As the world moves to a more remote workforce, businesses across industries and markets are having to adapt. We asked leaders who have experience with making remote work effective to share their stories, lessons, and insights with us.

Lara Schmoisman

The Darl has been a remote agency since the company’s inception, so our whole team works 100% remotely. Although we have our office headquarters located in Calabasas, California, our team is formed of more than 30 people scattered around the world. The use of new tools, software, and all kinds of digital assets gave us the opportunity to keep our operations running. Some people had to modify or alternate them, but it prevented many companies from shutting down. This would never happen 10 years ago. Read more>>

Tyler Riddell

Remote work is built into the DNA of my company, Something Good Consulting Group, and the company I work for, NexGen Technologies, LLC. Something Good Consulting Group was founded out of a home office, and we, the partners, still work from our home offices. Before the pandemic, we really did not need an office. Our customers always requested to see us at their offices, or we would schedule a conference call. Post-pandemic, everything went to video conferencing, but we found an interesting solution through Walkabout Workplace, a virtual real estate platform. Read more>>

Kara Lynch Guthrie

I have worked from home for the last decade. When covid hit, we were poised and ready to elevate our business model in my wellness company. We already had the infrastructure of presenting and meeting on zoom in place, we simply stepped it up. Where we used to have 1-2 daily zooms, we pivoted and went to 3-4 daily. We saw tremendous growth in 2020. Then things changed. We saw what we are calling “zoom fatigue.” People became tired of meeting on zoom. We had to diversify and luckily, things started opening up and people were open to meeting. in person again, usually in smaller groups. Read more>>