Is It Working? Blog: The Future Of Work: 5 Most Important Trends To Watch Blog: Virtual Organizations, Hybrid Organizations, And The Most Amazing Workplaces For Tomorrow? Podcast: Teresa Douglas—Unleashing Those Secrets To Working Remotely Additional resources for you My two award-winning books: Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business and On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants   {{cta('20db9f83-fb49-4483-b118-61d915909275','justifyleft')}} Read the transcript of our podcast here Andi Simon: Welcome to On the Brink With Andi Simon. Hi, I'm Andi Simon. As you know, I'm your host and your guide. I'm also a bit of an explorer. And I go looking for really interesting people who are going to help you see, feel and think in ways so you can soar. These are indeed fast-changing times and so the more unusual people I can bring to you, the happier I am. I'm amazed at where people are listening to our podcasts. So thank you, you've pushed us to the top 5% of podcasts across the globe and that's a pretty impressive place to be. And we're now at 327 podcasts, so we just keep going, trying to find great folks. Today I'm quite honored to have Liam Martin with me. Liam has a very interesting story to share with you about the world that we're in. And I'm going to ask him some questions about what is work, what's remote work. I have my own clients who are trying to bring their employees back into the office. And the employees are saying, "Why?" And they're saying, "Why not? We miss you." And they say, "But we don't miss the commute. And we don't mind working out of the house, and we're getting much more productive and we're actually having a life." It's a very interesting time, even as we go post-pandemic. It's hard to know what's going on and who's coming back, and how to use remote and what we've learned wisely. And I think that's the lesson to be learned today. So let me introduce you to Liam. Liam is a serial entrepreneur. He runs something called Time Doctor and staff.com, one of the most popular time-tracking and productivity software platforms in use by top brands today. He's also co-organizer of the world's largest remote work conference, Running Remote, and he'll tell you a little bit about it because it's already happened. I think you're going to wait for next year to make sure you can get there as well. Liam is an avid proponent of remote work and has published in all the major publications. He targets expansion of remote work, not because it's a gig but because it really does work for work. And I've been talking and doing research a lot about what is work, where do we work? When is the home not a home? How can we talk about life-work balance? It's sort of blended, and the pandemic was a catalytic moment for change. And I love change. But it's also been a catalytic moment for wondering about the core values we've got. Liam, thank you for joining me today. Liam Martin: Thanks for having me, Andi. I'm super excited to be able to get into this subject, because I think we're going to be able to get a little bit deeper than the average podcast. Andi Simon: Well, I think that's what I hope to do. I refuse to say: give me three things to talk about. You have a new book out called Running Remote. And it's focused on remote work methodology. And it's a revolutionary guide. And for the listener and the viewer, it is revolutionary because it isn't simply about what you ought to do, it's also how you should do it and why you should do it. But it raises those fundamental questions we're asking, like, what is work? And how do you get it done? And then how do you review the people who are working this way? And what are all the four things that we have in our company? Liam, tell us about you. Who's Liam, how'd you get here? Why is remote work so important to you? Liam Martin: So first off, I'm currently in a chalet in northern Canada. I'm from French Canada. So I'm fluent in both French and English. And I've been working remotely for almost 20 years. I definitely was doing it before everyone thought it was cool. And the reason why I was doing that was, I actually dropped out of my Ph.D. They gave me a professorship, which was a master's degree for dropping out. And I remember teaching my very first class at McGill University. I was incredibly excited about this because this is where I was going in my career. I started with 300 students and ended up with less than 150. And the worst academic reviews in the history of the department. The department had been up and running for 186 years. So pretty bad. I remember walking into my supervisor's office and looking him very squarely in the face and I said, "I don't think I'm very good at this." And he said, "No, you are not." And I said, "Okay, so what do you think I should do?" He said, "You have to get pretty good at this teaching thing over the next 10 to 20 years before you get to do anything really fun. So figure out how to get better at that or figure out how to do something else." Six weeks later, after I put a master's thesis under his door, I was out into the real world. And that's where I actually started my very first business which was an online tutoring company. And I grew that to dozens of tutors throughout North America and Europe, but I ended up actually really working for the business. I was working 18-hour days. I remember actually chipping one of my teeth. When I went to the dentist to be able to check the tooth, you sat down, you've got the big white light, the chair that goes back, and the dentist gasped. And it's never a good idea when a health professional gasps when they look at you. He said, "Liam, which tooth are you talking about? You've chipped almost all of your teeth." He felt that I had pancreatic cancer because I had had X-rays the year before in which my teeth were perfect. And it was from stress. I was grinding my teeth at night, and grinding them into chalk. So he said, "Figure out how to do this remote work thing better, figure out how to do a business better." And that's where I really started to unlock the secrets of remote work. I've now grown multiple businesses to eight figure run rates and beyond. We have team members in 44 different countries all over the world. And I'm really excited about our mission statement, which is empowering the world's transition towards remote work. Everything that we do feeds into that. Andi Simon: That is just fascinating. But I also remember teaching my first class at Queens College. I had 300 students in the room. And when I was done, my professor came up to me, Dr. Silverman said to me, "You'll do." And I wasn't quite sure what that meant other than spend 10 years as an academic and get my tenure. And I had really rave reviews, except for an occasional non-rave. But then I too left to get into business. I wasn't going to do the same thing in academia for the rest of my life, the idea of being tenured was a very high mark to achieve and then something that I didn't want to pursue. And business has been quite fascinating in terms of change. When you did this, it was early in the remote world, you could see opportunities there. And I'm curious, because as you began to build the companies around this, you learned some things that became really quite a passion of yours, and really probably the substance of your book. So before we get into your book, some of the insights that came from that early business and the remote work workplace. Liam Martin: So for me, I'm always really good at figuring out trends that are moving up into the light. The problem for me, however, is, I don't know how fast they're moving. So are we talking about the market expanding at 2% per year, 10% per year, just to kind of give you context. In February of 2020, 4% of the US workforce was working remotely. By March, 45% of the US workforce was working remotely. That's the biggest transition in work since the industrial revolution. But the industrial revolution took 80 years. And we did that in March. So a complete change of everything that we know as it applies to work. Just a month ago, the US Census actually collected a new data set with regards to remote work, and identified that 7% of the US workforce is currently working remotely. But if you include hybrid work, it's 32% of the US workforce, and less than 10% of that workforce is working remotely due to the pandemic. So over 90% are working, because they want to be able to work from home. So we're at a really interesting transition phase where a lot of people are being pushed back to the office, they're being pushed back to these hybrid work agreements, even though they don't really want to be able to do them. And I think that that feeds into the core of the big problem that we had during the pandemic, which was that instead of actually adopting remote work, we simply recreated the office at home. Andi Simon: Well, yes, we did. Because when in doubt, you know, mimic. Humans are great monkeys. And we knew what we knew. But we were very attached to it. But we may not even have liked it. And now we had something new that we had no idea about, there were no models. So we had to figure out something. There are a couple of problems that have developed. One of which is the worker at home having to navigate. I had my own clients who were trying to navigate family and work and their own self-care. You had your managers who were trying to figure out how to make sure the work got done. And they were also trying to figure out how to evaluate how the work got done and if it got done well. One gentleman said to me, "I used to go out and have coffee with my folks and I learned what they were doing. I don't know how to do that now." And I asked him, "That's the basis on which you evaluated?" And he said, "Yeah, that was pretty much how I evaluated them." I said, "Well, one wonders whether that was good, or now it's bad." So you had the managers and you had the important performance evaluation. And they were working with a group and they are lonely, but they don't want to come back to the office. And so how do you develop a community of remote workers? And how do you do it in such a way as they can begin to develop the trust they need to know who to go to for what kind of problems? So I have a hunch. These are issues that you saw happening, and maybe even have some suggestions about. Can you take me through it any which way? How do you do it at home? How do you manage it? How do you evaluate it? Or how do you build a business? What do you see happening? Liam Martin: Yeah, there's a lot to unpack there. So you're actually addressing all of the problems that we saw when we were developing this book. The first one, which I think is the most important, is, How do you measure success inside of a remote-first organization. And one of the issues that I personally had to deal with because I've come from the remote work world, I've been doing remote work for almost 20 years, I've actually never worked inside of an office. I think, technically, the last time I worked inside of an office was when I got that horrible review, in grad school teaching a first year Sociology course. And the philosophy inside of remote-first organizations, it's the third tenant of what we identify in our book, is detailed metrics. So every single individual inside of our organization has a quantifiable, longitudinal metric that is actually collected by the platform, and not necessarily by the individual. And inside of that, we have a philosophy that we like to call radical transparency, where everyone gets access to that information. So when you join an asynchronous remote organization, you actually don't just get access to what you do or what your department does, but you get access to everything in the organization. The saying is, Can we give you the same informational advantage as the CEO of the company, which is sometimes very difficult for people that live in a synchronous 20th century MBA mindset to get their heads around. But what it does provide to you is, the measurement is actually the platform's responsibility, not the managers. So you have this clear third perspective, and the conversations that happen between managers and employees are, "Your numbers are not where they need to be, I need to be able to help you to get those numbers to where they need to be because I don't control those numbers, I don't control the judgment as to whether or not you succeed or not, these numbers are actually predefined. So we need to be able to work together to be able to get you to where you need to go,' which aligns you with the manager. So you, the manager, is not judging you. It's the platform that's judging you. But more importantly, actually, the manager is also being judged, and in the same way, because the manager is saying, "Well, all your direct reports," where the person above them would say, "All of these numbers don't necessarily seem to be working out and this other department is doing better than you. You might be the problem as the manager." So qualitative versus quantitative measures. Qualitative measures don't really exist inside of asynchronous teams. And we think that that is an advantage. Andi Simon: Now clarify something for our viewers: what does it mean to be asynchronous? I want to go back to your data as data-driven performance. But asynchronous means what? Liam Martin: So fundamentally, it just means building a business without interacting with people simultaneously, or what we call synchronously. But I can give you a good example that kind of alludes to this. I don't know how old you are, but I remember when, back in the day, I would have to watch Friends every Friday at 8:30pm because I knew that if I missed Friends, on Monday I wouldn't be in the conversations that everyone was having because in that episode, you got to find out what Chandler does this week. And sometimes I'd show up at 8:40 and I missed the first 10 minutes of Friends. So I'd have to take another six months before I could check out a rerun of that particular episode. That is synchronous communication at its core. Asynchronous communication and management is more like the Netflix model. So the information is available for you, documented in a digitized platform and it's available to every employee to consume when it's most advantageous to them to consume it, not on a timetable of the manager or the organization. So you as a worker can say, "Well, I don't really want to meet at 3pm to be able to do this meeting because I'm really in a good flow state right now and I'm completing a project, so I can watch the recording or I can read the minutes of that particular meeting at 8pm when it's most advantageous for me to be able to consume that information." It's a very, very small shift in the way that you think but it creates a massive increase in overall productivity by our data. And again, I looked at approximately three dozen companies that are asynchronous at this point and some of the most successful companies in the world, by the way, are asynchronous. WordPress is asynchronous, GitLab is asynchronous, Shopify is in part asynchronous. These are massive companies that run like 30-40% of the internet and they have no zoom calls. They have no phone calls. They all are autonomous nodes in the system because they know exactly what they need to achieve and they have the information available to them through the platform and in order to be able to actually achieve those particular goals. So we see in our data that the average organization is about 33% more productive. And we define productivity by the amount of hard problems that organizations can solve. One of the big philosophical frameworks inside of the book that's been passed around inside of the remote work community for years is a book called Deep Work by Cal Newport. And so we use that at scale. And we're finding that those organizations are 33% more efficient. They cost about 50% less than their on-premise counterparts. And they're generally going to be a lot more effective as we move forward. And if you're not doing this right now, this is probably why you've had difficulty in the past actually deploying remote work at scale. Andi Simon: Now go a little deeper here because as we talk about developing talent, we talk about humans needing autonomy. They need to be in control. They need to believe that it's fair, that there's a fairness lead there. They need to protect their status, they need some certainty. And then they need the mastery, and they need the relationships. That human brain, you don't make decisions based upon what we call score. Nobody needs their status protected. I need my certainty, my autonomy, my relationships and my fairness. As you're talking, I'm saying to myself, Well, this is really fascinating because asynchronous management businesses enable people who are able to become quite autonomous, master their jobs, get the kind of fairness that they require because it's not biased. It's based on the data. You do it or you don't and then they can begin to build the relationships. They need to get their work done, as opposed to the artificial meetings of the past, where you came together, even though there was nothing to discuss, no agenda or takeaways from it. You're smiling and been in too many of those. Liam Martin: I have a saying , which is, No agenda, no agenda. That's my mindset with regards to that kind of stuff. I mean, this is so difficult for people to get their minds around. And it was very, very difficult, by the way, for me to be able to, for the first time ever, be exposed to a synchronous environment in which I would sit around with eight other people in a room. And maybe two of those people would talk for 90 minutes, and then we would leave. And I would think to myself, "Why was I here? I could have written four blog posts or done two podcasts during that time. Why am I here? This could have been an email." Andi Simon: I was an executive at a hospital, I moved from banking to healthcare, and same thing. We would come to meetings, no agenda, no takeaways or work to be done. An FYI kind of meeting I guess. But coming from the outside, which never has straight meetings, and now, it was one of those, what am I supposed to do here? Why am I spending the time? And then I watch people selectively omit the meetings, which is a whole other strategy. But they're also talking about their behavior, and I can get the job done without being synchronous. I couldn't get it done with being an autonomous individual capable of doing this. So take me through your book a little bit. I love the asynchronous part. Other parts to it that your listeners here should know about that you want to make sure they share, because I have a hunch you want them to become remote workers. Liam Martin: Yeah, so really there's three core tenants of the book and it's very simple, because we've seen so many books come out about remote work. There's actually 27 coming out this quarter, based on what my publisher is telling me. And there's no book on asynchronous work. There's no book on asynchronous management, which is a real shame because I actually think it's the core of what all of these real pioneers were doing before the pandemic and this really was a bit of a kind of qualitative journey for me. Looking at all of these different companies and identifying where the trend lines were, I was trying to identify the signal. And then we talked about asynchronous work and I realized every single company that was successful was deploying what I call asynchronous management at scale. So there's three core fundamental pieces to it. There's deliberate over-communication, democratized workflows, and detailed metrics. So over-communication of information shouldn't be easy to understand, it should be impossible to misunderstand. That's a very small switch in your mindset. But an email is not just an introduction to an asynchronous meeting, an email is where the conversation should hopefully start and end. And the less of those forms of communication that you end up having, the clearer that you can be, the extra three minutes that you spend on an email or communicating in a project management tool, as an example, the more effective you're going to be, organizationally. The second one is democratized workflows. So process documentation is at the core of every single asynchronous organization. There is a really great quote from a company called GitLab, which is a $14 billion company. They spend less than 1% of the time communicating synchronously, but they have a $14 billion valuation and are growing incredibly quickly. And they have this saying, which is, We always respond with a link. So whenever someone asks a question inside of the organization, they respond with a link to a process document that answers their question. So they're removing the manager from being the way that people get answers. And they're training them to basically figure out that the platform is really their manager. Again, reinforcing autonomy, allowing individuals to say, "Well, here's where I go to get my information. It's actually in this documentation and I want to actively use it as much as humanly possible." And then the third one, that we had touched on before, is detailed metrics. Every single person inside of an asynchronous organization has a third party, longitudinal quantifiable metric that they do not self-populate, that is populated by the platform itself. And then that information is available to everyone. So everyone knows what everyone else is doing inside of the organization. And counterintuitively, you may think that this impacts autonomy, but in reality, actually, if it were me, I would much rather be managed and measured by a platform that's at its core egalitarian, as opposed to John that says, "Hey, you know what, I don't really like the way that Liam talks to me sometimes so therefore, I'm going to give him a low rating on my three sheets to review," that type of stuff. So between those three core tenants, you can actually build any level of asynchronous organization. And it's really exciting once you get there because then you can do things like, have your employees work wherever they want. So they don't necessarily need to be in a particular location, because you're not dependent upon synchronous communication. They don't have to be located in the same city. We have employees in 44 different countries across the planet. You can have employees that are from any location and are bringing in very different perspectives. We've had one funny week where I had a meeting with someone that was talking about debating their transition from male to female. And then the very next week, I had a discussion with someone who was thinking about having a second wife in their family because in the Middle East, this person was from the Middle East, and that was legal and encouraged in their particular country. And then this other person was transitioning. Where in any organization could you have those two same people interact? Well, you can have an organization in which you don't necessarily have to have that kind of cultural homogenization that you end up having in the vast majority of synchronous organizations. So it's a really exciting time. And I see this going back to another friend of mine, Darren Murph, who was head of remote at WordPress. He said, “This is really a Model T moment where we're really seeing a new way of operating a business.” And that's why I want to kind of get this out to as many people as possible. Andi Simon: How about decision making? As I'm listening to you, you're empowering your folks to make decisions? Or do you have a different asynchronous way of evaluating options or how do you manage expenditures, empowerment, risk taking, things like that. You know, some of my clients are always concerned about, "How much risk shall I take? How do I go up for approval? Where do I manage the dollars?" But as I'm listening to you, it sounds like we're going to empower our people to make those decisions, or how do they work? Liam Martin: Yeah, so I can give you one clear example, which can kind of allude to many more. We have this concept called Silent Meetings inside of our organizations, inside of all asynchronous organizations. And to get very tactical, we use a platform called Asana, which is a task and project management system. And every single week, we have a meeting where we post issues. So the issue might be, we would like to hire 10 more engineers to work on this particular issue. Here's the pros and cons. Here's what we think. Here's why we think we'll succeed. Here's the risks if we fail. And then we debate that issue asynchronously. So we start writing comments inside of that particular issue ticket. And sometimes these issues can go 40, 50, 100 comments long. They are incredibly intense, very rich pieces of information. And if we come to a conclusion, we take that conclusion, and we put it to the top of the ticket, and we clear the ticket. And if we have less than three issues in our agenda, the platform automatically cancels the synchronous meeting. So we do this meeting every week. And we have on average one meeting a month because we don't necessarily need to address all of those issues, all the issues that you think are going to make or break the business and completely change the trajectory of what you're doing as an organization. They don't need to be discussed synchronously the vast majority of the time, they can be discussed asynchronously, and can be just as successful. And the advantage is that, #1: there's documentation. So I can go back two years and I can figure out why did I make this decision in the business. I can look at the 78 comments and the debate. So there's no undocumented conversations inside of asynchronous organizations. The second big advantage, and I don't know if you've had this situation happen to you, but it happens to me all the time. It's very difficult for me to be able to communicate in the moment. I'm much better sitting down and thinking about things, getting the information and processing it in my own time. And when I look at a boardroom, I don't even need to hear what people are saying to figure out whose ideas are going to get adopted. First, it's usually the six foot tall white guy that looks like Captain America because, generally, that person has a charismatic advantage, what I like to call a charisma bias. So we have that person pitch those ideas. Is that person's idea better than anyone else's? Probably not. But can the packaging of that person sell everyone on that idea? Absolutely. So inside of asynchronous organizations, the wallflower like me that doesn't actually want to debate those issues in the moment, because I know I will lose, I don't have that type of skill set. I can communicate in asynchronous meetings and better ideas get adopted more often inside of asynchronous organizations. And over time, that is a killer formula for much higher levels of success inside of your organization. Andi Simon: It sounds like, in your organization, this is how you run the business. So the question is, how do you then develop, attract, retain, and develop your talent? Do they just love this way of working and learn it immediately? Because it's a different way from mine. I'm guessing they've acquired skills in high school and college, about how you get things done. And, you know, a feeder system needs to be created and may actually be you that creates it, but what would you do with employees to make them happy doing it this way? Liam Martin: So the first thing that I think you need to take a look at is, there's a core assumption in there that I think the majority of synchronous organizations take into consideration which we do not, which is the concept of culture. I mean, you're really just boiling it down to, How do we build culture inside of organizations. Asynchronous organizations are more focused on the work than the people. So inside of asynchronous organizations, we do not say that we own a position, we say that we currently operate a position. So I am not the CMO of the company. I currently operate the position of CMO of the company. And at any point I have the documentation in place to be able to completely delegate that responsibility if I want to. So I want to take the year off and write a book about remote work, which I did. I can, within days, delegate all that responsibility to my direct reports, and the organization continues on. But going back to the work concept, it entirely is focused on, Are people really passionate about the problem that you're trying to solve? Our mission as a company is, we're trying to empower the world's transition towards remote work that feeds into everything that we currently do as an organization. And our measurement for new people that are coming into the organization is, "Are you as passionate about that as us? Do you have a cult-like commitment to that particular mission? If you don't, don't work here. We'll find you a job somewhere else that's way better. And will probably pay you more, but we can't pay you as much. It's going to be more difficult. But at the end of the day, we're going to try to put a dent in the universe that I think you will be fundamentally proud of because you're so incredibly passionate about this particular subject." And that's what almost the majority of people miss is, it doesn't matter how qualified someone is, are they actually excited about what they're doing? Because if they're not excited about what they're doing, then you might as well not even start. So that's where we start. And as an example, we have an ENPS rating, which is an Employee Net Promoter Score, basically, how engaged employees are in the organization. The industry average is 36. And when I studied these asynchronous organizations, I found on average, they had a score of 72. So they're much more engaged. And the two major reasons that they give for why they like working there is autonomy and access to information. So having an open organization like that allows for people to be more autonomous, enjoy what they're doing. They're not necessarily interacting with coworkers as much because asynchronous organizations just by default don't do that. But there are different ways that we interact. Like one of the companies that I studied in the book is a company called Todoist, which is a task management app that has millions of users all over the world. And they play a kind of version of Dungeons and Dragons on their instant messaging platform. And as a group, they all have a little community and they say, Well, do we go left or we do we go right? And some of them are wizards and rogues and warriors, and they fight a fight. And they have this actually through text. So it's a really fun kind of experience. And they'll say, Hey, within the next 24 hours, everyone's got to log in. And you've got to make your decision as to what you do because we're going to be moving our party forward. And that's a very nerdy example. But that's just some of the ways that we interact asynchronously. Andi Simon: Liam, I'm enjoying our conversation and I'm also watching our time. And when is your book coming out? Liam Martin: The book is going to be out August 16. So dependent upon when this session comes out, it may be available. And if people want to go check it out, go to runningremotebook.com. And then you can obviously pick it up at Barnes and Noble. Amazon is probably the easiest place to be able to get it. Andi Simon: But we all do want to keep Barnes and Noble happy. But to your point, this is really cool if you do consulting? And do you help people create asynchronous organizations? Is that part of your toolkit as well? Liam Martin: No, because I don't have time to be able to do that. I have to stay an operator inside of the inside of remote work. But if you go to runningremotebook.com, I actually do have a network of consultants that I can refer you to if you're really interested in deploying asynchronous itself. Andi Simon: Because the last thing I like to do is raise expectations. This is really cool. And why would I like to do this with all of my remote workers? Can I take the opportunity and turn it into something better? And then they say, But how do you do this? And you know, you can't learn to play golf without a coach and some idea of how you hit the ball. And you gotta hit it 700 times before you hit it well, so there's lots to do between the lip and the top here. But this has been so fascinating. As you are wrapping up: two or three things you might like to leave the listeners with? They often remember the end even better than your beginning. And your beginning was wonderful. Liam Martin: Well, so I think first off, to your point: I'm not trying to build a million asynchronous organizations, I'm trying to get a million organizations to be 1% more asynchronous. So if you pick up this book and you're able to pick up two or three strategies to be able to remove one or two meetings from every single individual, that is going to be a net gain to the universe, in my opinion. So it's really important to be able to check out the book see what you think. The second point that I'll leave you with is: If you think that this is not going to be the norm moving forward, you are unfortunately not understanding how history works. We're at 30% of the US workforce working remotely. I believe that within the next five years, we're going to be back up to 50% of the US workforce working remotely in part. And this is a permanent civilizational shift. So you can either stick your head in the sand, and think that the old way is the way to be able to do it, going back to the horse and buggy concept, or you can jump onto those Model Ts and right into the future. So it's up to you. But I would highly suggest that if you think that this is a trend, or just kind of a speed bump in history, definitely pick up the book, because you need to be able to adapt for those changes. Andi Simon: Well, you know, the comment that this is the Model T for work is a very interesting metaphor. I'm sure you've read that Henry Ford invented the modern age. And now we have electronic vehicles, electric vehicles coming out, transforming the car from a combustible engine to basically a computer with a battery. And so there are lots of great transformations happening at this moment. And I think that work, and I love catalytic moments, which the pandemic did create a crisis and I preach, Don't waste a crisis, because you learned a lot. And I do a tremendous amount of virtual workshops and speaking engagements. And people say, "We want you to come." And I'm trying really hard to tell them that that's a waste of my time, and not probably more valuable for them. Because I'm not there to entertain you with my charismatic life. I mean, I'm there to inform you and educate you, perhaps with a little edutainment. But if we can do it remotely, it's really cool for me and for you. And it's cheaper for you too, and so I did 49 of them this year with great reviews. I have them starting to book up for next year. And I'm saying to myself, I don't really need to do it in person. It's a little asynchronous in a sense, but it's not too far for what you're talking about. That's a great transformation, we learned a lot. And boy, you can listen in and find yourself coming away transformed, like our listeners are going to be after listening to you. This has been such fun. Thank you for joining me today. I know you're doing a lot of podcasts. I hope this has been a fun one for you. Because part of it is really fun taking your ideas and sharing it. So you don't have to tell me if it was fun or not. You can just smile for our viewers. Liam Martin: It was actually very enjoyable. And thank you so much for having me. Andi Simon: Well, and thank you, both viewers and listeners for coming today. Now remember, my job is to help you see, feel and think in new ways so that you can do things better. My job is to get you off the brink so you can soar. And the times, they're changing, you often become stuck in the mud. You're the deer in the headlight, you stand still, you're attached to your shiny object. And until you see something new, you don't know how to change. And that's because your body protects you from the unfamiliar or the unknown. And so today, we've been hearing a lot about the changing nature of work. It's happened. And now you can sustain it, but also turn it into a better way to do business, because quite frankly, your customers are looking to do it as well. And it's not just inside, but it's outside, which is what we love to do. My books are available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business has been doing really well and won an award for the 2022 best business book for women in business. And my On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights has been hustling along. They're showing you how a little anthropology can help your business grow. And remember my job is to help you change. You hate change but the times are changing. So come along and let's have some fun. You can reach me of course at info@Andisimon.com or info@Simonassociates.net and our new Simon Associates website is out, which is www.simonassociates.net. Come take a look and see what you can learn about how to change. Bye for now. And thank you again for coming. Bye-bye.

Today on the podcast Mitko (@mitkoka) is joined by not 1 but 2 experts in remote work - Chase Warrington (@dcwarrington), the Head of Remote at Doist, and frequent guest of this podcast Darren Murph (@darrenmurph), the Head of Remote at GitLab who you may remember from episode 160.After the last time Mitko spoke with Darren, he realized they still had a lot more to discuss, and to make the conversation even better they brought Chase on to add his expertise and viewpoint to our discussion. During this conversation, they discussed why “recreating the water cooler” at a remote company may be overhyped, Malcolm Gladwell's recent negative comments on remote work and what he's getting wrong, what the next frontiers of remote work are, and much much more. If you are a remote worker or lead a remote team, this is a must-listen episode!

Today on the podcast Mitko (@mitkoka) is joined by Darren Murph (@darrenmurph) the Head of Remote at GitLab. Darren is the original Head of Remote helping to create the position at GitLab and was instrumental in the creation of their now legendary remote work structureDuring this interview, Darren discussed how being the most prolific blogger in the world (something he holds a Guinness World Record for) helped him become the Head of Remote at GitLab, how young professionals who have only worked remotely can grow in their careers, and why remote work is only the first domino of a much larger societal shift.

Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab and author of Living the Remote Dream, joins host Matt Toback to discuss all the advantages of adopting a remote work culture and, in turn, creating a more positive, results-only environment. "There shouldn't be a focus on availability and visibility," says Darren. "The idea is that we focus on the results. We care a lot less about how you get there, or the clothes you wear while you're doing it, or at what time of the day or week you accomplish it." Luckily, they also won't care if you take time to listen to this episode and learn more about the personal benefits of remote work and how you can advocate for this shift in your workplace. Added bonus: Instead of all those "This-could've-been-an-email" meetings, your in-person gatherings will quickly become more productive and meaningful. 

Dave is joined by Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab, a DevOps company and first all-remote organization to go public. Darren explains that his role sits at the nexus of people operations and strategic communications, but that it's such a new concept, it actually exists in different departments from company to company. CNBC has called Darren “the oracle of remote work” and we learn some of his predictions for the "future of work" such as "meeting hygiene," a focus on asynchronous work, and, of course, increased remote work. Darren is truly an expert in organizational design and shaping remote teams. You will truly take away actionable plans and thought provoking perspectives from this episode. As Darren says, the most dangerous words of business are, "we've always done it that way...”

Episode Summary:  Darren Murph is an organisational architect who specialises in and knows what works – and what doesn't. Based on 15 years at GitLab, most recently as Head of Remote, he has all kinds of concrete advice for organisations trying to figure out the correct configuration for their individually distributed workplace models.   Some C-suiters are reluctant to abandon old office-based operations, emphasizing proximity over business results. But looking ahead at the role and impacts of organisational design, Darren believes the forward-thinking, progressive leaders (and ultimately the most successful enterprises) will embrace flexibility, learning and a healthy redefinition of what it means to … build better cultures.  You can check out GitLab's playbook, filled with information about all things remote, here.   If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider clicking here to rate, review and follow it!    Key Takeaways:  GitLab was founded as an all-remote company and today has 1,500 team members in more than 67+ countries with no brick-and-mortar offices.    What to keep in mind when getting started with a remote work design:    Shift your mindset from where people work to how people work.    Actively implement programs that combat proximity bias. Leadership can communicate that there is no advantage in working at the office by themselves working from home.    Audit workflows across your organisation and ask: Will this work if everyone is distributed, or do they need to be in an office? Then build out a changelog based on those jobs that require an office and reconceive them.    Making remote work viable across the enterprise builds resiliency.    All-remote or all co-located workplace environments are the easiest to administer because the playing field is even. Hybrid, by contrast, can quickly devolve into the worst of all scenarios with proximity bias and jockeying.    The easiest way to hedge against proximity bias is to keep senior leaders outside the office by default. Remote work is a top-down proposition and requires conviction.    Agility is key, and the ability to test, learn, and iterate. People and operations can be modulated based on proactive experimentation.    Darren references research compiled by the workplace communications platform Slack that reveals interesting insights into the impacts on middle management of the overnight adoption of remote work and the current lack of response on the part of leadership.    Writers Take Note: The most important thing a company can do is ensure that all employees have strong written communication skills. Effective storytelling will be far more influential in remote environments that don't rely on or reward charisma and talk. Scott recommends some related reading from a previous guest, John Simmons, author of "We, Me, Them and It."    On Diversity: Hire a diverse group of recruiters, watch your staffing demographic shift, and broaden by extension.    Parting thoughts for leaders at companies of all sizes:  Build the right workplace culture and ethics into your business model.  Fully embrace a people-first orientation that recognizes the power of uplifting employees with empathy and flexibility.  Take advantage of the journey and opportunity to get honest, embracing the importance of values fit – not just a culture fit.  About Darren:  Named an “oracle of remote work” by CNBC, Darren serves as GitLab's Head of Remote. He is a visionary in organisational design, leading at the intersection of people, culture, operations, inclusivity, marketing, employer branding and communication.  Contact/Follow Darren:  About Darren/GitLab  @LinkedIn  @Twitter  About Scott: Learn more about Scott McInnes, your host and the Founder and Director of Inspiring Change, by clicking here. About Workvivo: If you're struggling with communications in this time of new hybrid workplace conditions, click here to explore Workvivo, a collaboration platform that offers seamless digital integration. 

Welcome to the Workology Podcast, a podcast for the disruptive workplace leader. Join host Jessica Miller-Merrell, founder of Workology.com, as she sits down and gets to the bottom of trends, tools, and case studies for the business leader, HR, and recruiting professional who is tired of the status quo. Now here’s Jessica with this episode […] The post Episode 348: Building the Future of Work Remotely With Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab appeared first on Workology.

Darren Murph, Head of Remote at Gitlab, is our special guest on this episode where we evaluate the positives, challenges, and future of remote work. What is the role of remote in promoting positive team culture? How do we achieve success in a remote environment? Join the conversation by tweeting us @getperks_io. Resources: Gitlab, “Parenting as a remote worker” Gitlab Playbook: Allremote.info Inside CHRO, “Intentionality in action: Transforming the management of remote teams“

Sabine Ehm, MCR, Locatee, speaks to Darren Murph, who is the Head of Remote at GitLab. Listen in as they talk about the importance of intentionality in building remote or hybrid work, how to sustain company culture in a fully remote environment, and what you can find in the GitLab “Remote Playbook”.

In this week's Immigration Law for Tech Startups podcast, I'm joined by Jen Holmstrom, the Associate Partner and Head of Platform Services at GGV Capital. With leaders and founders now having access to global talent, Jen believes we now live in the future of work and that companies need to be intentional in the kind of environment they provide to employees.   Based in Silicon Valley, Singapore, and China, GGV Capital is a VC firm and a $9.2-billion fund that invests across multiple sectors. In her role, Jen leads the talent and recruiting support for portfolio companies of the fund. She has also created an amazing leadership program called Founders + Leaders. Today, she talks about its curriculum and how she helps early-stage startup founders and companies from around the world create rapidly scaling, high-value startups across a number of verticals.    Please share this episode with companies, HR and recruiting professionals, startup founders, international talent, or anyone who can benefit from it. Sign up for the Alcorn monthly newsletter to receive the latest immigration news and issues. Reach out to us if we can help you determine the best immigration options for yourself, your company, your employees or prospective employees, or your family whether in the U.S. or abroad. In this episode, you'll hear about: Creating a platform team The impact of the Great Resignation on immigration The frustration around compensation Creating an environment employees want to work in – physically and virtually Looking to intrinsic motivation for retention Leadership management best practices  Psychological contract vs. psychological safety    Don't miss my upcoming conversations with top Silicon Valley venture capitalists, startup founders, professors, futurists, and thought leaders on Immigration Law for Tech Startups. Subscribe to this podcast here or on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or whatever your favorite platform is. As always, we welcome your rating and review of this podcast. We appreciate your feedback!   Resources: GGV Capital  https://www.ggvc.com/ Founders + Leaders https://www.ggvc.com/for-founders/    Books: First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham https://www.amazon.com/First-Break-All-Rules-Differently/dp/1531865208    The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson https://www.amazon.com/One-Minute-Manager-Kenneth-Blanchard/dp/0425093980    Living the Remote Dream by Darren Murph https://www.amazon.com/Living-Remote-Dream-Setting-Advancing/dp/1506192130   Redefining HR by Lars Schmidt https://www.amazon.com/Redefining-HR-Transforming-Business-Performance/dp/1789667046 Alcorn Immigration Law: Subscribe to the monthly Alcorn newsletter   Immigration Law for Tech Startups podcast: Episode 16: E-2 Visa for Founders and Employees Episode 40: Due Diligence and Founder Immigration for VCs Episode 41: Investing in Immigrant Entrepreneurs with VC Carmen Pallafox   Immigration Options for Talent, Investors, and Founders Immigration Law for Tech Startups eBook Extraordinary Ability Bootcamp course for best practices for securing the O-1A visa, EB-1A green card, or the EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) green card—the top options for startup founders. Use promotion code ILTS for 20% off the enrollment fee.

On this very special best of 2021 mash-up, you'll get insights from guests throughout our episodes from last year. In Part 2 you'll hear from the following guests: MPL Group Chat (episode 36) on this being HR's time to step up and how we're entering the age of HR (0:37). Steve Cadigan, former CHRO of LinkedIn and author (episode 38), on how workers and companies can see less of the future than ever before, and why the competitive advantage moving forward will be the ability to deal with instability (6:57). Dom Boon, VP of Talent & Organizational Development at Liberty Latin America (episode 43), on how they identified the habits of the top 10% of their managers (16:48). Shelby Wolpa, former VP of People Operations at InVision (episode 45), on lessons learned from scaling the people function at 4 venture-backed companies and the foundational steps for setting yourself up for success in a remote-first environment (22:23). Darren Murph, Head of Remote at Gitlab (episode 49), shares why you need to look at the future of work as an opportunity to build something new – and how you have a permission slip to reinvent how your team looks and works (29:03). If you have any feedback for the MPL podcast or would like to connect, don't hesitate to reach out on LinkedIn: Daniel Huerta and Stephen Huerta

Darren Murph is the Head of Remote at GitLab. We talked about the importance of intentionality in building remote or hybrid work, how to sustain company culture in a fully remote environment and what you can find in the GitLab “Remote Playbook”.

Sam Corcos, CEO of Levels, sat down with Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab Inc. to discuss their take on building and scaling remote teams. Become a Levels Member – levelshealth.com Learn about Metabolic Health – levelshealth.com/blog Follow Levels on Social – @Levels on Instagram and Twitter

Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about what a Head of Remote does, investing in document infrastructure, building culture outside of company walls, and how to shift from a fear and scarcity mindset to a mindset of opportunity. Timestamps: What a Head of Remote does on a daily basis (6:20), change without story feels like a mandate, change with a purpose feels like vision (9:44), shifting from a fear and scarcity mindset to a mindset of opportunity (12:00), you can learn something from everyone (13:07), the two biggest challenges scaling culture fully remote (16:55), investing in document infrastructure (20:46), COVID has given every leader a permission slip to try new things (30:54), hybrid or shybrid? (32:59), providing examples for building new lifestyles around work (35:26), community impact outings are good alternatives to zoom happy hours (38:37), culture is the barometer for how well values are adhered to and reinforced (42:20), the future of work is going to be asynchronous (45:10), and have you looked at your purpose portfolio lately (51:50). Here's a link to GitLab's handbook: Informal Communication in an all-remote environment If you have any feedback for the MPL podcast or would like to connect, don't hesitate to reach out on LinkedIn: Daniel Huerta and Stephen Huerta

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen discovers from Gitlab's Darren Murph how remote work can work. As GitLab's Director of Remote Work, Darren is “the voice in the room” that evangelizes the trailblazing company's distributed workforce operating model. What is more, Darren authored The GitLab Remote Work Playbook, which thousands of people around the globe have downloaded. As 2021 concludes, positive forces of workplace change mean that people can live and work wherever they please. And as such, Gitlab supports happier professionals who enjoy doing work that is part of the day and not the day. A 100 percent distributed workforce is central to GitLab's success. Full podcast interview starts at 2:59 In this episode, Darren describes: His role at Gitlab. Starts at 4:52 Why GitLab is a 100 percent distributed workforce. Starts at 6:53 How he and the company found each other and his role materialized. Starts at 8:32 Opportunities and challenges inherent in framing a value proposition for recruited talent. Starts at 9:54 The revolutionary aspects of living and working anywhere. Starts at 16:28 Reengineering relocation to places where people want to live and work. Starts at 29:10 The localistic benefits to livable communities unleashed by Gitlab's operating model. Starts at 32:59 Amazing outcomes happen when you allow talent to determine where they live and work. Of that, Darren adds: “For hundreds of years, we have fit life around the rigid confines of work. But, when you achieve remote work at scale, you can live your life and then fit work into it.” Full podcast interview starts at 2:59 During 2021, Gitlab became a publicly traded company, tracked under the ticker symbol GTLB. About our guest: Quite possibly, Darren Murph is the world's first Director of Remote Work. He received a Bachelor of Science in Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management from NC State and an MBA from Campbell University. He lives and works in North Carolina. EPISODE DATE: December 17, 2021 Social media: – Darren Murph on LinkedIn – Darren Murph on Twitter – Living the Remote Dream (Amazon.com book page) – GitLab Website – The GitLab Remote Playbook Please Subscribe to The Dan Smolen Podcast on: – Apple Podcast – Android – Google Podcasts – Pandora – Spotify – Stitcher – TuneIn …or wherever you get your podcasts. You may also click HERE to receive our podcast episodes by email. Image credits: Worker by the shore, timetraveler for iStockPhoto; Portrait, Darren Murph; Podcast button, J. Brandt Studio for The Dan Smolen Experience.

Season III is getting started with the top companies who have drawn the best remote-first practices. Gitlab famously opened their Handbook at the most important time when everyone needed to learn all about remote work. They also gave birth to a new role : Head of Remote which has been trending in organisations wanting to succeed in their transition to a remote-first company. This week I am discussing with Darren Murph about what it is to be a head of remote and if you need one in your own organisation to set the foundation work of a remote-first mindset. In this episode you will hear: Why gitlab opened their handbook Hybrid on paper sounds like the best of both world Why having a leader to implement and maintain a remote-first way of work is crucial How the open-source world influence the mindset of transparency needed in remote work In a remote-setting, there is no place for unspoken rules, everything needs to be written down Links: allremote.info - Remote Work Playbook Find Darren @darrenmurph on Linkedin and Twitter Reply with a link: What a head of remote should be Reach out! - You can reach out to the host Daphnée Laforest on Linkedin :) Leave a review, help us get discovered! - If you found value in this show, we'd love your review on your listening app of choice. It really helps to get the podcast discovered by more and more people. RateThisPodcast.com/remotefirst Our Partner: Remotive - Since 2014 Remotive.io is helping top distributed companies hire remote workers. Going remote has opened your company to the world. So going Remotive we'll channel your jobs to the best talents out there. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/remotefirst/message

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Rock star and remote oracle Darren Murph joins me. He serves as the Head of Remote—cool title—for Gitlab. We talk about organizational alignment, Slack, intentionality, the importance of documentation, software development, talent shows, and much more. Support the show

The COVID 19 pandemic has been the catalyst for considerable changes and upheaval in how businesses are run. As a result, many of us have had to adapt to the world of remote work practically overnight, with hardly any preparation. This is not the case for GitLab, which has been a remote company for over a decade. In fact, they were so advanced in their structuring of remote work, that countless companies were able to base the remote working protocol off of explicit documents provided by GitLab on how they run their company. In this episode, we are joined by the Head of Remote for GitLab, Darren Murph, who is the driving force behind these indispensable resources. Darren has written over 100 000 words on how GitLab runs remotely and holds the Guinness world record for 'most prolific professional blogger'. We meet up with Darren to discuss the recent surge in remote work, how crisis-induced remote work differs from a structured approach, and why he believes it's here to stay. Listening in, you'll hear Darren identify and break down some of the mistakes companies are making with remote work and how to address them, as well as plenty of tips and advice for how to facilitate collaboration and communication among employees. This is an information-packed episode on the future of remote work and why it's a fantastic opportunity for reinvention! Key Points From This Episode: Meet today's guest Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab. How the COVID 19 pandemic prompted a surge in remote work. How the GitLab Handbook and Darren's README provided countless companies with a blueprint for how to structure remote work. An introduction to GitLab, a DevOps platform for collaborating to create software. How GitLab approaches employee development from a remote setting. The difference between structured remote work versus the crisis-induced remote work caused by the COVID 19 pandemic. Darren breaks down key steps to transitioning to remote work. How GitLab facilitates communication between employees. How transparency of work helps remote workers feel much more connected. Why a remote manager's key role is to be an ‘unblocker' How GitLab approaches development tracks and developing tracks. Why it's important to employ a head of remote. Some of the problems that come with pursuing a hybrid model of remote and office work. How Darren suggests supporting employees who work better in the company of others. How to implement a values audit and how it can support a company's remote work structure. What it means to be a manager of one. Why Darren believes that current graduates are well prepared for remote work. How you should approach onboarding new staff as a remote company. The importance of writing and storytelling as a skill in remote work. The resources and tools that Darren is currently utilizing to better himself. GitLab Handbook Darren Murph's README Kona Almanac Leveling Up For more links, visit getmarlow.com/podcast

This week, Ryan tackles remote work with one of the world's foremost experts on the topic, Darren Murph. Darren is Head of Remote at GitLab, a DevOps platform that helps co-located, hybrid, and remote teams collaborate and build software. Darren shares lessons that GitLab has learned as a completely officeless company with more than 1,400 remote employees—including boundary-setting at the organizational level, balancing synchronous and asynchronous tools, and the benefits their people have enjoyed working remotely. For more insights on the future of work, visit hermanmiller.com/futureofwork.

DARREN MURPH is the Head of Remote at GitLab and the author of Living The Remote Dream,' GitLab's Remote Playbook, as well as ‘iPad Secrets' and ‘iPhone Secrets'. He is also has the Guinness World Record for most blog posts ever written! In this interview, we talk about how GitLab works as the world's largest all remote company, what the Head of Remote position entails, and what companies are getting wrong - and right - about hybrid working.

Today's guest is Chris Herd, the CEO and founder of Firstbase which is an all-in-one SaaS platform for the supply and management of assets and equipment to remote workers. After founding a remote financial technology company, Chris discovered the challenges of having a remote team which led him to found Firstbase. Since late 2019, the company has now raised over $15 million, a lot of which can be attributed to Chris's presence on Twitter. Today he explains how he managed to generate 80 million Twitter impressions in the space of a year and how he has used the platform as his primary acquisition channel, as well as a great tool for building relationships with key decision-makers at some of the biggest investment companies and venture capital firms in the world. Tuning in you'll hear Chris's advice on what type of content to share, the importance of consistency, the role of spontaneity, and how to inspire conversation through the platform. Chris also shares some profound insight into the future of remote work or ‘remote living'. Hear some practical advice on remote work that most people wouldn't know about and find out which companies are doing it really well. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:14] An introduction to today's guest Chris Herd, CEO and founder of Firstbase. [01:09] Some of Firstbase's marquee clients. [02:04] Chris's background and what makes him different from other founders. [02:59] How the challenges he faced having a remote team led him to found Firstbase. [03:59] How Firstbase is making money. [04:34] How quickly the company has grown and how much money it has raised. [05:20] Some of the core challenges they faced scaling the company. [06:13] The role of Twitter in building distribution. [07:54] How Chris achieved 80 million impressions through his tweets in the last year.  [08:54] Chris's advice on how to market your business through Twitter. [09:51] How Twitter has benefited Firstbase. [11:21] What Chris's cadence is like on Twitter and the role of spontaneity.  [12:28] The two most important data points to Chris and what they say about the future of work.  [14:25] The role of in-person connection in the remote work playbook post-pandemic. [15:51] How Chris is recruiting the best people right now through Twitter and Flocknet. [18:09] Practical remote work advice that most people wouldn't know about. [19:08] Companies that are doing remote work really well. [20:12] Remote work playbooks available online. [20:56] A business tool Chris's recommends: Figma. [21:38] Insight into the size of Chris's sales team and thoughts on whether or not they should be co-located. [22:47] Chris's must-read book: No Rules Rules. [23:35] The most compelling thing that he's watched, read or listened to: Loki. [23:55] How to get in contact with Chris.   Resources From The Interview:   Firstbase  Remotive AngelList  Flocknet  Zapier  GitLab    Darren Murph  Figma  Miro  Mural Must read book: No Rules Rules  Project Hail Mary  Loki   Chris Herd on Twitter   Chris Herd on LinkedIn   Leave Some Feedback:     What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review here Subscribe to Leveling Up on iTunes Get the non-iTunes RSS Feed     Connect with Eric Siu:      Growth Everywhere Single Grain Leveling Up Eric Siu on Twitter Eric Siu on Instagram    

In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guest Darren Murph, Head of Remote at Gitlab.Thanks to Gloat for supporting the show!Learn how leading enterprises are redesigning careers for a new world of work click in the description below to listen to an exclusive conversation with Josh Bersin and guests: http://bit.ly/get-involved-hrEpisode highlights00:00 - Intro02:28- About Darren's journey05:48- On pioneering the Head of Remote role06:44- What does a Head of Remote do?10:02- How to make remote sustainable19:59- Mistakes companies make in transition26:51- On REMOTE by Gitlab28:00- Parting advice

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A hybrid model mixing home working with office time is being favoured by major companies. But critics worry it will create divisions in the workplace. Small business owner and columnist Gene Marks explains why managing remote workers presents such a challenge, and Darren Murph from GitLab, a tech firm of 1,300 employees and no office, tells us why having a mix of home and office work could be the worst of both worlds. Economist Nicholas Bloom discusses the risk of discriminating between workers who choose to spend more or less time in the office, and remote working expert Kate Lister tells us why companies will have to offer flexible working to attract employees in the future. (Photo: A man works at home on his bed, Credit: Getty Images)

GitLab was early in the game in building a fully distributed work experience. In this episode, Darren shares insight into what guided GitLab's initial decision to be a fully distributed company, along with best practices around scaling your remote culture and experience. He discuss the importance of enabling asynchronous work, the value of in transparently sharing your philosophies, and the importance of discussing core values in your hiring process.

The clouds have parted and the remote gods have spoken. Meet my friend Darren Murph, Head of Remote for GitLab. A company that was awesome at remote before it became cool. Or, at the very least, before it was forced on us. 

In episode #42, Darren Murph shares how remote work empowers people at work, and also in their everyday lives. Darren Murph is the Head of Remote at Gitlab - a company that is famously known for being one of the largest all-remote companies in the world. Prior to Gitlab, Darren was the Managing Editor at Engadget and the Director of Global Communications at Dolby Laboratories. He also holds a Guinness World Record as the planet's most prolific professional blogger! In today’s episode, Darren offers an inside look at life at Gitlab, their core values, and what it means to be transparent by default. We also talk about the concept of hiring to fill your weak spots and how, as leaders, we can unblock our direct reports and empower them to do great things. Tune in to hear how you can improve your craft as a manager and take remote learning to a whole new level.

Do you have Zoom fatigue? What if you could cut your meetings down by 50%?Gitlab’s head of Remote, Darren Murph, believes time spent face-to-face is precious and should be reserved for informal communication and team bonding. So he’s created a four-step barrier to scheduling a meeting that means only the most important meetings make it onto his calendar. By preferencing documentation over meetings Murph has made his virtual meetings dramatically more effective. You can find the full interview here: GitLab’s Head of Remote, Darren Murph, on how to create corporate culture when no one works from the office CREDITSProduced by InventiumHost: Amantha ImberSound engineer: Martin ImberIf you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I am loving. You can sign up for that at http://howiwork.coVisit https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes from all episodes.Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.au See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Biura, które znamy - już nie istnieją. Pod tym hasłem dzisiejszy odcinek jest o tym, jakie 3 trwałe zmiany zachodzą w naszych życiach w związku z pracą zdalną. Mówię o tyranii biurka, wirtualnych pizza party i o rewolucji przemysłowej. Jest kilka ciekawych wyników badań, pojawia się też kwota 500 mld USD rocznych oszczędności dzięki pracy zdalnej, odniesienie do GitLabu i kilka cytatów z Darrena Murpha, pierwszego człowieka na pozycji Head of Remote. Wyszedł dosyć długi odcinek - zapraszam na 8 minut do posłuchania na podcastach i do obejrzenia na wideo lub do poczytania na WWW czy LinkedInie. Miłego weekendu #wykuwam #piotrekdobrarada #remoteonly #pracazdalna #gitlab Mój mail piotr.konopka@innothink.com.pl Mój LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/in/konopka Link do odcinka na YouTube https://youtu.be/FE7quBjA5jg Link do podcastu https://pod.fo/e/b2a9c SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/piotr-konopka-286414158/piotrek-dobra-rada-odc-195-3-zmiany-ktore-przyniesie-praca-zdalna Inspiracja https://www.fastcompany.com/90593744/the-office-as-we-know-it-is-over-and-thats-a-good-thing Moja strona internetowa https://piotr-konopka.pl Strona firmowa https://www.innothink.com.pl Moje podcasty https://podfollow.com/piotrek-dobra-rada/view iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/piotrek-dobra-rada/id1513135345 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6bu6ZEMBKJAd2LMLr7ABKP Transkrypcja poniżej Cześć. Nazywam się Piotrek Konopka i witam Was w kolejnym, 195 już odcinku z cyklu Piotrek Dobra Rada mówi o pracy zdalnej. Dzisiaj powiem o trzech zmianach, które zajdą właśnie w związku z pracą zdalną i mam nadzieję, że to będą dla nas wszystkich dobre zmiany. Przez tyle lat byliśmy przyzwyczajeni do tego, że mamy narzędzia, mamy zasady i najlepsze praktyki które są związane, z tym w jaki sposób pracujemy. Czyli dla niektórych z nas to były open-space, to były kubikle, to było generalnie biuro. Ale pandemia przyspieszyła zmianę do której przymierzaliśmy się tak naprawdę już od wielu lat. I wielu pracowników nagle, gdy zostało zamkniętych na siłę z powodu pandemii w domach, zdało sobie sprawę że bardziej wolą spotkania na Zoomie od tyranii biurka. I tak właśnie prawdopodobnie będzie wyglądała przyszłość - to znaczy biuro, które znamy już nie istnieje. Już się skończyło. I według mnie jest to dobra rzecz. Ponieważ nagle okazało się, że tak: Dojeżdżamy krócej do pracy, no bo właściwie mieszkamy w tym samym miejscu następuje komunikacja asynchroniczna, która to przyspiesza procesy zawodowe, która też pozwala przyspieszyć dostarczanie usług dla klientów produkujemy mniej zanieczyszczeń, ponieważ nie przemieszczamy się po naszych miastach te nasze miasta są bardziej przyjazne do życia I nagle okazuje się że świat, który może istnieć, jest światem: pracowników bardziej produktywnych i organizacji które są bardziej odporne i miejsc pracy które są bardziej równościowe Pamiętacie? Jakiś czas temu mówiłem na temat Gitlaba. Gitlab to firma, która od zawsze pracuje zdalnie. W tym momencie zatrudnia jakieś 1200 osób pracujących w 65 krajach. I oni zatrudnili 2 lata temu człowieka o imieniu Darren. Darren Murph jest to Head of Remote work Gitlabie. I to jest w ogóle pierwsza osoba na świecie, która takie stanowisko piastuje. Nowi pracownicy w Gitlabie dostawali taki podręcznik,taki manual gdzie były opisane najlepsze praktyki z każdego punktu widzenia - począwszy od botów na Slacku, przez jakieś dyskusje biznesowe ale też dyskusje prywatne, poprzez przykazania w jaki sposób najlepiej zrobić wirtualne pizza party. Nagle się okazuje, patrząc tak z historii, że aplikowanie tego modelu Gitlaba będzie nieuniknione właściwie dla większości. Ta firma tak naprawdę w tym momencie świadczy usługi doradcze dla Twittera, T-mobile i Sanofi, mówiące o tym w jaki sposób zmaksymalizować swoją pracę zdalną. Ale powiedziałem o tym, że ta praca zdalna przyniesie trzy zmiany. Będę mówił w odniesieniu do tego, co o tych zmianach wspominał Darren.

***BEST OF HOW I WORK***I'm currently taking a few weeks off, so today's episode is a Best Of episode. I've gone back through the archives of the last 2.5 years of hosting How I Work and picked out my absolute favourite episodes!My guest today is Darren Murph who is GitLab’s Head of Remote. If you have never heard of GitLab, it's the world’s largest all-remote company, with over 1,300 team members in 67+ countries with no company-owned offices. Darren has spent his career leading remote teams and charting remote transformations and authored GitLab’s Remote Playbook. Darren also holds a Guinness World Record as the planet's most prolific professional blogger, having published 10 million words.In this chat, we cover:How crisis-induced remote work is different from true remote workDarren’s favourite tips from Gitlab’s Remote Working handbookWhy companies need to change their default to asynchronous communicationHow to create a corporate culture in a remote working environmentThe importance that values play in company cultureHow to recruit for people who are suited to remote workThe key software that you need to make remote work, workHow to design for serendipitous moments when everyone works remoteHow to replace water cooler conversations in the remote environmentHow to have effective meetings - and more importantly - deciding when NOT to meetDarren’s one page operating manualDarren’s favourite gadgetsCompanies that he looks to for remote working inspiration.Connect with Darren on Linkedin and Twitter. Check out Darren’s personal operating manual, GitLab’s remote playbook, and Darren’s book Living the Remote Dream. Visit https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes from all episodes.Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.auIf you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I am loving. You can sign up for that at http://howiwork.co See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On Episode 4 of Remote Talks, GitLab's head of remote, Darren Murph, joins the show to discuss mental health, communication strategies, and what remote work will look like in 2021 and beyond.

Darren Murph works to unleash the remote workforce. As GitLab's Director of Remote Work, Darren is "the voice in the room" that evangelizes the trailblazing company's remote work operating model. What is more, he authored The GitLab Remote Work Playbook, which over 80,000 people around the globe have downloaded. As 2021 unfolds, positive forces of change will unleash the remote workforce. Those forces will enable millions of people to live and work wherever they please. And in doing so, they will support happier professionals who enjoy doing work that is part of the day and not the day. To unleash the remote workforce is central to GitLab's mission. In this episode, Darren describes: GitLab and his role as Director of Remote Work. Starts at 2:26 Why GitLab is a 100 percent distributed (remote) workforce. Starts at 4:27 How he and the company found each other and his role materialized. Starts at 6:07 Opportunities and challenges inherent in framing a remote work value proposition for recruited talent. Starts at 7:28 The revolutionary aspects of living and working anywhere. Starts at 14:02 Reengineering relocation to places where people want to live and work. Starts at 26:44 The localistic benefits of livable communities unleashed when remote work is encouraged. Starts at 30:34 Amazing outcomes happen when you unleash the remote workforce. Darren says: "For hundreds of years, we have fit life around the rigid confines of work. But, when you achieve remote work at scale, you can live your life and then fit work into it." About our guest: Quite possibly, Darren Murph is the world's first Director of Remote Work. He received a Bachelor of Science in Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management from NC State and an MBA from Campbell University. He lives and works remotely in North Carolina. EPISODE DATE: January 8, 2021 Social media: - Darren Murph on LinkedIn - Darren Murph on Twitter - Living the Remote Dream (Amazon.com book page) - GitLab Website - The GitLab Remote Playbook Please Subscribe to The Dan Smolen Podcast on: – Apple Podcast – Android – Google Podcasts – Pandora – Spotify – Stitcher – TuneIn …or wherever you get your podcasts. You may also click HERE to receive our podcast episodes by email. Image credits: Remote worker, Victoriia Hnatiuk for iStockPhoto; Portrait, Darren Murph; Podcast button, J. Brandt Studio for The Dan Smolen Experience.

We need to be able to prepare for the future of working for ourselves as well as our customers. In this weeks episode, James is joined by Head of Remote at Gitlab, Darren Murph. Gitlab are a fully remote company with over 1200 employees. We discussed what Gitlab do and have done for a number of years to really embrace work from anywhere and the impact it has had on their productivity. CNBC called Darren an oracle of remote working, and we can see why. Enjoy! Want to find out more about The Recruitment Network? Visit therecruitmentnetwork.com

What does the future look like when we have the option to return to the office or remain remote? Which decisions have helped teams, and which changes have thrown communications into disarray? And what mindset shifts are required from leadership? Join GitLab's Head of Remote, Darren Murph, as he sits down with Savvy Millenial founder Savannah Peterson to discuss the next phase of work and how society will benefit from widespread flexibility.

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EVENT ALERT: The Remote Startup Expo 3.0 (on Wednesday 14th October from 10 am Pacific Time) is possibly one of the largest dedicated remote business events of 2020. But you need to register asap so that you don't miss out on this opportunity to listen and network with leading Founders, Leaders and Remote Execs. Your host and event Founder is Joe Blair of Cota Capital and Distributed Valley And with a who's who of the tech and remote world you can expect to hear from guests including Matt Mullenweg (Automattic), Jennifer Christie (Twitter), Gene Farrell (Smartsheet) and execs from the likes of Slack, Zoom, Salesforce ... and GitLab Inc. (Darren Murph), Airtable, Yac, Grain, Wonderschool, KUDO, Screencastify and many many more. Register on Distributed Valley website https://www.distributedvalley.co/ Listen to Joe Blair's Podcast  https://www.epichumanpod.com/  Connect With Alex From Remote Work Life ✅Join the Facebook community  ✅On LinkedIn ✅On Instagram ✅On YouTube

Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, more people than ever before are working at home. For many it's been a painful shift. But good news: there are ways to do it better! Fortune's Michal Lev-Ram and Brian O'Keefe explore how companies and managers can ease the pain in this debut episode of The Brainstorm Podcast. They are joined by some true remote work experts: Zoom COO Aparna Bawa and Gitlab's Head of Remote, Darren Murph. Members of Fortune's tech team also have insight to add.

My guest today is Darren Murph who is GitLab’s Head of Remote. If you have never heard of GitLab, it's the world’s largest all-remote company, with over 1,300 team members in 67+ countries with no company-owned offices. Darren has spent his career leading remote teams and charting remote transformations and authored GitLab’s Remote Playbook. Darren also holds a Guinness World Record as the planet's most prolific professional blogger, having published 10 million words.In this chat, we cover:How crisis-induced remote work is different from true remote workDarren’s favourite tips from Gitlab’s Remote Working handbookWhy companies need to change their default to asynchronous communicationHow to create a corporate culture in a remote working environmentThe importance that values play in company cultureHow to recruit for people who are suited to remote workThe key software that you need to make remote work, workHow to design for serendipitous moments when everyone works remoteHow to replace water cooler conversations in the remote environmentHow to have effective meetings - and more importantly - deciding when NOT to meetDarren’s one page operating manualDarren’s favourite gadgetsCompanies that he looks to for remote working inspiration.Connect with Darren on Linkedin and Twitter. Check out Darren’s personal operating manual, GitLab’s remote playbook, and Darren’s book Living the Remote Dream. Visit https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes from all episodes.Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.auIf you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I am loving. You can sign up for that at http://howiwork.co See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dzisiaj krótkie podsumowanie tematu stanowiska Head of Remote Work. Kto był pierwszy (Darren Murph), jakie duże korpo pierwsze rozpisało rekrutację na to stanowisko (Facebook) i jakie powinny być działania takiej osoby (cel, strategia, analiza i wdrożenie...). czy w polsce pojawiają się takie osoby? Dajcie znać w komentarzach #wykuwam #piotrekdobrarada #remoteonly #pracazdalna #headofremote Mój mail piotr.konopka@innothink.com.pl Mój LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/in/konopka Link do odcinka na YouTube https://youtu.be/Nhg0YpcERRg Moja strona internetowa https://piotr-konopka.pl Strona firmowa https://www.innothink.com.pl Moje podcasty https://podfollow.com/piotrek-dobra-rada/view Link do podcastu https://pod.fo/e/9c10f SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/piotr-konopka-286414158/piotrek-dobra-rada-odc-122-podsumowanie-head-of-remote-work iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/piotrek-dobra-rada/id1513135345 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6bu6ZEMBKJAd2LMLr7ABKP Transkrypcja poniżej Cześć. Nazywam się Piotrek Konopka i witam Was w kolejnym, 122 już odcinku z cyklu Piotrek Dobra Rada mówi o pracy zdalnej. Dzisiaj podsumuję to, czego mogliśmy się dowiedzieć na temat stanowiska Head of Remote Work. Pierwszym człowiekiem, który ma stanowisko Head of Remote Work jest Darren Murph z firmy Gitlab, który pełni to stanowisko od wakacji 2019 roku. Darren odpowiada między innymi za logistykę pracowników, za komunikację między nimi, za coachowanie - tak, żeby te procesy przebiegały sprawnie. Natomiast tak naprawdę erę stanowisk związanych z zarządzaniem procesami w pracy zdalnej można mierzyć od chwili, gdy Facebook opublikował ogłoszenie rekrutacyjne, że poszukuje osoby na stanowisko Director, Remote Work, celem przeprowadzenia Facebooka, jako całej organizacji, z pracy stacjonarnej do pracy zdalnej. Ta osoba będzie miała za zadanie z jednej strony stworzyć cały zespół, jak i później w ciągu następnych kilku lat przeprowadzić 48000 pracowników całej firmy tak, żeby wszyscy nigdy nie do tęsknili już do pracy stacjonarnej. Co taka osoba, która pełni stanowisko Head of Remote Work, co taka osoba powinna robić? Przede wszystkim powinna ocenić stan istniejący dzisiaj. Powinna równocześnie mieć odpowiednią pozycję, żeby ustalić cel długofalowy, czyli jak nasza organizacja pracująca zdalnie powinna wyglądać na przykład za 2-3-5, może za 10 lat. I powinna opracować harmonogram przejścia z etapu dzisiaj do etapu na przykład za lat 10. Należy przeanalizować wszystkie stanowiska pracy z punktu widzenia job description, tak, żeby zastanowić się, czy dane zadanie może być wykonywane w stu procentach zdalnie. Należy przeanalizować wszystkie procesy, które istnieją w firmie, od najprostszych typu podpisanie listy obecności, po te, które są na przykład, najbardziej masowe: wystawianie faktur, kontakty z klientami czy na przykład rekrutacja, podpisywanie umów bądź rozwiązywanie umów z pracownikami. W momencie, gdy Head of Remote Work będzie na odpowiednim poziomie umocowany, czyli na przykład będzie członkiem zarządu, któremu będą podlegały różne departamenty, to wtedy taki proces ma szansę dużą na realizację. W innym wypadku będzie to proces, który będzie trwał miesiącami, a być może nie przyniesie pożądanych rezultatów.

Rok temu Darren Murph został Head of Remote w GitLabie. Niedawno Facebook rozpoczął rekrutację na stanowisko Director, Remote Work. Potem przyszła Okta, Quora, itp. Czym takie osoby się zajmują? Czy to jest trwały trend? Czy takie stanowiska zostaną z nami na dłużej? Pojawia się wypowiedź Aly Rail, VP ze Slacka, odnośnie trwałości trendu - z którą nie zgadzam się. Więcej w 120 odcinku Piotrka Dobrej Rady #wykuwam #piotrekdobrarada #remoteonly #pracazdalna #headofremote Mój mail piotr.konopka@innothink.com.pl Mój LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/in/konopka Link do odcinka na YouTube https://youtu.be/7XKLDIupn0w Moja strona internetowa https://piotr-konopka.pl Strona firmowa https://www.innothink.com.pl Moje podcasty https://podfollow.com/piotrek-dobra-rada/view Link do podcastu https://pod.fo/e/820eb Inspiracja https://terminal.io/blog/how-to-hire-a-head-of-remote Inspiracja https://workew.com/job/head-of-remote-quora/ inspiracja https://fortune.com/2020/05/28/coronavirus-head-of-remote-work-from-home-gitlab-github-jobs/ Inspiracja https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/09/head-of-remote-work-jobs/ SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/piotr-konopka-286414158/piotrek-dobra-rada-odc-120-head-of-remote-work iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/piotrek-dobra-rada/id1513135345 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6bu6ZEMBKJAd2LMLr7ABKP Transkrypcja poniżej Cześć. Nazywam się Piotrek Konopka i witam Was w kolejnym, 120 już odcinku z cyklu Piotrek Dobra Rada mówi o pracy zdalnej. Dzisiaj powiem kilka słów na temat tego, jakie nowe stanowisko może się pojawić na szczeblu C-level we wszystkich właściwie organizacjach W 2019 roku, w wakacje, Darren Murph rozpoczął pracę w GitLabie, na stanowisku Head of Remote. Czym zajmuje się Darren w tej firmie? Przypomnę, że GitLab jest to taka firma, działająca od 2011 roku, która zatrudnia ponad 1000 pracowników na całym świecie i większości pracują oni zdalnie, właściwie od samego początku. Darren, jako Head of Remote, czyli szef pracy zdalnej, odpowiada za takie działania, jak na przykład: relokacja pracowników. Co prawda do tej pory to była raczej kwestia związana z okolicami San Francisco (bo GitLab jest zlokalizowany w San Francisco) natomiast od niedawna wszyscy pracownicy, którzy jeszcze w okolicach San Francisco gdzieś się znajdowali, to tak naprawdę Darren pomaga im znaleźć miejsce do życia i do pracy na terenie całych Stanów Zjednoczonych, a być może i całego świata jest takim Executive Coachem dla menedżerów wyższego i średniego szczebla, żeby ci ludzie umieli zarządzać zdalnymi zespołami. jest trochę doradcą technologicznym - tak naprawdę do jego zadań należy ocenianie czy Zoom czy Teams czy Skype? Bądź być może warto zaangażować oprogramowanie o nazwie Loom? I tak dalej, i tak dalej. to jest w jego gestii Jest profesjonalistą w zakresie komunikacji - to znaczy tłumaczy jednym ludziom, co drudzy mieli na myśli. A tak naprawdę uczy wszystkich ludzi komunikować się tak, żeby ta komunikacja przebiegała w sposób bezproblemowy, zwłaszcza, jeżeli pracuje się w modelu zdalnym. No i oczywiście jest event plannerem - czyli pomaga organizować zdalne wydarzenia, tak, żeby pomimo odległości pomiędzy pracownikami, żeby ci ludzie mogli sobie tworzyć kulturę organizacyjną, żeby mogli się integrować i poznawać się bliżej. A nie, żeby tylko byli avatarami gdzieś na Slacku czy na innym Zoomie. Ale dlaczego mówię akurat o Darrenie? Ponieważ niedawno Facebook opublikował ogłoszenie o pracę - że poszukuje takiego człowieka - to stanowisko zostało zatytułowane “Director, Remote work”. I ta osoba ma być odpowiedzialna za przeprowadzenie szerokiej zmiany w firmie tak, żeby ludzie, którzy pracują czy pracowali do niedawna stacjonarnie, postawili na pierwszym miejscu umiejętność pracy zdalnej.

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In this episode, Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab, gives advice on how to transition from a “traditional” to a remote company in the current crisis. Whether you are new to remote work, or a seasoned veteran wanting things to run more smoothly, this episode is tremendously valuable for everyone wanting to make remote life more pleasant.Darren offers insights into common pitfalls, what mistakes to focus on, and which aspects of remote work are often wrongfully made a priority. More about Darren:About GitLabTwitter

Welcome to The Remote Series, where CEOs of remote-first companies share guidance on how to lead an organization when everyone's working from home. The Remote Series is hosted by Alex MacCaw, CEO at Clearbit, and coach Matt Mochary, author of The Great CEO Within.In Episode 1 of The Remote Series, Matt and Alex sit down with GitLab's co-founder and CEO Sid Sijbrandij, as well as Darren Murph, GitLab's Head of Remote. They chat about remote team bonding, collaboration, and the challenges companies will face if they reopen offices and go hybrid-remote. Love it or hate it, remote is a thing now, and CEOs everywhere must quickly adapt to running a digital-first workplace.ResourcesSid Sijbrandij's tweet thread on the dangers of hybrid-remoteGitLab's Remote PlaybookThe key talking points for this episode:(03:12) - GitLab's foundation story: An intentionally remote company - “I think by far the biggest benefit has been the ability to hire great people.”(12:03) - Achieving real connections through remote communication - “Work and social can reinforce each other, but it's important that you have both conversations.”(18:26) - How hybrid models represent a high risk for your company - “Your best remote people are going to leave, the rest of them are going to feel disenfranchised, and it's going to be a failure. You're going to blame it on remote, when the real problem is hybrid.”(21:48) - On the myth of needing a physical office to be productive and social with your team - “It's all about organizing informal communication.”(29:39) - Remote collaboration and overcoming different time zones - “Naturally, it's hard to engage in asynchronous communication. So get out of it as soon as it's not functional.”(34:11) - A common translation problem and the rarity of successful hybrid companies - “They don't want to go back to the office, they want to go back to informal communication with each other.”(39:18) - Welcoming feedback and making collaboration a priority - “We allow you to make suggestions. We are all about ‘everyone can contribute.'”(45:00) - The importance of salary adjustment among your staff - “The market is the best mechanism for determining what someone will earn.”Support the show (https://themanagershandbook.com/)

#skillsformars #remotework #futureofwork On this episode of "Making Remote Work" I am hosting one of the veteran practitioners of Remote Work - Darren Murph, Head of Remote for GitLab. We discuss Transparency, Values, Leadership, Communication and, of course, the famous GitLab Handbook. As Head of Remote @Gitlab, Darren Murph works at the intersection of culture, process, hiring, employer branding, marketing, and communication. His job is to ensure that GitLab team members acclimate well to remote, that they embrace the values and operate with remote-first workflows. (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/readmes/dmurph/) MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. Subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars https://podhero.com/dashboard/show/474530/ (register, follow & support podcast) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

In this episode, Darren Murph reveals why some businesses are failing in their attempt to work remotely. He also shares his insights into the meaning of culture and how GitLab, having approximately 1200 remote workers, has a culture that all their employees connect and relate with.

In a world in which remote work replaces traditional offices, corporate travel is positioned to play an even more important role in the lives of professionals than before. The value and importance of in-person connections and conversations haven't gone away -- and organizations with remote employees will need to navigate this. In-person connections will be what makes remote work -- and all of its benefits -- possible for millions of more people. Business travel should be something that we look forward to -- we have the technology available today to make booking, check-in, and changes easier than organizing a daily commute. We're not on our own in figuring this out. There are enterprises and leaders who've long understood the benefits of remote work complemented by regular business travel who can help guide us on this new path. We sit down with Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab, and Job van der Voort, Founder and CEO of Remote, to talk through the elevated role of business travel in remote-first companies, and how distributed workforces will come together to fuel the in-person connections that enable employees to build relationships, close deals and drive growth in the future.

We’re talking about all things all-remote with Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab. Darren is tasked with putting intentional thought and action into place to lead the largest all-remote company in the world. Yes, GitLab is 100% all-remote, as in, no offices…and they employee more than 1,200 people across 67 countries. They’ve been iterating and documenting how to work remotely for years. We cover Darren’s personal story on remote work while he served as managing editor at Engadget, his thoughts on how “work” is evolving and ways to reframe and rethink about when you work, this idea of work life harmony, and the backstory and details of the playbook GitLab released free of charge to the world.

We’re talking about all things all-remote with Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab. Darren is tasked with putting intentional thought and action into place to lead the largest all-remote company in the world. Yes, GitLab is 100% all-remote, as in, no offices…and they employee more than 1,200 people across 67 countries. They’ve been iterating and documenting how to work remotely for years. We cover Darren’s personal story on remote work while he served as managing editor at Engadget, his thoughts on how “work” is evolving and ways to reframe and rethink about when you work, this idea of work life harmony, and the backstory and details of the playbook GitLab released free of charge to the world.

In this podcast recording of 21st Century HR Live Lars sat down with GitLab's Head of Remote, Darren Murph.

This week on the podcast, we have Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab, book author, and Guinness World Record holder! We talked about why GitLab uses “all-remote” to describe the company’s remote identity, how hybrid model remote teams can lead to anxiety and guilt, GitLab’s handbook-first approach, and why “story-telling ability” is essential in remote teams.

An interview with Darren Murph, Head of Remote at Gitlab, the leading software company. With the coronavirus outbreak and government-imposed lockdowns, Darren Murph talks about how Gitlab laid down the rules for remote-work and created a culture around trust and autonomy.

Welcome to Accelerating Support! We host discussions with thought leaders and industry experts about overcoming challenges with best in class techniques to accelerate internal support. The podcast is hosted by Chris Buttenham and Kristen Barker from Obie.ai On this episode: - The GitLab "handbook-first" approach to documentation - What role technology should play in remote work and accelerating support - Darren's vision for the future of remote work Connect with Darren: https://allremote.info/ https://twitter.com/darrenmurph Accelerating Support is brought to you by Obie.ai https://obie.ai/acceleratingsupport

With over a decade of experience, Darren Murph joined GitLab to head up all things remote. With over 1200 people and no offices, Darren follows a "handbook first" approach to manage it all. Listen in as Darren dives deep into how GitLab manages their distributed team. 

= Remote Work Series #8 = This episode is part of a series on Remote Work. I'm talking to leaders of remote companies about the pros and cons of working remotely, the most common challenges that remote-first teams face and how to overcome them. Issues like communication, hiring, loneliness and isolation, figuring out timezones, et cetera.

Darren Murph is back for an extended chat with Ed on all things French Polynesia! An expert on this chain of islands, Darren has visited multiple times and provides insight, tips and recommendations for booking a dream trip. Sure, there are ways to leverage points and miles, but for such an aspirational trip you've gotta make sure you've saved up.@darrenmuprh on Twitter @darren_murph on InstagramNowBoarding: The Official BoardingArea PodcastDon’t forget to check out the NowBoarding Podcast – with a NEW show format! Tune in for a recap of the week’s latest news, deals and top posts on BoardingArea!

This week we had an interesting chat with Darren Murph from Gitlab.Darren leads all-remote initiatives at GitLab, one of the world's largest 100% remote companies. He also holds a Guinness World Record in publishing.Explorer at heart, he had travelled in over 50 countries and all 50 US states and worked as a digital nomad. He's passionate about enabling remote work for all and advocating for adoption. This episode is covering a lot of different topics. Darren is such all rounder I am sure we will be recording a new episode soon!In this episode we talk about:How to be a digital nomadRules for building remote cultureRules for running teams with 900+ peopleWhat onsite teams can learn from remote teamsWays to create bonds in remote teamsVideo calls vs Audio callsHow to operate efficientlyHow transparency benefits to companyHow did Darren set a World RecordNotes and links:EngadgetGitlab ValuesGitlab HandbookSid SibrandijMeetings instructionsInformal CommunicationPart-remoteBenefitsGitLab BlogTyporaDarren MurphWebsiteInstagramCredits:Jan Jenko for header photoGramatik for intro music

On this week's episode, Jen Yellin from Deals We Like is back to chat all about the newest IHG credit card promotion! Tune in to hear how to easily earn and best "burn" 125,000 points - the best ever ever sign up bonus they've offered! Darren Murph from The Points Guy is also back on the show to chat all about the benefits of Delta Diamond elite status and how they stand out from their fellow US legacy carriers.Links125,000 Points! Truly the Best Ever Offer for the IHG Premier Credit CardDarren Murph - The Points GuyThanks to Our Sponsor!AutoSlashAutoSlash's mission is focused and clear: to help you get the best possible rental car rate, and then to share their expertise with you so you have the best trip possible. They take the same flexible rates you find on the rental companies’ own sites and then apply the best coupons to them. Sometimes the savings are modest. A lot of times they’re big. Sometimes they’re massive. They do in minutes what it would take you hours to do. And they do it all for free.NowBoarding: The Official BoardingArea PodcastDon’t forget to check out the NowBoarding Podcast – with a NEW show format! Tune in for a recap of the week’s latest news, deals and top posts on BoardingArea!

Join the Resourcefully Speaking community by liking our Facebook Page and by going to pampippin.com! Welcome Darren Murph on today's PAMCAST! Darren is the Guinness World Record Holder for most prolific blogger with a passion for traveling. Listen in as they talk about writing, working remotely, the best traveling tips, and more! Quick Episode Summary: Meet Darren! Darren's world record How world records work What working from home looks like The obligation of every generation The craziest place Darren has ever worked The culture of busy-ness Choosing to rest Why everyone should travel The best point system to travel Darren's lightning round LINKS: Darren’s website:  www.darrenmurph.com Guinness World Record Validation:  www.guinnessworldrecords.com Senior Strategist / Writer with Points Guy:  thepointsguy.com Buy The book - Living The Remote Dream:  darrenmurph.com

Jen Yellin from Deals We Like is back this week with all the info you NEED to know to prepare for Amazon Prime Day! Find out how to get pre-Prime Day deals, extra discounts by redeeming as little as one Amex Membership Rewards point, and more. Our latest "10 Minutes or Less" segment features Darren Murph from The Points Guy. When it comes to visiting Key West, FL, he's got some AWESOME tips. Tune in to find out on how to save money on your hotel, why driving from Ft. Lauderdale can be better than flying and how to get on an exclusive island for just the price of lunch!LinksBest Amazon Prime Day Deals for 2019 — Deals We LikeThanks to Our Sponsor!AutoSlashAutoSlash's mission is focused and clear: to help you get the best possible rental car rate, and then to share their expertise with you so you have the best trip possible. They take the same flexible rates you find on the rental companies’ own sites and then apply the best coupons to them. Sometimes the savings are modest. A lot of times they’re big. Sometimes they’re massive. They do in minutes what it would take you hours to do. And they do it all for free.NowBoarding: The Official BoardingArea PodcastDon’t forget to check out the NowBoarding Podcast – with a NEW show format! Tune in for a recap of the week’s latest news, deals and top posts on BoardingArea!

Darren Murph returns to the podcast to share his love of Alaska, detailing the best times to visit, the differences between Fairbanks and Anchorage, and providing recommendations so you can maximize your time in this gigantic, 663,300-square-mile state. And, being the world-class traveler that he is, Darren even manages to mix in some advice for taking your adventure to the next level, with a side trip way down south to Hawaii. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Seychelles is a cluster of islands that TPG's senior writer Darren Murph describe as "Africa's Hawaii." This remote destination is meant for adventurous travelers: You'll find awesome hiking trails, gorgeous beaches, fresh seafood, and experience a unique culture. With several points-and-miles options for hotels and flights, your trip to paradise is more accessible than ever.Links:How to Use Points to Visit The Seychelles See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hilton's senior vice president and global head of customer engagement, loyalty and partnerships, Mark Weinstein, tells The Points Guy about what you can expect from Hilton stays in the future and what it's like being an Honors loyalist. After, TPG senior writer Darren Murph explains the best ways to redeem points at Hilton properties and earn elite status. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In today's episode, we're talking to Darren Murph, the Guinness World Record Holder for the title of world's most prolific blogger, having authored over 17,212 individual blog posts during his 7-year tenure working for the tech publication Engadget here in the San Francisco Bay area.

Content is king and in this episode I pick the brains of the Guinness Book Of World Records holder for writing almost 7 million words of content. Darren Murph is the founder and CEO of Page52 consulting. But he’s not just any ordinary consultant. He has spent over a decade working remotely and has visited over 40 countries! Darren has been featured on major networks including Oprah, ABC, PBS and NBC to name a few. And his latest adventure on his journey has led him to publish a book called ‘Living The Remote Dream’ What you will learn: How to consistently produce great content How to avoid spending too much time consuming content How to proactively curate content to consume The importance of reading on a daily basis Should you write on your blog or other platforms How do you produce content that stands out How to get the most exposure for your content Why passion is the most crucial contributing factor to your success Interesting highlights: Darren has visited over 40 countries Darren won a Guinness World Record for writing over 6 million words of blog content Darren spent 8 years never spending more than 2 weeks in one place! Darren's #1 practical advice:  “When people ask what you do, tell them a story”Tweet This Resources & Links: Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/) Tech Crunch (http://techcrunch.com/) Zach Honig (https://twitter.com/zachhonig) The Points Guy (http://thepointsguy.com/) Tech Radar (http://www.techradar.com/) Page 52 Consulting  (http://darrenmurph.com/consulting/) CES - Consumer Electronics Show (https://www.ces.tech/) MG Siegler  (http://techcrunch.com/author/mg-siegler/) Paul Miller (http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/8/3007525/paul-miller-offline) Peter Rojas (http://roj.as/) Warren Buffett (http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/) Tim Stevens  (https://twitter.com/Tim_Stevens) Medium (https://medium.com/) Living the remote dream (http://www.amazon.com/Living-Remote-Dream-Setting-Advancing/dp/1506192130) - Darren's Book Get in touch with Darren on Twitter - @darrenmurph Thank You for Listening! I would like to personally thank you for listening to my podcast.  If you enjoyed today’s show, please share it with others. Just click on the social buttons below. Also, if you podcast on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/can-i-pick-your-brain/id1076916148?mt=2) , you would be joining me on my mission to help as many people as I can become really successful. And finally if you haven’t already subscribed podcast on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/can-i-pick-your-brain/id1076916148?mt=2) , so you can get automatic updates whenever another episode goes live!

Darren has created a multifaceted, dynamic career without having a permanent office, and you can too. Find out how on The Nice Guys Podcast today.   Here's more that we learned from Darren Murph today:   - He holds the Guinness World Record as the planet's most prolific professional blogger.      - Darren has his MBA in Business.      - He led SnapPower's entire PR campaign on its second Kickstarter project, netting over $800k in pledges.      - You need a blog to give people a sense of who you are.      - He published his own book -- Living The Remote Dream -- which acts as a guide for those seeking to add greater flexibility into their work life.  http://www.amazon.com/Living-Remote-Dream-Setting-Advancing/dp/1506192130/   Here are a couple of his CreativeLive courses: 1) https://www.creativelive.com/courses/how-to-write-a-blog-that-drives-traffic-with-darren-murph 2) https://www.creativelive.com/courses/work-remotely-thrive-in-a-job-from-home-with-darren-murph    Website: http://darrenmurph.com/       Contact Darren- darrenmurph@gmail.com  Twitter- @DarrenMurph Want to get pinned on our listener map? Just go to http://www.dougsandler.com/podcast-by-the-nice-guys/ and answer the question, where are you from? And we'll add you to the map. You can see it here- http://www.niceguysonbusiness.com/services.html   Subscribe to the Podcast   Don't underestimate the Power of Nice.  

Darren Murph, Guinness World Record holder as the globe's most prolific professional blogger, discusses how to successfully work from home and remotely.

Nothing says reunion of old friends quite like a few cups of tea and a couple of microphones. It had been a year or two since I’d last seen my former Engadget colleague and current world record holding blogger Darren Murph, so I suggested a sit down at my favorite combination tea house/impromptu podcast recording venue when he found himself in the city for a few days. In addition to his PR day job, Murph is an incredibly prolific writer who has penned a 17,000+ blog posts and a number of electronics guides. His latest book, however, is by far his most personal. The self-released Living the Remote Dream is a sort of bible for the blogger’s world traveling, remote working lifestyle. Murph and I sat down over some pots of green tea and discussed our glory days of gadget blogging and surviving the rapidly changing world of digital publishing. As with Murph’s latest book, it’s one of the most personal episodes of RiYL, along side the conversation with fellow former Engadgeteer Tim Stevens about life in the trenches of tech journalism.