Time Limit podcast • 47 episodes

Working Remotely

Now a full-time TeamGantt employee, Brett Harned joins Nathan Gilmore and John Correlli to talk about remote work: why TeamGantt has been remote since its basement days, what it does for focus and recruiting, and how to hire and manage people you rarely see in person. They share their interview approach, onboarding by pairing, one-on-ones, quarterly meetups and the daily check-in project they use instead of a stand-up.

Key takeaways

Remote work's biggest benefits are focus time, control of your environment and a much wider hiring pool.
Make the case to a skeptical boss by earning trust, proposing a time-boxed test and then showing results.
Hire remote people on written communication, a small unsupervised test project and video interviews.
Keep new hires from being isolated with pairing, regular one-on-ones and in-person meetups.
Set boundaries with family and friends at home and track daily progress to counter the feeling of isolation.

About this episode

Nathan, John, and Brett are back to talk about working remotely and how we handle a remote team at TeamGantt.