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 belated annual Christmas dinner took place at the end of February. This year we met in Switzerland to get to know Lucerne and our new office there. And because we were all in the same place, it was the prefect time for a company photo shoot.Planning a retreat in times of a pandemic continues …
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Just in time for the new year, we have got ourselves a new logo. Certain people will have noticed this already, since we have integrated the new logo on our website and social media channels. I would like to tell you how it came about and what thoughts we had.Brand design sprintIn late 2020, we …
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Our international team has not been able to meet completely for over two years. The restrictions of the pandemic have stood in our way so far. The newest team members, including myself, have not yet had the opportunity to meet all of us in person. In August 2021, we planned a retreat in a villa …
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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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We are happy to welcome Corina in our team! As a frontend developer Corina will support us and our customers in bringing sophisticated designs alive to the browsers.In May 2019, we decided to try a new hiring way, at least for us, and placed a job ad on freshjobs in the classic way. We described …
Continue reading Corina is required!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 …
Continue reading Virtual conventional recruitmentAt 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 …
Continue reading New Year’s trip 2020Company Retreat & WordPress ConferenceIt has almost become a tradition attending the yearly WordCamp Europe, which we did this year too. We met a few days before the conference in Berlin to work together on a few tasks, laugh and of course to eat well.Our WeekBerlinWe spent the whole week in Berlin. The first part …
Continue reading We are required in BerlinWe 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 beAt 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 2018In the last few years we usually combined our annual team retreat with the conference “WordCamp Europe”. Unfortunately not every team member was able to attend the event in Serbia this year. Therefore, we caught up with the whole team a few weeks later to meet at our German branch in Schwerin.The New OfficeAs of …
Continue reading Company Retreat 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 MeetingTo 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 2017We met in Paris for a WordPress conference, invited our partner, friend and photographer Boris Baldinger and had a personal branding photo shoot for each team member.At required we have built a remote culture where everyone can live their individual lifestyles and work from wherever on this planet they want to be. Each team member is …
Continue reading Photo Shoot in ParisIt’s with great pleasure that we announce WordPress core developer and former release lead of 4.6, Dominik Schilling joined our German branch as a full-time WordPress developer.We invited him to stay with us for WordCamp Europe 2016 in Vienna and he began his trial period later in 2016 after shipping WordPress 4.6 on time.According to Dominik, …
Continue reading Dominik Schilling joined requiredLet’s take a moment to look back at a successful 2016. We had the pleasure to build amazing projects for amazing clients in our 4th year as required. People Projects WordCamps Sponsoring Retreat & Pictures Fun Facts Remote for the win Looking Forward In the last 3 years we built a special page for our …
Continue reading A quick recap on 2016I’m thrilled to announce that Ulrich Pogson has joined required as a part-time WordPress developer back in August 2016.We met in person as co-organisers for WordCamp Switzerland and invited Ulrich for a trial with us after we got to know him better. Besides developing outstanding solutions on large client projects with us, Ulrich runs a …
Continue reading Ulrich Pogson joined our team as WordPress developerAlthough we are still very young – we founded our company at the beginning of 2013 – our history started way before the name required emerged.
Continue reading A brief history on required and why the + is goneThis post was written in WordPress. That shouldn’t come as a surprise, since we are a WordPress agency. But for the last couple of years, this website was rarely updated and there was a good reason for that.
Continue reading A focus week got us our new (WordPress) websiteKarin talked at WordCamp Vancouver about our journey with Freshjobs.ch – a job board for Swiss web professionals. The talk is intended to be a business talk. She’s going to share our experience in designing & building an online platform on top of WordPress. Karin will share some secrets and learning from running and maintaining …
Continue reading The Journey From A Side Project To A WordPress AgencyThe 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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