Due to the global pandemic COVID-19, many companies and people are forced to experience remote work for the first time. We have been working remotely since we created the company, in 2014. We want to share a few tips that will make remote working a better experience and sustainable over time.

#1: HOW SHOULD THE CULTURE BE? It has to be stronger than a company culture of a non-remote company, and it has to make things easier. In this post, we discuss how we do it in our officeless development consultancy.

#2: HOW TO MAINTAIN IT? Practice what you preach; founders are natural leaders; hire only senior and proactive people; avoid blocking situations; remote is the new normal.

One of the concerns our potential clients bring up during our sales process is how do we know if our employees are really working. The short answer is: if they're not working, I won't be able to bill you, and will lose you as a client and that will impact my reputation.

Turns out, all-remote companies with distributed teams are more complex than most people think, and do require an Office Manager. Bego, at that time our Office Manager, shared her experience, which remains relevant nowadays.
 

We are an officeless company providing web & mobile design and development services remotely to clients around the globe. Learn how we manage our employees, the contractors and other agencies we work with, and the teams of our clients using Basecamp.

As a remote working company, we face a lot of questions about how we deal with customers: "How do you earn their trust?", "how can they know if you're working?", "how do you deal with specification changes?" and so on. We explain you how we do it.

We are extremely honoured to have been mentioned on GitLab's "The importance of a handbook-first approach to documentation" next to Basecamp and other companies we look up to. A few months ago, we published our employee handbook for everyone to enjoy, learn or take inspiration from. We love to see it's valuable to the community!

Welcome to Startup Grind Barcelona 1st online event! Affected by COVID-19, everyone is forced to go remote. Sergio Gago has been a CTO in companies like Rakuten, Tangelo Games, Zinio and now is EVP Technology at Naviga. He will talk about security issues to take into account as well as how to manage relationships with clients, employees, investors, among others.

Welcome to Startup Grind Barcelona 2nd online event! On this occasion, we'll learn from MarsBased, a company that has been running for six years without an office, working for clients all around the globe and with a team of 20 people, distributed remotely. We will have two of the three founders, the COO Jordi Vendrell and the CEO Àlex Rodriguez Bacardit.

This illuminating book by Jason Fried and DHH, the co-founders of Basecamp, explores thoroughly the “work from home” phenomenon. MarsBased is heavily inspired in this book, which provided the epiphany that we could (and quite possibly, should) create a different company.
TODAY - livestream on "How to Work Remotely Q&A" with the authors @jasonfried and @dhh:

The question regarding the future of the workplace is no longer “is remote work here to stay?”. It seems like remote work might even be the new normal. This report by Buffer and AngelList provides insights into the real question now, which is “what trends are growing across the remote work landscape?”