Ep 56 - Toggl's Evelin Andrespok

Jeff Robbins interviews Evelin Andrespok, HR Manager at Toggl, about the ins-and-outs of managing a distributed team across cultures and countries.

Discussion topics…

• What’s the challenge in going from a co-located company to a distributed company?

• What is time zone empathy?

• Video vs audio for company calls

• Basing asynchronous communication around using Slack

• How many get-togethers does Toggl have each year?

• Getting (and staying) connected as a remote workforce

• Is it possible to avoid the common mistakes remote teams make?

• Which tools do you use for internal communication?

• What’s the difference between remote working and remote management?

• The importance of intentionality in all remote work communication

• Why management is done better in distributed companies than co-located companies

• How does culture play into remote work at Toggl?

• Which values matter most to distributed teams?

• How do you know if remote workers are actually working?

• Mastering the art of written communication

• Crowdsourcing as a way to identify what makes your company unique

• What’s in store for the future of distributed companies?

• Time zones, languages, and other assumptions we make around communication

• What to think about before you post a job description

• …and more!

Want to discuss your takeaways from this episode with us? We'd love to share ideas on Twitter @yonder_io! You can follow Evelin’s blog here on Medium.