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Remote work guide

Hiring:

Word of mouth, personal recommendations three levels screening three months trial; failing trials, reference checks Onboarding process: Set up home office, ICT and systems between manager, HR and IT; introductions on the first day; onboarding buddy to help settle in and learn culture; HR explains available resources; automated email explaining payments; automated foundation documents (vision, mission, minutes, systems); manager 1on1 and check-in with new hire

Culture:

Default to open Assume good intent Individual growth is organisation growth

Meeting protocols

More than three: mics muted Moderator Update calls: current speaker chooses next speaker Recurring meetings and ad-hoc meetings Check-in, weekly 1-on-1s, weekly team, quarterly day retreat, yearly week planning

Tools

  1. Communicator: Matrix, Jitsi, Slack (Donut onboarding bot, Geekbot check-in bot,
  2. Writing: Wiki, Git
  3. OKR and strategic planning tool
  4. Project management

Engineering (content) project management: Agile

two-week sprints initial planning meeting tasks sorted to priority, pick the next task from the top use project management tool use Git automate as possible retrospective meeting agenda: what went well? what didn't go so well? what should we change? what should we keep?

Design (support) process

Monday sync meeting: update last week, lay out next week Wednesday show off meeting: work in progress Thursday optional hangout

Home office: air, sound, chair, table, light, PC, screens, keyboard and mouse, microphone, headphone, webcam, internet connection