Starting Up Hustling Hard for Happiness 49% of all working days lost in 2016-2017 were due to work-related stress, depression or anxiety. Let’s take a moment to think about that for a second. Work is the single biggest
Remote Insights Living Life as a Remote Worker's Better Half! As the wife of a HelpDocs remote worker, I've read many blog posts that talk about what it’s like to work remotely. A quick Google search returns pages and pages of listicles
Starting Up Breaking the Bad Habit of Breaking Habits Around 18 months ago, I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror, and it made me feel sick. A couple of years before, I'd quit a 14-year smoking habit, and had replaced
Remote Insights Rediscovering Work-life Balance: What I Learned While Honeymooning in a Swedish Airbnb Regular readers and followers on Twitter might have already picked up on my love of balance. The Swedes have a word for this, Lagom, which roughly translates to something like “just enough”, or
Remote Insights Delusions of Culture: Making Remote Work as a Small Team Since working at HelpDocs the past few months, I’ve become a pro at explaining what remote work is and how it works. So much so, I’m thinking of adding it to my CV under “additional skills”.
Remote Insights Actually, Distractions Aren't a Bigger Problem for Remote Work As I write the bulk of this post, I'm sat at my desk, tucked in a nook in the dining room of the Grade II listed country cottage I rent with my partner.
Remote Insights Not All Remote Jobs Are Equal When I began working remotely full-time in 2015, years of occasional freelancing had skewed my expectations. I'd become convinced life would be greener if I were only freed from the shackles of the