I have been working 100% remotely for half a year now, with a relatively free time structure. Are social contacts at the office and a structured daily routine missing? With three examples, I want to show why I have been able to gain more time through this new way of working.
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It is my special pleasure to introduce our newest team member, Tuğçe Nur Taş. She joined us in October 2022 as a front-end developer and technical project manager.Tuğçe Nur is an organizational talent that has a bird’s-eye view of projects, which allows her to keep them on track. Combined with her expertise in web technologies, …
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It is with pleasure that I introduce our new team member for our German office. Jeff Chi joined our team in September 2022 as a web developer.With his education as a media designer, bachelor’s degree in design, and several years of agency experience as a web developer, Jeff brings a unique perspective to our team. …
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Our company culture was not extremely affected by the pandemic. As a well-established remote team, we didn’t have to rearrange ourselves during the lockdown. What we did notice, however, was the distance and the fact that our team is international. As a remote team, we are extremely dependent on meeting in person from time to …
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Almost a year ago, in the article “We Are Hiring – as conventional as it can be” we wrote about our plans to search for a new team member for the first time in a more or less conventional way. During this for us rather new recruitment process, we got to know some interesting and …
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If you follow me on Instagram you would have probably noticed that I have been recently spending a lot of my spare-time on my mountain bike. I was invited to attend a VIP Event at the Santa Cruz Bicycles Factory in Santa Cruz and decided to extend the trip and spend a couple of weeks …
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At the beginning of this year, it was time again for our yearly retreat. This time we went to Zermatt. It had been a few months since we had last met and as a distributed team we have only been in contact with each other via online tools like Slack or Zoom. To compensate the …
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Having newly moved to Basel in September last year, I had to find new places to work from. As at required we work remotely, I am not forced to go to one of our offices. Each of us works from their home office or has an office in their city.Working from home the whole week …
Continue reading Working remotely in BaselWe keep our team as small and efficient as possible. But the time has come to extend our team with a new member. That’s why we are in recruiting mode and this time we are choosing the conventional process. Since the founding of the required gmbh in 2013, we have grown slowly but steadily – …
Continue reading We Are Hiring – as conventional as it can beSince we are a remote company, everyone is free to choose wherever they want to work from. In my case, that’s mostly my home office. I’ll share some tips which help me getting work done, while balancing the whole life-part.tldr; Dress for the office, focus, take breaks, eat lunch, meet friends.My home office situationI have …
Continue reading On working from homeAt the end of the year, the whole required crew gets together for our annual Christmas trip. Since we are a distributed team, this is one of the few occasions where we get to spend quality time together in-person. After going to Copenhagen in 2017, we settled for a warmer location this time: Lisbon, Portugal.Most …
Continue reading XMAS Trip 2018Why we don’t exclusively work remotely A remote team needs to develop itself and should set itself goals to become better, just like any other team. For this reason, and because some face-to-face time is vital in remote teams, I met Karin and Velthy in Berlin to discuss required‘s management topics. AccommodationOf course, we are …
Continue reading Strategy MeetingWinter time in Switzerland means a lot of fog in the cities but lots of sun in the mountains. Since the end of 2017, LAAX has a co-working space on top of the Crap Sogn Gion, 2252 meters above sea level.That’s why I got out of the mist soup to beam myself up onto the …
Continue reading Working from 2252 metres ASLThis year I ended up deciding to go to South East Asia for three months. As recommended by friends, one of the destinations was KoHub, a co-working space in Ko Lanta, Thailand.This ended up being a great decision. I was able to get away from the cold Swiss winter and meet great people from all …
Continue reading Working at a tropical co-working spaceIn a typical office environment, it’s easy to walk over to your teammate’s desk when you have a question or need help. But since we’re a remote team, we don’t see each other physically. We would like to share our story of why we became a remote team and the challenges we deal with day …
Continue reading Why we are a remote teamTo have a good time with each other and to eat good food: These are two important points for when we see each other in person. As a distributed team, we see only each other occasionally at different events. Therefore, the time together is very rare and so precious.As a remote team, we need to …
Continue reading XMAS Trip 2017Dominik, Karin, Pascal and Velthy spent a week in Bilbao to get some work done and to attend the local WordCamp on the weekend.Pascal and Dominik both talked about the fields of internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n). In an area where people speak both Spanish and Basque, that was a pretty suitable topic. Our apartments Bilbao …
Continue reading Work Week & WordCamp BilbaoThe nomadic lifestyle is quite popular these days. Usually you read about the topic from freelancers or entrepreneurs starting with a product. The kind of people who are very independent, without lots of responsibilities. But you rarely hear from actual agencies who do this kind of thing. So, we at required do and Karin has …
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