Remote working

Communication. It's faster and easier to work when your next to each other. Tool like Figma & Slack give us a good way to make good work in remote.

To be honest I love remote working, and I don't really have many challenges in terms of actually doing the work. But I do struggle to fit enough exercise into my routine, I used to cycle to and from the office back when I worked in one and I miss that!

Correct distribution of the working day

Prioritize tasks.

I'm not good at organizing my day ... cooking, cleaning the house, personal affairs, working moments. Sometimes I feel like a day is wasted...

The biggest challenge for me when working / learning remotely is the lack of physical human contact. I will always prefer talking face-to-face to Zoom calls, team work in a library over shared Google Slides and so on. + onboarding new team members is a process in itself as well. I feel the inevitable detachment people experience (unable to hear the banter of coworkers or feel out the overall company atmosphere for instance) due to working separately is quite unfortunate..

Not having someone next to me I could just bug every few minutes to ask for advice or help. At home I would need to message, maybe book a time, take into consideration technical issues and delays, wait for any kind of response. Granted, some of these things are true for office-work too, but when comparing with remote work then these come in find first.

In my career, the biggest challenge has been getting buy-in from the Executives and Management chain. If they just don't like remote work and want you in the office, it ends up being nothing more than a frustrating experiment. Other than that, trying to build separation between work life and personal life can be challenging which is why a lot of people complain about burn out. Work is always just a tab away.

For me, it is communicating with team members.

Learning stuff without anyone right next to me to help me out!