Awesome Remote Job

A curated list of awesome remote working resources.

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Table of Contents

• Articles & Posts
• Videos
• Books
• Job boards
• Housing
• Events
• Newsletters
• Podcasts
• Companies with “remote DNA”
• Remote Moonlighting
• Q&A
• Communities
• Conferences
• Tools
  • Project managment
  • Communication
• Law & Finance
• Others

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Articles & Posts

1. 10 Lessons from 4 Years Working Remotely at Automattic
2. 10 Secrets to Becoming a Great Remote Developer
3. 30 Tips for Successful Communication as a Remote Worker
4. 5 Tricks to Get More Done While Working Remotely
5. Acceptance of Telecommuting Project Management Grows
6. Andreessen-Incubated Teleport Aims To Make Location Irrelevant For Mobile Workers
7. Bosses without borders: Essential tools for managing remote workers
8. Calculate how much you could save by telecommuting to work
9. Communication for Distributed Teams
10. Death of the office and rise of the telecommuter
11. For Some, Home=Office
12. Give people the freedom of where to work
13. Hiring Secrets Of A Distributed Company
14. How GitHub Works
15. How many companies are 100% distributed? (Research Summary)
16. How many people really work from home? (research summary)
17. How We Went Remote (archive.org video from OSCON 2014 presentation)
18. How Working at Home Works (For Us)
19. It’s Unclearly Defined, but Telecommuting Is Fast on the Rise

20. [Latest Telecommuting Statistics

    Global Workplace Analytics](http://www.globalworkplaceanalytics.com/telecommuting-statistics)

21. Learning From Distributed Companies
22. Managing a Geographically Dispersed Team: Achieving Your Goals Together, While Apart
23. Michael Bloomberg agrees with Marissa Mayer on telecommuting
24. My Ideal Day as a Remote Programmer: Taking Charge of Your Daily Routine
25. One day offices will be a thing of the past
26. Remote worker vs distributed team
27. Remote Workers Log More Hours and Are Slightly More Engaged
28. Remote Working – 3 Year Retrospective
29. Rethinking Agile in an office-less world
30. Six Strategies for Managing Telecommuters
31. Solo Workers Bond at Shared Workspaces
32. Team Knowledge and Coordination in Geographically Distributed Software Development
33. The Complete Remote Work Toolset For Distributed Teams
34. The future of telecommuting: Corralling the Yahoos
35. The Pros & Cons of Being a Remote Team (& How We Do It)
36. To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home
37. What is a Distributed Company?
38. Why Coworking Is a Hit for Telecommuters and Entrepreneurs
39. Why Marissa Mayer’s ban on remote working at Yahoo could backfire badly
40. Why moonlighting will change your career
41. Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged
42. Why Small Businesses Are Building Remote Workforces
43. Why We (Still) Believe in Working Remotely
44. ‘Working From Home’ Without Slacking Off
45. Working Outside the Box: A Study of the Growing Momentum in Telework
46. Working Remotely for Extroverts
47. Yahoo, Best Buy, and Telecommuting: Advice From A Distributed Company
48. Your Commute Is Killing You
49. [21 tools that will help your remote team work better together] (http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/12/06/tools-remote-teams/)
50. How to run a team of people who never see each other
51. Who Needs an Office? How to Go 100 Percent Remote.
52. Remote Work: How to work the Precision Nutrition way

Videos

1. Jason Fried: Why work doesn’t happen at work

Books

1. Remote. Office Not Required. (bibliography)
2. The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work
3. The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work (bibliography)

Job boards

1. Angel List Job Type -> Remote OK
2. Authentic Jobs
3. Careers Stackoverflow
4. Dribbble Jobs
5. Flexjobs
6. Front-end Developer Jobs View as table, then sort by performed
7. Golangprojects filter -> Remote only
8. Hasjob Location filter -> “Anywhere/Remote”
9. HN hiring filter REMOTE
10. JOBBOX.io filter -> Remote only
11. Jobmote
12. Jobspresso * High-quality remote positions that are open and legitimate *
13. Jobs Remotely Jobs + Resumes
14. No Fluff Jobs filter -> “remote”
15. Nomad Jobs
16. Remote Coder
17. Remote OK - scrapes many job board feeds for remote positions
18. [RemoteWorkHunt] (http://www.remoteworkhunt.com/)
19. Remotive Jobs
20. Virtual Vocations
21. weworkremotely.com
22. WFH.io
23. Working Nomads
24. upwork

Housing

1. Worldpackers - Housing/work exchange
2. Caravanserai - Global network of coliving spaces
3. Nomad House - Global network of nomad housing
4. The Blue House - Startup house & coliving space in Morocco
5. Work From Bali - Coliving space in Bali
6. Coworking in the Sun - Coliving & coworking space in Tenerife island in Spain
7. bedndesk - Coworking & coliving space in Mallorca island in Spain
8. Coworkation - Coworking & vacation in Colombia
9. Nomad Pad - Global network of coliving spaces
10. Working Retreat - Coliving space in Thailand
11. NoHatDigital - Coliving space in Mexico
12. Sun Desk - Coliving & coworking space in Taghazout, Morocco.
13. Campus - Network of coliving spaces (Currently US only)
14. Blackbox - Coliving space in Silicon Valley
15. Hus24 - Coliving space in Sweden
16. Nest Copenhagen - Coliving space in Copenhagen, Denmark.
17. The Surf Office - Coworking & vacation space in Portugal, Canaries and California.
18. 47RONIN - Coliving space in Kyoto, Japan.
19. nomadicHUB - Coliving & coworking spaces in exotic locations.
20. Sende - Coliving & coworking space in northern Spain.

Events

1. Remote Year - Travel & work with interesting people for a year.
2. deceler8 - 10 days retreat
3. Coworking Camp - Worldwide temporary coworking Spaces.
4. Project Getaway - 30 days retreat

Newsletters

1. Working Nomads - job posts
2. Remote Digest - job posts
3. Remote Internships
4. Remotive - productive remote workers - A weekly newsletter on Remote Tips & Jobs sent to 3,000+ Remote Workers

Podcasts

1. Lessons from Distributed Companies
2. Wide Teams - Each episode a one-on-one interview with a remote worker taking about workflow and practices

Companies with “remote DNA”

1. Articulate - EdTech. Makes software that helps teachers make e-learning courses. Ruby. Node. C# and .NET for Windows app.
2. Automattic - Makers of WordPress.com and Gravatar.
3. BaseCamp - Project management software.
4. Basho - Creators of Riak, an open source platform and k/v database. We code in Erlang and hang out on clouds. Everyone works remote and gets together a few times a year at HQ in Seattle.
5. Bluespark Labs - WebDev Consulting and makers of Roomify. Remote team with HQs in Raleigh, NC and Italy. Drupal.
6. Buffer - Tools to help manage social media. PHP, CodeIgniter, MongoDB, Memcache, Backbone.js, React.js, Grunt.js, LESS, and Python.
7. Canonical - Ubuntu.
8. Catalyze - HIPAA-compliant cloud computing for healthcare. HQ in Madison, WI. Docker, Go, Python.
9. Chef - We are all about IT automation for speed and awesomeness. Ruby, JavaScript & shell scripting. HQ in Seattle but we have employees all around US.
10. CircleCI - Provides continuous integration tools and services.
11. Collabora - Open source software-based consulting.
12. Compose - Managing databases as a service. Distributed team with offices in San Meteo, CA and Birmingham, AL.
13. DataStax - Consulting based on Apache Cassandra.
14. DuckDuckGo - Search engine.
15. Etsy - Marketplace for artists. MySQL, Memcache, PHP. Offices in Dublin, Paris, San Francisco, New York, London and Melbourne.
16. Eyeo - Maker of AdBlock Plus. Main office in Cologne, Germany.
17. Fog Creek - NY-based software company. Makers of bug-tracking and source control tools. Workday must overlap New York afternoons (1700 - 2200 GMT)
18. Ghost - Publishing platform.
19. Gitbook - Publishing toolchain based on git. Javascript, node.js, Go.
20. GitHub
21. GitLab - Competitor to GitHub.
22. Harvest - Time tracking software.
23. Healthfinch - Making Healthcare systems more usable. HQ in Madison, WI, USA. Ruby, Javascript.
24. Heap – Web & Mobile Analytics, 2 of our 8 teammates are remote.
25. Heroku - PaaS Cloud, makes devs’ experience awesome, Ruby, Erlang, Javascript, Golang, Python.
26. Honeybadger - Ruby. 100% remote.
27. Igalia - Open source consultancy. HQ in Spain.
28. Inpsyde GmbH - WordPress Agency in Germany
29. Khan Academy - EdTech. Non-profit focusing on K-12 STEM. Less, React, Flux, Backbone, jQuery, Python, Google App Engine, Swift, and Objective-C.
30. Librato - Cloud Monitoring.
31. Lincoln Loop - WebDev shop.
32. LivingSocial - Company-wide support for teams of experienced, remote developers. Lots of autonomy.
33. Lullabot - Strategy, design and development using Drupal.
34. Mapbox - Map integration tools for various platforms.
35. Modern Tribe - A digital agency with a modern twist. All freelancers. All experts.
36. Mozilla - Firefox.
37. Next Big Sound - Analytics and Insights for the Music Industry.
38. NodeSource - NodeSource is dedicated to creating a sustainable ecosystem for Node.js.
39. OpenCraft - Open edX development (Free Software MOOC project)
40. Precision Nutrition - Online Nutrition Coaching and Certification
41. Railsdog - eCommerce solutions and integrations based on Spree (Ruby on Rails). Most team members are distributed including development, project management, and executive roles.
42. RebelMouse - Social publishing platform. Python, JS & iOS/Android developers. All over the world team.
43. Red Hat
44. RightScale
45. Scrapinghub
46. Simple
47. SoftwareMill
48. StackExchange
49. Soostone
50. Sqwiggle
51. Strongloop
52. Surevine
53. Sysdig Cloud
54. Teleport
55. Toggl
56. Toptal
57. Trello
58. Twin Technologies
59. Wikimedia
60. X-Team
61. Zapier

Remote Moonlighting

1. Gittask - Development tasks you can work on remotely

Q&A

• StackExchange
  • Workplace: telecommute
  • Freelancing: remote / working from home
  • Programmers: telecommuting / home
• Quora: Telecommuting and Working Remotely / Virtual Workplace / Working at Home

Communities

• /r/telecommuting - subreddit
• ##remotes - IRC channel (web access).
• Hacker Paradise - traveling hackers
• #nomads - Slack community for nomadic working, $30 signup fee
• Nomadler - Hacker News for nomads.

Conferences

1. DNX Global - Digital Nomad Conference.
2. Yonder - A round table conference bringing together leaders of distributed companies.

Tools

Communication

• Appear.in browser-based, pluginless group video calls
• Codeshare.io browser-based mult-user live code sharing with optional video chat
• Flowdock browser-based group chat for teams. Integrates with GitHub, Jira, Jenkins etc.
• Hangout chat system, share desktop and video calls.
• Hipchat great internal chat for hackers.
• IRCCloud browser-based IRC client with permanent storage
• Precursor - Simple prototyping & brainstorming web app with real-time collaboration.
• ScreenHero - Real-time, HD screen sharing for collaboration in teams.
• Skype video calls.
• Slack chat system with loads of integration options
• Sqwiggle Online Collaboration Software for Remote and Virtual Teams.
• Fleep - Internal chat and collaboration tool for development teams

Project managment

• Trello - lean project boards.
• Asana - Project management good for distributed teams
• Pinitto.me - Lightweight realtime infinite virtual corkboard application (open source)

Others

• Coffitivity - Coffitivity recreates the ambient sounds of a cafe to boost your creativity and help you work better.

Law & Finance

US based companies can hire remote workers as 1099 contractors.

Others

• LiquidSpace - Daily & Hourly Office & Meeting Room Rental.
• Nomad List - Compare cost and quality of living in different cities.
• Regus USA - Executive suites, virtual offices & conference room space.
• Remote Companies on Careers SO
• WorkFrom - Find coffee shops that are good to work from
• Hacker Spaces - list of hacker spaces