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🤘 Your #1 remote work question
Hi Reader,
Tonight, I'm joining a small gathering of remote work enthusiasts in Amsterdam. A group of 30 fellow founders is gathering to enjoy good pizza while interviewing Job van der Voort. The session is organized by the Dutch management platform MT/Sprout.
Job is the CEO of Remote.com, a company that provides its clients the opportunity to easily hire employees all around the world. It prides itself on taking the hassle out of international payrolling, compliance, and taxes. This so-called unicorn (with a market value of €3 billion during its last investment round in March '22) employs 1,100 people.
As you might have guessed, everyone in the company works fully remote. All in all, he's the perfect person to talk to if you want to learn all about remote work.
I know most of you are, just like me, remote work enthusiasts. At the same time, we all realize that it's not an easy thing to get right.
So… to make sure you can learn from Job van der Voort and Remote.com's journey too, I'm inviting you to share your most pressing 'remote work' questions.
I'll pick out a few, ask them to Job tonight, and share the answers in my next newsletter.
Simply share your questions by replying to this email.
(I promise I'll read all your emails, but please don't wait for an answer this time. I expect quite a few replies.)
New article
A new article has been published on our blog earlier this week:
- The Corporate Rebels Handbook: Goal-Setting (and Celebrating Successes)
This week we published another post in our series on 'how we work at Corporate Rebels.' In this specific post, I share the process we've set up around goal setting and celebrating success. Read this post if you're interested in how to avoid top-down target setting while still leveraging the fun (and power) of tracking progress and celebrating achievements. Read it here.
What inspired us this week
Here's something noteworthy we discovered this past week that you’re going to love:
- Podcast with Job van der Voort & Darren Murph (Head of Remote @ GitLab)
An insightful conversation between Job van der Voort and Darren Murph. With a shared work history at GitLab and a wealth of experience in remote work environments, this is a must-listen for those interested in turning remote work into the beauty it can be. Listen to ‘The Remote Show’ here.
Your weekly challenge
At Corporate Rebels, we believe that small changes lead to big results. That's why we challenge you each week to make a small but significant change. This week....
Best of luck!
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