21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams

There are many valid reasons for resisting going remote in your team, but today we cover those reasons based on myths and common misconceptions about personalities suited to remote work and communication. visit We start with the one piece of often...

What factors in the workplace affect where we choose to work with others? Dr Kerstin Sailer and Ros Pomeroy from BrainyBirdz talk to Pilar about what they’re finding out in their experiments. visit What factors in the workplace affect where we...

We continue talking about co-working, this time with Bernie J. Mitchell, who tells us about engineering connections between members of co-working spaces. visit   From freelancing to supporting freelancers. The journey from visitor to key staff...

Have coworking spaces lost their initial purpose? Maya and Pilar discuss three recent articles about co-working: the diverse types of co-working spaces available, the move of corporations into the co-working space and whether blockchain might well...

Pilar talks to Dom Price from Atlassian about how to maintain a playful, collaborative mindset in a growing organisation. visit Introduction Pilar mentions these other podcast episodes that might be of interest: (with Brian Cervino from Trello) ...

There are some questions we ask ourselves when designing our physical collaboration space. We can use most of these questions to design our online collaboration space too. visit Pilar attended this event: The importance of the location of toilets in...

Fernando Polo describes his company’s journey towards salary transparency, and tells us why they’re moving towards self-setting salaries at Good Rebels. visit Pilar mentions this article about millenials and their attitude towards salary...

Current research suggests that having text-based debates can diminish our perception of the other person and that audio-only conversation can build more empathy than that involving also visual elements. What does this mean for virtual teams? visit ...

Laura Roeder, founder of Meet Edgar, talks about how her company is structured and the role that clarity and transparency play in ensuring the right culture-employee fit. visit What is Meet Edgar, why it was set up and how. Bootstrapping it,...

Pilar has a go at translating this great summary of the world of work, written by the Spanish organisation Future for Work Institute.  You can have a look at the original article here:  Don't forget to visit  for more on remote work. ...