Remote Work – Groove Blog https://www.groovehq.com/blog Fri, 20 Oct 2023 02:30:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 16 Advanced Zoom Tips for Better Video Meetings https://www.groovehq.com/blog/zoom-tips-and-tricks https://www.groovehq.com/blog/zoom-tips-and-tricks#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2020 08:32:29 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=69 As a 100% remote company, we rely on Zoom to communicate with our global team. Today, we’re sharing our favorite Zoom tips and tricks to help newly-remote teams get up to speed on video conferencing. We build customer support software here at Groove. We provide an inbox for customer service email collaboration, a knowledge base […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/zoom-tips-and-tricks/feed 67 4 Pros & Cons of Running a Remote Team (& How We Do It) https://www.groovehq.com/blog/being-a-remote-team https://www.groovehq.com/blog/being-a-remote-team#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2020 13:00:17 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=125 Working remotely has a lot of advantages, but it’s far from perfect. Here’s what we’ve learned in our journey as a remote team. Note: I wrote this post years ago (as you can see from the comments), but it seemed like a good time to update it as so many companies adjust to working from […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/being-a-remote-team/feed 71 47 Insanely Practical Work From Home Tips from Our 100% Remote Team https://www.groovehq.com/blog/work-from-home Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:00:31 +0000 https://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=8509 Last week, my wife and I decided we needed to stock up and hunker down. We’re washing our hands. We’re social distancing. We’re a bit anxious. But…we’re extremely fortunate. We haven’t lost our jobs. The business hasn’t gone under and we have a roof over our heads. I know it’s crazy right now. The health […]

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]]> The Manager’s Guide to Payroll and Taxes for Remote Workers https://www.groovehq.com/blog/working-remotely-taxes-payroll https://www.groovehq.com/blog/working-remotely-taxes-payroll#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=3697 Remote teams are the best. End of story. But payroll and taxes for them are not… Companies that have the entire world as their hiring ground have a serious competitive advantage over those that hire only in their vicinity. It’s not that we haven’t heard all the BS excuses managers come up with against remote […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/working-remotely-taxes-payroll/feed 6 18 Tools Our Remote Team Uses to Stay Connected, Productive and Sane https://www.groovehq.com/blog/remote-team-tools https://www.groovehq.com/blog/remote-team-tools#comments Thu, 06 Jul 2017 11:49:42 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=93 We’ve replaced a lot of the benefits of having a traditional office with online apps. Here are the ones we use daily. I never like to get caught up on tools. I think it’s far too easy to spend too much time thinking about which tool is better, when a better use of your time […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/remote-team-tools/feed 103 How Our Remote Team Manages Collaboration Across 9 Time Zones https://www.groovehq.com/blog/remote-work-across-time-zones https://www.groovehq.com/blog/remote-work-across-time-zones#comments Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:31:02 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=922 Being spread across the world has its pros and cons. Here’s how we deal with it. Last Tuesday, I was getting ready to wind down for the night, and I opened up Slack one final time to check for anything that needed my attention. What I saw, at almost 10:00 P.M., was one of my […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/remote-work-across-time-zones/feed 11 How We’ve Built a Remote Company Culture to Be Grateful For https://www.groovehq.com/blog/a-remote-culture-to-be-grateful-for https://www.groovehq.com/blog/a-remote-culture-to-be-grateful-for#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2016 13:26:46 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=1628 This Thanksgiving, I’m thinking about our team and how far we’ve come. Here’s what we’ve learned. I don’t get choked up often. But a few weeks ago, sitting at the dinner table with my wife, I couldn’t help myself. That morning, I had missed our team’s daily video check-in because of a doctor’s appointment. It […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/a-remote-culture-to-be-grateful-for/feed 7 The Most Common Questions About Building a Remote Team (Answered) https://www.groovehq.com/blog/most-common-questions-about-remote-work https://www.groovehq.com/blog/most-common-questions-about-remote-work#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:04:59 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=1243 Building a remote team isn’t the norm, and most founders have questions. Here’s some help. Being a remote team is no longer unusual or contrarian. Sure, the overwhelming majority of businesses are still colocated, but more and more of the founders I talk to are considering starting their next businesses as distributed teams, or even […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/most-common-questions-about-remote-work/feed 8 How We’ve Optimized Remote Team Meetings For Ultimate Efficiency https://www.groovehq.com/blog/how-to-optimize-remote-team-meetings https://www.groovehq.com/blog/how-to-optimize-remote-team-meetings#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2016 08:22:48 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=981 Meetings are often expensive and wasteful, but they don’t have to be. Here’s how we hacked ours. I shared a quote in last week’s post that struck a chord with some readers. It was about the true cost of meetings. If you’re going to schedule a meeting that lasts one hour and invite 10 people […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/how-to-optimize-remote-team-meetings/feed 22 The Most Common (Bad) Arguments Against Remote Work https://www.groovehq.com/blog/arguments-against-remote-work https://www.groovehq.com/blog/arguments-against-remote-work#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:47:11 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=1649 Distributed teams are getting more and more common, but too many businesses still cling to outdated assumptions For the last few years, our team has been living and breathing remote work. I’ve written about it time and time again, from the pros and cons, to the tools we use, to the all-in commitment required to […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/arguments-against-remote-work/feed 16 Why We’re Finally Committing 100% To Being A Remote Team https://www.groovehq.com/blog/being-committed-to-remote-work https://www.groovehq.com/blog/being-committed-to-remote-work#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2016 07:25:58 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=1673 While we’ve been a remote team for a while, I’ve been plagued by doubts. Here’s why we’re going all in. I’ve beaten the drum. I’ve promoted remote work all over this blog, and in dozens of interviews and articles around the internet. A lot of people see Groove as a loud advocate of remote work… […]

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