At Icalia Labs we are strong believes to have a remote culture for every member at team, and we are always finding ways to improve and promote the culture among everyone regarding their location.
Here are a couple of guidelines that every member at Icalia who is remote must follow:
- Choose your spot wisely when being remote
- Say hi to everyone on the mornings, #happiness channel is a good fit for this.
- Say goodbye once you are off the work, just to let know the team you won't be as available as expected.
- Be online at Slack at all times, or at least when you are available
- Try to answer as fast as possible for a message
- Look for pinned messages at slack in #general, they are important ones
- Let the team know whenever you are unavaible(eating time, power nap, to take a walk)
- Schedule your day with google calendar, that way it will be easir to know if you are busy for some reason
- It is ok to be offline for a couple of hours, just let the team know you'll be off
- Use slack channels only for the purpose of their creation, whether is to share knowledge or a bunch of gifs
- On remote calls be at least 10 minutes early, it is a good way to test the quality, sounds and microphone
- Enable your camera on remote calls
- Be kind when writing
- When having a remote call, plan the agenda for it
- When scheduling a meeting, specify whether is a video call or on premises
- Screenhero - https://screenhero.com
- TeamViewer - https://www.teamviewer.com/en/
- Floobits - https://floobits.com
- MotePair - https://atom.io/packages/motepair
- SubEthaEdit - https://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/
- Tmux - https://robots.thoughtbot.com/love-hate-tmux
- Tmux + Vim - https://www.netguru.co/blog/what-s-a-pair-to-do-pair
- Zoom - https://zoom.us
- Google Hangouts - hangouts.google.com
- Slack - https://slack.com
- Cloud9 - https://c9.io