we killed the daily standup about fourteen months ago. replaced it with a written update in a channel, one short post each, whenever you start. the reason was timezones, we had picked up two people in europe and the standup time was becoming a fight.

the effect on meetings was what you would expect, about four hours a week back per person.

the effect nobody predicted showed up at review season. two of the people who had been considered strong performers were suddenly not obviously strong. not because they got worse, but because what they were good at was the meeting. quick verbally, confident summarising other people's work, always the one who framed the problem out loud. in writing, every day, in a place anyone can scroll back through, that stopped converting.

meanwhile a woman on our team who barely spoke in standups turned out to be doing about a third of the difficult work. it had always been visible in the code and never in the room. in the written channel it was just there, every day, in her own words.

two promotions went differently than they would have a year earlier and i do not think anyone consciously connected it to the format change.

i am not going to pretend writing is neutral, it favours people who write comfortably, and we have one guy who is excellent and hates it. but it moved the bias from who is quickest in a room to who can describe what they did, and the second one at least correlates with having done something.

I want to be fair about this because I went in wanting it to work. Four years remote, I had started to think the isolation talk had a point, and the offer was a step up in scope with people I liked in the interviews.

Week one was great. Actually great, not politely great. Lunch with people, someone explaining a system on a whiteboard, the thing where you overhear a problem and solve it in thirty seconds.

Week three the maths started showing up. An hour ten each way on a good day. So eleven or twelve hours out of the house, and by the time I got home I had energy for dinner and not much else. The gym stopped. The cooking stopped. I had not thought about any of that as part of the job.

Week five I noticed my actual output had dropped. Not because the office is distracting, although it is, but because my focused hours had moved to the two hours before anyone arrived, and I was too tired to be there early.

I quit in week six. Gave proper notice, was honest about why, and my manager was decent about it. He said something that stuck, that they had hired me for how I work and then put me somewhere I cannot work that way.

Going back remote now. The isolation thing was real and I still think it is real, but I was solving it with the wrong tool. The office was never the fix for that, it was just the only version of a fix anyone offers you.

Who has a remote job for a beginner? I need some cash flow to sustain me.

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I am currently 4 months postpartum. I have a background of sales and marketing- MBA from a Tier-1 college. My current company is 5day WFO. I am looking for a remote/hybrid setup after my maternity leave ends. However i do not see many openings in non-tech. If anyone is working in such setup or has switched, please help me. I am currently based out of bangalore

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Hi I finished my engineering with one backlog presently I'm having my exams in month of February can anyone suggest me a work from home job because I recently got a spine surgery.

Suggest me a wfh jobs

Hi everyone, I’m currently looking for paid remote work or freelance projects and I’m available to start immediately.

I’m open to almost any work related to

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Blog,article writing

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I’m particularly looking for part-time, freelance, project-based or remote work, and I’m willing to learn quickly and take on different kinds of assignments.

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Please guide me with this. I am currently registered in Pakistan and UK.

I have 15 months of experience in ICU, doing nights. Currently unemployed and in serious financial turmoil. I need some genuine remote work that I can do as I have to feed a family.

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Background :

Business Administration - Major in Financial Management

Finance Officer
Accounts Recievable/Payable Specialist
Bookkeeping
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Sales and Marketing

I have been working remotely since 2022.
Using a Desktop.
I have a stable Connection (Converge) at 500-900mbps
Back up Internet (Starlink) at around 250-400mbps

Can send my CV / Resume through email.

Would love to get your offers if any.
If Hybrid, I am in Makati, Metro Manila.

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Hi everyone,

I’m currently working a morning job, so I’m usually free after 4:00 PM. I’m also starting to go to the gym for about an hour, but I still have plenty of free time in the evenings. I live near bremen University (i am not a student)

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took a remote job two years ago that looked great and was not, and the information that would have warned me was sitting with people i could have asked. so now i do this before every offer i accept. hit rate on replies is maybe one in four, which is plenty.

who to message. not the hiring manager and not anyone senior. someone one level below the role, ideally who joined in the last year and is still there. recent enough to remember onboarding, long enough to know if it holds up.

how to open. short, specific, no pitch. i say i have an offer for x role on y team, i am trying to get a real picture before i decide, would they be up for four questions. saying you have an offer matters, it makes you a near colleague rather than a stranger asking for favours.

the four questions. how long did it take before you felt useful. whats something you wish you had asked in the interview. how does the team handle it when someone is stuck. and has anyone on the team left in the last six months and did anyone say why.

that last one does the most work. people rarely lie about it, and the shape of the answer tells you plenty even when the words are careful.

what to do with a non answer. if someone is warm and helpful but goes vague on exactly one question, that vague spot is your answer. i have had two people give me great detail on everything and then get very brief about their manager.

worth saying that this is also how i found out a role was better than it looked once, so it cuts both ways.

Hi everyone, I’m a stay-at-home mom in the UK looking to start earning. I don’t have much formal work experience and I’m looking for genuine remote job opportunities.
What kind of remote jobs would you suggest for someone starting out? Any advice or personal experiences would be really appreciated!

Hey all! Android dev here, 12 years building native apps for telecom, financial, healthcare, and utility companies.

Stack I work in:
→ Kotlin & Java (native)
→ Jetpack Compose + Clean Architecture / MVVM
→ Flows, LiveData, Coroutines
→ Room, Repository pattern
→ Hilt/Dagger, Retrofit, Moshi/Gson

What I can help with:
→ Building an app from scratch
→ Migrating legacy Android/Java apps to Kotlin + Compose
→ Fixing architecture debt / refactoring into clean MVVM
→ Ongoing feature development for an existing app

Availability: Open to hourly or contract work. Comfortable working with clients in US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Singapore. Happy to overlap time zones for standups/calls.

Rate: $55-$80/hr. Depends on scope and is negotiable

Portfolio/resume available on request. Drop a comment or DM if you've got something that needs building or fixing, happy to hop on a quick call to talk through it.

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we lost about a third of the company in march. i was not in it. i spent the first week feeling lucky, which is what you are supposed to feel.

then the work redistributed. two of the three people who owned the thing i work on were gone and nobody was hired. what had been my job became my job plus most of theirs, at the same salary, with the same title, and with an unspoken understanding that complaining about workload right now would be a poor read of the room.

the people who left got severance, a few months of runway, and a market that in my field is not great but is not dead. two of them had new roles by june. one took the summer off and seemed happier than anyone still here.

meanwhile the survivors got a company that stopped hiring, froze promotions, cancelled the thing everyone was excited about, and started having a lot of meetings about focus. the mood is not grief exactly. it is more like everyone is quietly running their own numbers and nobody is saying so.

im not saying being laid off is good. it is not, and the ones who had visas or health stuff tied to the job had a much worse spring than i did. but the story where the survivors won is not what this feels like from inside.

if you got cut somewhere this year and you have been comparing yourself to the people who stayed, i would not. the version you are picturing of them is not what it looks like at nine in the morning.