👋 Hi hunters! Holloway has been a distributed company since employee #2. We’ve experienced the challenges and benefits of working with remote teams first-hand, and six months ago we set out to assemble the ultimate guide on working from home (or anywhere else). We researched over 900 pieces of source material and worked with over 30 contributors—including experts from GitLab, Remote, AngelList, Trello, Doist, and many more—to build a practical Guide to helps managers and employees of remote or distributed companies thrive. Inside the Guide, you’ll find 34 in-depth sections covering a wide range of topics, from hiring to onboarding, mental health to legal and tax issues. Plus, an amazing table of the best tools for remote teams! Reading on Holloway gives you a distraction-free, interactive format to help you find what you need, when you need it, right in your browser. Digital access to a Guide also means access to ongoing new content, curated commentary from experts and readers, and features like search, highlighting, and bookmarks. Purchase the guide: https://www.holloway.com/g/remot... We'll be sure to answer your questions all day long!

Having been able to check out a review copy I can honestly say this is one of the best investments you can make whether you're new to remote work or leading remote teams. Truly unparalleled quality.

I helped collaborate periodically on this guide and to see the team thoroughly research/write this was impressive. This is by far the most comprehensive guide to remote work you will find online. I would strongly recommend anyone who is working remotely (i.e. - everyone) to get this.

Big fan of Holloway's products and refer the products out to junior folks on the teams I consult with... and also refer them out to all their bosses. Ha!

One of my favorite conversations about remote work was with the Holloway team. This in-depth guide covers just about everything you need to know related to remote work. It goes beyond the free content that's out there. And it's affordable too. Check it out!

I’ve been quite impressed with Holloway’s publications so far (equity and recruiting) - robust and approachable. This one is sorely needed right now.

I was given the opportunity to contribute and edit portions of this incredible resource. Holloway's journalistic approach to creating a comprehensive guide to understanding remote work is commendable. It's no small feat to cover all stages of remote, including hybrid-remote and all-remote structures. Essentially every modern company is already remote to a degree — this guide enables them to embrace that reality and thrive.

This comprehensive guide covers all the bases of working remotely and is a valuable resource for anyone who works from home. Thanks for giving us the tools and guidance to be successful in this strange new world we're all living in now.

It is so incredibly thorough and filled with actual practical advice, instead of the usual broad brush stroke platitude that are essentially useless. Good work!

Learn from the best--those who have been working remotely, but also hacking it to make it more human and humane. This guide is full of great guidance, knowledge, and is carefully edited and created to give the reader the most flexibility (sometimes you need a quick refresher on a topic and search is so easy!).

Holloway has found the folks who are the most passionate and expert on remote work to create this amazing stand-alone Guide. What makes it extra special is that the names behind this didn't have to pull this Guide together - they *wanted* to because they believe strongly in remote work - and the product speaks for itself. I had the pleasure to work with the Holloway team (h/t @courtneynash ) to provide a bit of editorial support and to research 200+ remote tools/companies to share with readers. Don't take my word for it - check it out yourself: if you're a remote worker, manager, or leader, the Guide is packed to the gills with info you can use.

I was skeptical when this guide was announced months ago. Who needs another guide to remote work, I thought? Not only have the times changed (duh!) but it turns out the quality of this far surpasses your common conception of a "guide". Gob-shockingly easy to navigate, chock full o' useful information and backed by decades of experience(s) from a smorgasbord of co-creators. The Best of All Worlds.

I made the purchase. $35 is a great price if I am going to get a few good tips out of it. I respect the people shown in the credits, which is what enticed me to buy.

Good timing on this - very much needed across he board right now.

This is a fabulous book, and its title dramatically understates its scope — it's about remote work just like "The Grapes of Wrath" is actually about grapes. This is actually a book about how modern companies creates cultures, ways of working, from the formal to the informal, so that people can work together to achieve their goals. There is much to learn from this book, from its exhaustive research and statistics, and quotes from founders of some of the most recognized technology brands like Basecamp, GitLab, HashiCorp, and Zapier, and as well as storied organizations like Bonobos and the U.S. Navy SEALs. As a book that spans from the strategic to the tactical, and I highly recommend this book to anyone who has ever worked in an office — that is, I believe, everyone.

I am one of the makers on this product (I wrote the "how to be a successful remote worker" section) and this was easily the most research I have ever carried out for any guide or whitepaper. It was a pleasure. That's because Holloway guides are designed to provide super-helpful, focussed, practical advice backed up by robust science, extensive studies, and objective facts. Others here have already explained how useful the guide is from a remote work perspective, and I completely concur. I'm going to offer a slightly different viewpoint though, and pull back the curtain on the creation and writing process. Holloway guides very much start with the end reader in mind - this is clear from the creative direction, editorial support, and the ways that readers interact with the guides. Creative Direction @sparkszilla and his team at Holloway understands their audience, and exactly who is going to be reading their guides. From the start, the brief was to focus specifically on remote work businesses, leaders, managers, and employees. The emphasis is very much on "If someone needs to know how to do this, let's answer that question in a clear and concise way." This helps to make the guide as sharp as possible; you won't find any filler content here! Every statement we make in the guide needs to be backed up by solid research and citations. The idea is to provide an answer to a reader's question straight away, but also provide links to further reading so that our audience can dig deeper into particular remote work topics when they need to. Editorial Support @courtneynash and her team were excellent throughout, guiding us writers with gentle advice that polished the work until it's as good as it can be. It's not easy working with multiple creatives in a distributed team, across many timezones, but they did it with grace and style - you might even say they are experts in managing remote workers! The support material was very good as well, with extensive guidance on style guides, tone of voice, and strong editorial principles. You can read more about that here: https://www.holloway.com/g/edito... The writing and revision process was well-handled, and within the editorial principles, we were given considerable freedom to create the guide in the best possible way. We were able to use our writing expertise to create the right outline, to ensure a strong narrative and flow through the work, to make the information accessible and enjoyable to read, and to meet the intent of the reader. It’s also important that the content isn’t just the work and viewpoint of a particular writer. That’s why we carried out extensive interviews with remote work experts, gathering perspective and context for the writing. These really help to illuminate the guide and make it relevant to people. Interacting with the Guides Another important aspect of Holloway is how readers access the guides themselves. Although the guides are downloadable as a PDF, it's through using the Holloway Reader that our audience will get the most value from the work. The Holloway Reader is designed to let people read effortlessly through the work, providing iconography to highlight key points, extensive bookmarking options for areas you want to refer to, links to citations, sources, and other parts of the guide, and definitions of the terms we're using. The formatting is very clear and straightforward: Plenty of whitespace to make it a pleasure to read, extensive use of headings, bulletpoints, and lists to make information bite-sized, scannable, and easy to digest. Bringing it All Together I mention these areas because you only get a great end product if you have the right product development process: Flexible, collaborative, focussed on the end-user, and with a clear goal. Although every maker has a different process, here’s what that meant for me: - Three rounds of reviews on the outline to ensure it was always meeting the audience’s intent. - Drafting of a more comprehensive, filled-in outline with the key points for each. - Reading and researching dozens of studies, surveys, articles, academic documents, and other perspectives on remote working. - Conducting interviews with experts on remote working and integrating answers into the writing. - Including relevant, objective information from research into the draft. - Writing of around 9,000 words, ensuring good structure, narrative, and flow. - Inclusion of multiple citations, links, definitions, and more (I lost count!) - Self-editing of draft content with the end-reader in mind. - Three rounds of reviews, revisions, and amends on the draft to ensure it was just right. - Final proofreading by Holloway. - They then took the work and integrated it into the final remote working guide. This was, of course, a very collaborative time! Hopefully, the effort we all put in is reflected in the remote work guide and the value you will get from it. As a freelance writer, I am lucky enough to work with some awesome clients. Holloway went above and beyond to build an environment where we could nurture our most creative work. That’s echoed in the final product, and I would encourage anyone with an interest in remote work to start with this guide.

Very cool @chuckreynolds. Love all the love the remote community is getting. Just wrote an article based on Buffer and HubSpot remote work reports and wish I had seen this. Oh well, next blog

Not something I need right now, but looks like the type of guide I'd want to have for establishing a remote team. Will bookmark