Author: Sami Kritz

Put your charm, good looks, and funny lunch banter aside. As a remote worker, you are mainly judged by your virtual interactions. Knowing how to formulate an email properly is essential for any professional; however, email etiquette for remote workers is even more crucial. Unfortunately, your tone of voice, body language, and facial expressions aren’t easily expressed in an email. Leave no room for misinterpretation by learning how to construct a professional email properly. Email etiquette for remote workers requires more precision, considering many of us haven’t met our coworkers in real life. Data from McKinsey Global Institute shows that…

Do you have difficulty focusing on one task for an extended period? Diagnosed or not, you may have adult ADHD. Instead of letting being a remote worker with ADHD hold you back from making deadlines, good impressions, and promotions, learn how to adjust your remote work routine to help your mind focus. The prefrontal cortex in people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) receives fewer norepinephrine transmitters, affecting their ability to concentrate and make decisions. The exact amount of time for each adult is different, but some can only concentrate on a task for five to thirty minutes before getting…

Bedroom, kitchen, office. For many remote workers, this is their daily commute. While working from home has many advantages, social isolation, lack of inspiration, and domestic distractions are a few of its downfalls. Third spaces counteract these disadvantages. With blurred lines between work and home, finding an enjoyable space to work without domestic distractions is increasingly difficult. A place that doesn’t expect anything of you, where you can concentrate, take a quick social break, and feel a sense of community, is what many remote workers are missing. Third spaces are popping up around the globe to fill the void. They…

You’ve finally secured your dream remote job, and the world is your oyster. If the time zones work, Europe is a great place to base yourself. However, you’ll need more than a tourist visa to work and live in Europe. Lucky for you, some digital nomad visas are pretty easy to secure. Whether you’re interested in moving abroad for a taste of new culture, food, and architecture or to take advantage of lower costs of living, digital nomad visas make this dream possible. With a tourist visa, most visitors can only stay in Schengen Area for up to 90 out…

With over 20 million active users, Slack is one of the fastest-growing business messaging apps. It streamlines communication between teams with ease. However, there are numerous Slack features that many remote teams aren’t taking advantage of, including canvases, reminders, huddles, and more. Since its launch in 2013, San Francisco-based business messaging app Slack (now part of Salesforce) has risen to stardom. Today, nearly 80% of Fortune 100 companies use Slack as their main point of communication with their teams. If you’ve been using this platform for a while, you’ve likely discovered Slack features like channels, away messages, statuses, and emojis.…

As companies update their stances on remote, hybrid, or in-office work, the world is noticing that men and women view remote work differently. Most women want to continue working remotely, while men are eager to return to the office. Over the past few years, 72% of women and 67% of men reported having a positive remote working experience. As positive as the experience was, men are quickly shuffling back into the office. Women, on the other hand, are happily continuing to work remotely, making us wonder: Why do men and women view remote work differently? It comes down to many…

Location-based pay has been a hot topic for many years. It comes from a place of logic, fairness, and good intentions. However, the lines have blurred now that many employees are able to work from the city of their choosing. Have you ever asked an employee how much they pay for rent, how much their home is worth, or how much their mortgage is during a job interview? No, because that is inappropriate and unrelated to the job listing. Some companies, like Gitlab, Lunchbox, and Buffer, scale their remote employees’ pay based on where they live. As you’ll find here,…

As a hiring manager, you make or break your company’s success. Unconscious bias in the hiring process makes teams less diverse and less productive. You need a structured hiring process that expels implicit bias from the equation to attract and hire the best employees. Even if you don’t think you have biases, research indicates you probably do. It’s something you might believe you don’t do, would never do, or feel is morally wrong, but it happens every day. We make quick judgments about a person, place, or thing based on our past experiences, stories we have heard, or other unconscious…

The idea behind a 4-day workweek is to be more productive, work less, and have more free time. This method has shown to be a valuable schedule change that promotes employee productivity and happiness while increasing company revenue. If you had to guess, out of the eight hours you spend working each day, how many hours do you spend productively? According to a study by Vouchercloud, the average answer is two hours and fifty-three minutes. Because we are conditioned to focus on time spent (productively or otherwise) instead of output, we often distract ourselves with other things instead of focusing…

Avid travelers know the enthralling feeling of arriving in a new city or country, meeting new people, hearing a new language, and indulging in local cuisine. But have you ever considered the long-term effects of your arrival? While the advantages typically overshadow the disadvantages, it’s important to recognize how digital nomads impact local communities. Anthony Bourdain once said, “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world, you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you.” Digital nomads typically enjoy slow travel, which allows…