What is a Remote Team?

How do you get a “remote team“? And what does “remote” mean anyway? Is it different timezones, geographic distribution? Must there be at least one digital nomad sitting at the beach at any given time? Is it that standups happen with Zoom? Or maybe you have to get rid...

Challenging Team Habits

We just threw away a regular meeting. And no one is missing it (yet). How on Earth did we do a meeting that apparently no one needed? Don’t worry—all went according to plan. Here is why. Our meetings, before We’re a remote team, but we’re not fully...

Fixing Unlimited Vacation

We at engageSPARK have an unlimited vacation policy. It sounds good, right? Or … too good to be true? Unlimited vacation isn’t without controversy. Today we’re fixing one of the issues for us, and I’ll explain our thinking behind it. Problems with...

Remote Teams: Beware Bad Office Habits

Bad Office Habits can creep into remote teams just fine. A proud and happy remote worker, I didn’t realize this until I read on reddit a couple of days ago that Slack is “asynchronish”. That’s to say asynchronous … but not quite. That got me thinking....