EP018 - Remote works - how to make work better with Ali Greene of Remote Works Consulting
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Remote works - how to make work better with Ali Greene of Remote Works Consulting
About the episode
This episode focuses on remote work habits. How to make work better, how to build better remote working habits, and how to create better remote teams. I had a great chat with Ali Greene, who co-authored a recently published book, Remote Works.
About the guest
Ali is the co-author of Remote Works: Managing for Freedom, Flexibility. A remote worker and leader since 2014, Ali has experience growing the fully distributed team at DuckDuckGo from 30 people to nearly 100 people in four years as their Director of People Ops. Before co-founding Remote Works Consulting she was most recently sharing her remote work expertise as the former Head of Culture and Community at Oyster, where she hosted their Distributed Discussions podcast. Ali was named a "Remote Accelerator" in the 2022 Remote Influencer Report by Remote. Ali's mission is to empower people and companies, helping them thrive in making work (and life!) better.
About the host
My name is Peter Benei, founder of Anywhere Consulting. My mission is to help and inspire a community of remote leaders who can bring more autonomy, transparency, and leverage to their businesses, ultimately empowering their colleagues to be happier, more independent, and more self-conscious.
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Quotes from the show
Remote work is letting people do their thing. It's about letting them figure out how they work best instead of telling them how they work best.
People operations need to revisit employee benefits. It's not about the benefit. It's about why the benefit exists. What purpose and behavior are you trying to encourage employees to have?
While I think we're seeing organizations decide if their company will lean into hybrid or fully distributed, it is up to the managers to make the remote work process successful for their employees. And I hadn't seen that done intentionally because I don't think managers knew what that looked like.