Remote Work Resources — By Categories

Ninan Thampy
6 min readApr 15, 2020

Last updated August 2022

Please find below a curated list of resources by categories published by fully remote companies:

For a list of curated comprehensive remote work guides please check out this post.

Table of Contents

1 Mental Health and Burnout in Remote Teams

2 Remote Wellness Services

3 Remote Compensation

4 Remote Hiring

5 Remote Onboarding

6 Remote Internal Communication Guidelines

7 Team Building and Social Connections

8 Remote Meetings

9 Remote Employee Resources

10 Remote Apps and Tools

11 Async Communication Guides

Because of COVID-19, I have moved the mental health category to the top:

1 Mental Health and Burnout in Remote Teams

Tips For Working Remotely And Combating Stress | By Liz + Mollie

A Tactical Guide for Individual Contributors and Managers for Weathering the Emotional Storms of a Crisis | By Liz + Mollie

7 Tips to Effectively Manage and Motivate Remote Employees | By leaderslíderes at Drift, Webflow, Gitlab, and Help Scout via Fellow

How to best support remote employees | By Know Your Team

Morale, Mental Health, and Burnout in Remote Teams | By HOLLOWAY

A Guide To Conquering Remote Work Loneliness | By Buffer an all-remote company with over 90 employees in 15 countries.

How to Avoid Burnout in a Remote Team | By Zapier an all-remote company with over 300 employees in 24 countries.

Combating burnout, isolation, and anxiety in the remote workplace | By GitLab one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with over 1,200 team members located in more than 65 countries.

Some employee wellness services recommended by Heather Doshay VP People at Webflow:

https://www.empowerwork.org/ Free and Confidential Support for Employees

workbravely.com/ + www.springhealth.com
www.lyrahealth.com + www.joinmodernhealth.com

Other resources:

Introduction to affordable therapy + 5 Mental Health Apps to Help Manage Coronavirus Anxiety

Remote Working 101

8 Lessons from the Best Remote Companies in the World | Advice from Automattic, GitLab, Buffer, Help Scout, and more.

4 Remote Hiring

Remote Hiring Guide For Startups | By Heather Doshay

How to Build a Fully Remote Interview Process | By Avery Francis

Hiring Guide — How to properly, efficiently, and effectively hire in an all-remote environment?| By GitLab one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with over 1,200 team members located in more than 65 countries.

How to Hire a Remote Team & | By Zapier an all-remote company with over 300 employees in 24 countries.

How We Hire: A Look Inside Our Hiring Process & Remote Hiring Process| By Buffer an all-remote company with over 90 employees in 15 countries.

12-Step Remote Hiring Process & Hiring and onboarding remote employees | By Help Scout is a remote-first company with over 110 employees in 80+ cities around the world.

The Remote Guide to Hiring | By doist a remote-first company with over 70 employees in 25 countries.

How to set up a successful remote hiring pipeline | By toggl a fully remote company with over 80 employees in 19 timezones.

Remote Work Hiring Guide | By We Work Remotely

Inside Netlify’s Virtual Interview Process | By netlify

How We Built Our Team | By shogun a fully remote with team members located in more than 21 countries.

Hotjar’s approach to hiring the right people | By SoapBox

How do the Automattic, GitLab and Zapier’s hiring pipelines work? |

5 Remote Onboarding

How to onboard new hires remotely & Onboarding Process | By GitLab one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with over 1,200 team members located in more than 65 countries.

A guide to onboarding remote employees | By Zapier an all-remote company with over 300 employees in 24 countries.

Step-By-Step Guide to Employee Onboarding [+Checklist] | By Help Scout is a remote-first company with over 110 employees in 80+ cities around the world.

Onboarding: How We Welcome New Teammates | By Buffer an all-remote company with over 90 employees in 15 countries.

A Guide to Remote Employee Onboarding | By TaxJar a fully remote company.

How to Onboard Remote Team Members | By By doist a remote-first company with over 70 employees in 25 countries.

How to onboard new members and set expectations | By toggl a fully remote company with over 80 employees in 19 timezones.

Onboarding Remote Teams | By We Work Remotely

Remote onboarding — tips for staying human | By sore

A Guide to Building a Winning Remote Employee Onboarding Process| By Avery Francis

6 Remote Internal Communication Guidelines

Informal Communication By GitLab one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with over 1,200 team members located in more than 65 countries.

Email vs Slack by GitLab one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with over 1,200 team members located in more than 65 countries.

How We Communicate by Basecamp, one of the most successful fully remote software productmercancías companies in the world.

Slack etiquette at Zapier by Zapier an all-remote company with over 300 employees in 24 countries.

Asynch Communication: The Real Reason Remote Workers Are More Productive by doist a remote-first company with over 70 employees in 25 countries

What Remote Companies Can Teach About Asynchronous Communication

The DACI framework helps you make group decisions efficiently and effectively by Atlassian

8 Remote Meetings

7 strategies for running effective remote meetings | By Zapier an all-remote company with over 300 employees in 24 countries.

Meeting Tips | By GitLab one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with over 1,200 team members located in more than 65 countries.

All Hands

How We Structure All Hands as a Fully Remote Team | By Buffer

9 Employee Resources

All-Remote and Remote-First Jobs and Remote Work Communities by Darren Murph via GitLab

Tips for Working Remotely and Combatting Stress by Liz + Molie

47 Practical Work From Home Tips by Groove a software company that has been 100% remote for the last 7 years

A guide on how to set up your remote working strategy by Erin Casali Product Experience Director at Automattic a distributed company with over 1,100 employees in 75 countries

10 Lessons from 4 Years Working Remotely at Automattic

How to Create A Remote Work Routine That Works | By Marcus Wermuth from Buffer

10 Remote Apps and Tools

2021 Remote Work Apps & Tools | By Friday

List of Tools and Gear | By Automattic a fully distributed company with over 1,100 employees in 75 countries.

12 Remote Work Tools Buffer | By Buffer an all-remote company with over 90 employees in 15 countries.

The 16 tools we use most at Zapier | By Zapier an all-remote company with over 300 employees in 24 countries.

Considerations for a Remote Workspace & Tools & Tips| By By GitLab one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with over 1,200 team members located in more than 65 countries.

The Digital Nomad’s Toolkit for Staying Productive | Via Help Scout is a remote-first company with over 110 employees in 80+ cities around the world.

Remote Working Tools to Copy from Automattic, Zapier & Buffer in 2020

Timezone Team View

12 Remote Benefits and Perks

https://bonus.ly/

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Ninan Thampy

Curating #Startup & #SMB Info | Career — Head of Finance HR + IT | NBA + F1 | Environment + Social Issues + Health