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Why remote work is important to Doist:
* Meaningful jobs outside of tech hubs (SF, NYC) 💰
* Working with talented people across the world 🌎
* Flexibility & balance for team members 😌
* Emphasis on trust and transparency 🤝
* Diverse perspectives of a truly global team 🤔
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Long-Term Positive Impacts of Remote Work
* Revitalization of small towns 🏡
* Reduced vehicle emissions 📉
* More cross-cultural collaboration 🤝
* Meaningful work for primary caregivers 💯
* Technology advances to support distributed work 🌎
What else?
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How We Support Wellbeing at Doist
* 40 days paid vacation per year ⛱
* Advocating 8 hour work days ⏰
* Encouraging the use of sick days for mental health 🤗
* Coworking perk to avoid social isolation 🤝
* Mental Health Monthly initiative 📣
* Discussions on mindfulness 😌
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Working remotely from home *doesn’t* mean...
* you can’t take a sick or personal day
* you aren’t allowed to take breaks
* you should answer work messages 24/7
* you have to work non-stop
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👋 A reminder that the future of work is trust, not tracking.
Remote teams built on a foundation of trust & transparency are more likely to thrive.
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Top Traits of Successful Remote Workers
* Strong communicators 💬
* Motivated self-starters 💪
* Results-oriented 📈
* Collaborative 🙎🏽👨🏻💼
* Trustworthy 🤝
* Disciplined ✅
* Organized 🗂
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When communicating asynchronously, keep conversations positive, concise and constructive. 💯
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How We Support Wellbeing at Doist
* 40 days paid vacation per year ⛱
* Advocating 8 hour work days ⏰
* Encouraging the use of sick days for mental health 🤗
* Coworking perk to avoid social isolation 🤝
* Mental Health Monthly initiative 📣
* Discussions on mindfulness 😌
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Hot take:
Remote teams' IRL time should not involve “hard work.” This stuff is done better remotely and asynchronously. It’s about “soft work” — things that might not look like work at all, but that are *absolutely essential* for any cohesive team.
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Remote managers should be more concerned about their team overworking, not underworking. 🌏
👉twist.com/remote-work-guides…
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A friendly reminder for remote workers:
* Unplug from work on the weekends 🔌
* Don't work while you're sick 🤒
* Take vacation days 😌
When the option to work is always at your fingertips, it's easy to forget you need to recharge.
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A friendly reminder for remote workers:
* Unplug from work on the weekends 🔌
* Don't work while you're sick 🤒
* Take vacation days 😌
When the option to work is always at your fingertips, it's easy to forget you need to recharge.
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✨We’re starting Doist Office Hours to help with any questions you have about transitioning to remote work. With team members across the world, we’re offering these conversation in 7 languages! 🌏
Book time with these Doisters 👇
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December is a "DO Break" at Doist. This means not starting another 4-week work cycle and instead focusing on the following:
* Working on side-projects
* Exploring new ideas, learning new things
* Housekeeping tasks and/or polishing features
Evolving how we work is a constant!
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Remote-first work means recognizing a distinction between being allowed to work remotely, and being empowered to work remotely.
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Today we went from "sick days" ➡️ "health days"
Here's why👇
*Productivity is unrealistic when you can't prioritize your well-being 👩💻
*Overall health goes far & beyond running a fever 😌
*We trust our team to use days as they see fit 🤗
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Advantages of Remote Work
* Higher employee retention 😌
* Increased team productivity ✅
* Global and diverse talent pool 🌏
* Intentional workflows and processes 🔁
* Reduced office costs 💰
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Friendly reminder for new remote workers:
* Take periodic breaks during the day 😌
* Unplug from work on the weekends 🔌
* Don't work while you're sick 🤒
* Take vacation days ☀️
When the option to work is always at your fingertips, it's easy to forget you need to recharge.
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Tips for a Productive Home Office
* Quiet space for focus 😌
* Ergonomic chair to minimize back pain 💪
* Plants for greenery and air filtration 🌿
* Books for referencing and inspiration 📚
* Great lighting to reduce eye strain 💡
* Effective storage for less clutter 📂
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The best ways to avoid #remotework burnout:
* Set regular work hours ⌚️
* Take frequent breaks 🙆
* Limit your distractions 🔕
* Make plans and stay social irl 👫
* Keep your workspace organized 👨🏽💻
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When working remotely, it’s normal to:
*Not feel productive
*Get overwhelmed
*Feel isolated
Give yourself grace. Take all the space you need.
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Avoiding Remote Work Burnout
* Set regular work hours ⌚️
* Take frequent breaks 🙆
* Limit your distractions 🔕
* Keep your workspace organized 👨🏽💻
* Make time for hobbies and interests 🎨
* Stay connected with friends and family 📱
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Top Traits of Successful Remote Workers
* Strong communicators 💬
* Motivated self-starters 💪
* Results-oriented 📈
* Collaborative 🙎🏽👨🏻💼
* Trustworthy 🤝
* Disciplined ✅
* Organized 🗂
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How Doist Builds Remote Team Culture
* Sharing vacation plans and photos 📸
* Virtual gaming tournaments + Duolingo Clubs 🎮
* Discussing local holidays and traditions 🇪🇸
* Twist channels to talk books, music, and health 📚
* Celebrating important personal milestones 🏡👶🐶
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"Working remotely allows me to be a full-time father and not miss any important milestones of my daughter like her first words or steps. Being able to sit on the table with my family for all 3 meals of the day is the best part." - Keita, @Doist Support Specialist 👶
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Working remotely means the option to work is always at your fingertips. Don't forget you need to recharge. Take time off to fully unplug. 🔌
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Retention Rates of Remote Companies 🌎
* @doist –– 98.5%
* @buffer –– 94%
* @zapier –– 94%
* @BuySellAds –– 90%
* @gitlab –– 85%
Learn how remote teams build strong company cultures that keep employees happy and engaged!
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Remote Work Facts:
* Remote work is rising in most industries
* Remote employees report more daily work progress
* 37% of employees would switch jobs to work off-site part-time
* Engagement highest among workers who spend 3-4 days working remotely
Source: @Gallup
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Avoiding Remote Work Burnout
* Set regular work hours ⌚️
* Take frequent breaks 🙆
* Limit your distractions 🔕
* Make plans and stay social irl 👫
* Keep your workspace organized 👨🏽💻
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We’re hiring a Product Designer at Doist!
Join the creative team behind @todoist and @usetwist and help build the future of work. Also, we're 100% remote –– work from anywhere in the world! 🌎
🗓 We’re accepting applications until June 30th: buff.ly/2piLZ3E
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To be a remote first company, you must also be asynchronous first.
Laying a foundation for both allows teams to:
😀 Focus more on work and less on real-time responses
🔌 Disconnect and enjoy life outside of work
⏰ Collaborate effectively across timezones
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"Working remotely, I get to take meaningful breaks every few hours. I visit with my wife Lauren and my son Ashwin, and we play, read or go for walks. Balance has become an essential part of my life and we're all happier for it. 😌" - Doist's Product Marketer, @neilvidyarthi
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💡Underrated benefit of remote work:
Hiring from a worldwide talent pool means that global perspectives shape your products and services. 🌍
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How Doist does on-boarding on a fully remote team:
1. Welcome them in @twistappteam 🎉
2. Guide them through a @todoist on-boarding project ✅
3. Pair them with a mentor for 3 months 👫
4. Send them on a trip to co-work with their mentor ✈️
5. Ongoing support and check-ins 🤝
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A reminder: It is easy to be isolated within your own thoughts while working remotely. You are not your thoughts. Don't be so hard on yourself.
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Over half of employees will work remotely by 2020.
More flexible work arrangements 😌
Reduced commute times 🚘
Increased global citizenship 🌍
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After 3 years in the making we're proud to announce @TwistAppTeam: A fundamentally different way of working together blog.doist.com/twist-mindful…
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A friendly reminder for remote workers:
* Unplug from work on the weekends 🔌
* Don't work while you're sick 🤒
* Take vacation days 😌
When the option to work is always at your fingertips, it's easy to forget you need to recharge.
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As more companies return to work (some transitioning to a hybrid work model) it's important to differentiate remote-friendly vs. remote first.
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Today, and always, Doist stands for inclusivity, open-mindedness, and diversity 🌎✊ tentimezones.com/standing-up… #NoBanNoWall
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5 Key Habits for Remote Workers
* Plan your days ahead of time
* Join or build your own community
* Be clear on your priorities
* Set time for distraction-free work
* Know when to unplug
More on crafting a remote routine that works for you! 👇
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The Doist design team meets up in Prague! We've just started experimenting with mini team retreats. 🇨🇿
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At Doist, we're a 100% remote team...except for a week each year during our annual retreat! 🇨🇱#DoistRetreat2018 #Chile2018
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Our communication tools of choice as a remote team 🛠
Synchronous: @telegram, @appear_in @Google Meet, and @Skype.
Asynchronous: @todoist, @github, @googledocs, @Dropbox Paper, @Azure, @marvelapp, @zeplin, and @twistappteam.
How we use them 👉 buff.ly/2UQ6xTb
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One of the major perks of remote work is that employees don’t have to live in expensive hubs.
Instead, they can reside close to family and friends in affordable cities and towns. 😌
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"Remote work means I have the time and flexibility to optimize my life for doing my best work, while becoming my best self and trying to be the best Dad ever."- @odsamuels, Tech Support @Doist 👨🏾💻
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They say building culture on a distributed team is impossible. Well… we have been remote-first for over 15 years and today, we are SO honored to be awarded the most Vibrant Remote Work Culture Award at @RunningRemote 🏆🎉🥇 #runningremote
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The best ways to avoid #remotework burnout:
* Set regular work hours ⌚️
* Take frequent breaks 🙆
* Limit your distractions 🔕
* Make plans and stay social irl 👫
* Keep your workspace organized 👨🏽💻
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Good Habits for Working from Home (via @lifehacker)
* Keep to a schedule
* Don't work from bed
* Get dressed
* Find a working group
* Keep a planner
* Get out of the house
* Exercise
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A glimpse into some of the home offices at Doist on global #WorkFromHomeDay! Remote work offers an unparalleled ability to design your live to be both productive and flexible. We hope others join the movement. 🚀
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The rise or remote work will provide meaningful job opportunities for many around the world. 🌎
With an internet connection and a desire to learn in-demand skills, upward economic mobility will be available for more people than ever before. 📈
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"We don't really judge people by the amount of hours they work. We don't track them and we don't really care. What we really care about is that they create great work." - @amix3k
We'll be back for @RunningRemote in Bali from June 29-30, 2019!
Join us 👉buff.ly/2BBqpy1
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"For ten years I fought depression despite living the life I always wanted traveling the world. It wasn't until I returned to Denmark and settled down that I realized crafting things with my hands was key to my personal happiness outside work" - @Zjellstrom, @Doist's COO
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Big launches call for non-remote festivities! Doisters gathered in several cities to celebrate the release of Todoist Foundations! 🚀🎉
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Remote Work Rules for Life and Work
Life 👤
* Regularly disconnect from work
* Set boundaries that encourage balance
* Stay social
Work 💼
* Avoid an endless stream of meetings
* Prioritize async communication
* Focus on inputs not outputs
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How to encourage employee well-being 👇
*Preserve weekends
*Allow flexible schedules
*Use async communication
*Shorten work weeks or work hours
*Encourage (or require) people to use their vacation days
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How Doist does on-boarding on a fully remote team:
1. Welcome them in @twistappteam 🎉
2. Guide them through a @todoist on-boarding project ✅
3. Pair them with a mentor for 3 months 👫
4. Send them on a trip to co-work with their mentor ✈️
5. Ongoing support and check-ins 🤝
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30+ remote work experts contributed advice to 7 actionable guides!
1. Remote Work 🌏
2. Remote Company Setup 🛠
3. Remote Project Management ✅
4. Remote Hiring 👋
5. Remote Management 🤝
6. Remote Communication 💬
7. Remote Design ✨
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We get thousands of applications across our remote job openings at Doist. Here are the 8 biggest mistakes applicants make! 👇
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A glimpse into some of the workspaces on the @Doist team! Remote works means optimizing your personal workspace for you. 😌
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✨ Here's a peek into how Doisters use the redesigned @todoist Android Widget! 📲
Learn all about our latest release 👉 buff.ly/2UBfpt6
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There's a difference between "remote-friendly" and "remote-first companies". This can have an impact on your career as a remote worker. 🌎
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Top Misconceptions About Remote Work
* It's difficult to innovate as a team
* It's the same as digital nomadism
* Remote companies don't hire outside the US
* It leads to decreased productivity and output
* You can't build a company culture remotely
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At Doist, we have the following groups in place to balance long-term projects with short-term demands:
* Permanent teams
* Monthly squads
* Monthly heroes
Learn our system 👉: buff.ly/2SEJJ4K
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☎️ Welcome to #AskDoist week!
Meet some of the team. We'll be here answering your questions all week!
Have a question for our team? Leave them below!👇
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✏️We wrote a remote worker’s guide to becoming a better writer!
* Use the simplest words available
* Avoid acronyms and jargon
* Respond with positivity
* Be mindful of tone
* Get to the point
Read for 30+ tips on communicating clearly 👇
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Check out @remotiveio’s list of 2500 startups hiring remotely in 2020! 🚀
Work remotely from anywhere, build a flexible schedule, and join the distributed movement! 🌎
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😔: open offices, meetings and shoulder taps, constant notifications
😊: quiet workspaces, asynchronous communication, notification-free
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🌎 Work from anywhere ✅
😊 Diverse + inclusive team ✅
🛶 Annual retreat ✅
🕰 Flexible hours ✅
📱 Great products ✅
👉 doist.com/jobs/
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"Remote work enables me to focus on my personal and professional development. Rather than competing with others, I focus on how I can improve upon who I was yesterday by learning new things and approaching problems from different angles." - @andrewgobran, People Ops at Doist 👋🌎
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Doist Retreats:
* Menorca 2015 🇪🇸
* Iceland 2016 🇮🇸
* Athens 2017 🇬🇷
* Santiago 2018 🇨🇱
We're looking forward to Azores 2019 in a few weeks! 🇵🇹
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New blog, new look! The same research driven articles on productivity, teamwork, and remote work. ✨
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Guten morgen from “#Doistberg”, a small village in the Austrian Alps, soon to be hosting our first company retreat since 2019 🥳🇦🇹
Stay tuned throughout the week for lots of exciting updates across all of our social channels!
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Thinking of making the the switch to #remotework? Here are 600 companies (including @Doist!) that are hiring for remote positions.🌎 buff.ly/2qL6x8C
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At Doist, we have a 97% employee retention rate and it’s typical for team members to have tenures of 5-10 years. 📆
We wrote about how remote companies achieve employee retention rates 2-10x longer than many office-based teams!
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We're hiring! 😊
* Senior Android Developer
* Web Developer
* Senior iOS Developer
* Windows Engineer
* Front-end Engineer
* Back-end Engineer
Join our fully remote team. 🌎
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We get thousands of applications across our remote job openings at Doist. Here are the 8 biggest mistakes applicants make! 👇
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Remote work is not the same as digital nomadism.
“It’s okay to prioritize friendships, community, and your mental health over traveling.”
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Top Tools at Doist 🛠
Communication @twistappteam
Projects @todoist
Dev @github, @AzureDevOps
Specs @Dropbox Paper
Video @Google, @zoom_us, @appear_in
Design @sketchapp, @marvelapp, @zeplin
Marketing @buffer, @medium
Translation @transifex
Support @Zendesk
Files @googledrive
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Remote Work Rules for Life and Work
Life 🏡
* Regularly disconnect from work
* Set boundaries that encourage balance
* Stay social
Work 💻
* Avoid an endless stream of meetings
* Prioritize async communication
* Focus on inputs not outputs
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We’re hosting a live Q&A on remote work next week! 🌎
If you’re transitioning to working from home, what questions can we answer for you or your team? Leave your questions in the comments! 🤔
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😔: open offices, meetings and shoulder taps, constant notifications
😊: quiet workspaces, asynchronous communication, notification-free
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"I work with brilliant minds from across the globe, exercise whenever I please, watch The Office for lunch on the daily, and I get to spend more time with my dogs than ever before. It's hard not to love remote work." - @evertv__, Doist Support Specialist 👨💻
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💡Underrated benefit of remote work:
Hiring from a worldwide talent pool means that global perspectives shape your products and services. 🌍
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This week was meant to be our 2020 Doist retreat in Singapore. We're grateful to be operating normally and reminiscing on past retreats instead! 😌
* Iceland 2016 🇮🇸
* Greece 2017 🇬🇷
* Chile 2018 🇨🇱
* Portugal 2019 🇵🇹
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