Awesome Remote Job

A curated list of awesome remote working resources.

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Articles & Posts

1. Why We (Still) Believe in Working Remotely
2. My Ideal Day as a Remote Programmer: Taking Charge of Your Daily Routine
3. Remote worker vs distributed team
4. Six Strategies for Managing Telecommuters
5. Why Small Businesses Are Building Remote Workforces
6. Rethinking Agile in an office-less world
7. Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged
8. Team Knowledge and Coordination in Geographically Distributed Software Development
9. Managing a Geographically Dispersed Team: Achieving Your Goals Together, While Apart
10. The Pros & Cons of Being a Remote Team (& How We Do It)
11. To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home
12. Andreessen-Incubated Teleport Aims To Make Location Irrelevant For Mobile Workers
13. Acceptance of Telecommuting Project Management Grows
14. Death of the office and rise of the telecommuter
15. Why Coworking Is a Hit for Telecommuters and Entrepreneurs
16. Bosses without borders: Essential tools for managing remote workers
17. The Complete Remote Work Toolset For Distributed Teams
18. 10 Lessons from 4 Years Working Remotely at Automattic
19. The future of telecommuting: Corralling the Yahoos
20. It’s Unclearly Defined, but Telecommuting Is Fast on the Rise
21. Remote Workers Log More Hours and Are Slightly More Engaged
22. Working Outside the Box: A Study of the Growing Momentum in Telework
23. Calculate how much you could save by telecommuting to work
24. 'Working From Home' Without Slacking Off
25. Michael Bloomberg agrees with Marissa Mayer on telecommuting
26. Latest Telecommuting Statistics | Global Workplace Analytics
27. Your Commute Is Killing You
28. Give people the freedom of where to work
29. For Some, Home=Office
30. One day offices will be a thing of the past
31. Solo Workers Bond at Shared Workspaces
32. Why Marissa Mayer’s ban on remote working at Yahoo could backfire badly
33. How many companies are 100% distributed? (Research Summary)
34. How many people really work from home? (research summary)
35. How We Went Remote (archive.org video from OSCON 2014 presentation)
36. Remote Working – 3 Year Retrospective

Books

1. Remote. Office Not Required. (bibliography)
2. The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work (bibliography)

Job boards

1. Angel List Job Type -> Remote OK
2. Authentic Jobs
3. Careers Stackoverflow
4. Front-end Developer Jobs View as table, then sort by performed
5. HN hiring filter REMOTE
6. IT Flow
7. JOBBOX.io filter -> Remote only
8. Jobs Remotely
9. No Fluff Jobs filter -> "remote"
10. Nomad Jobs
11. Remote Coder
12. Remote Hackers
13. weworkremotely.com
14. WFH.io

Newsletters

1. Working Nomads - job posts
2. Remote Digest - job posts

Companies with "remote DNA"

Currently hiring:

1. Articulate
2. Automattic
3. BaseCamp
4. Basho
5. Buffer
6. Canonical
7. Chef - We are all about IT automation for speed and awesomeness. Ruby, JavaScript & shell scripting. HQ in Seattle but we have employees all around US.
8. CicleCI
9. Collabora
10. DataStax
11. DuckDuckGo
12. Etsy
13. Everlane
14. Eyeo
15. Fog Creek
16. Github
17. GitLab
18. Harvest
19. Healthfinch - Making Healthcare systems more usable. HQ in Madison, WI, USA. Ruby, Javascript.
20. Heap
21. Heroku - PaaS Cloud, makes devs' experience awesome, Ruby, Erlang, Javascript, Golang, Python.
22. Igalia
23. Khan Academy
24. Librato
25. Lincoln Loop
26. LivingSocial - Company-wide support for teams of experienced, remote developers. Lots of autonomy.
27. Mapbox
28. Mozilla
29. Next Big Sound - Analytics and Insights for the Music Industry.
30. RebelMouse - Social publishing platform. Python, JS & iOS/Android developers. All over the world team.
31. Red Hat
32. RightScale
33. Simple
34. SoftwareMill
35. StackExchange
36. Soostone
37. Sqwiggle
38. Strongloop
39. Toggl
40. Trello
41. Twin Technologies
42. Wikimedia
43. Zapier

Q&A

• StackExchange
  • Workplace: telecommute
  • Freelancing: remote / working from home
  • Programmers: telecommuting / home
• Quora: Telecommuting and Working Remotely / Virtual Workplace / Working at Home

Communities

• /r/telecommuting - subreddit
• ##remotes - IRC channel (web access).

Tools

• Communication
  • Appear.in browser-based, pluginless group video calls
  • Hangout video calls.
  • Hipchat great internal chat for hackers.
  • IRCCloud browser-based IRC client with permanent storage
  • Skype video calls.
  • Slack chat system with loads of integration options
  • Sqwiggle Online Collaboration Software for Remote and Virtual Teams.
• Project managment
  • Trello - lean project boards.

Law & Finance

US based companies can hire remote workers as 1099 contractors.

Others

• LiquidSpace - Daily & Hourly Office & Meeting Room Rental.
• Nomad List - Compare cost and quality of living in different cities.
• Regus USA - Executive suites, virtual offices & conference room space.