Book Review: Remote

Grown Woman Book Review

This book promises to illuminate the many benefits of remote work, including access to the best talent, freedom from soul-crushing commutes, and increase productivity outside the traditional office. Above all, this book promises to teach you how to become an expert in remote work.

In all honesty, when this book came through my feed as a recommendation, I immediately downloaded it. I was excited (at this time of forced remote working) to read a book that would improve my expertise as a leader managing a remote team.

When I started reading it, I didn’t realize this book had been written in 2013. I can imagine that seven years ago this book was a bold, brilliant, and badass stance on remote working. Now it serves as a good overview for those who have never considered or tried to implement remote working.

It is a mixture of perspectives from both the employees’ and the employers’. While the world of remote working and the tech that facilitates has moved light years ahead in the last eight years, what’s disheartening is most of the challenges still exist.

If you are looking for state of the art concepts on remote working today, this is probably not the book, these guys were way ahead of their time 8 years ago. If you are looking to understand the basics and the challenges of remote working, this is a solid read.