We asked leaders who’ve made remote-work effective at their organizations to share their stories, lessons, and insights with us below.

Mik Nuzzi

Looking back on 2019 and early 2020, Mik & Cookies has evolved immensely to adapt to a remote-work setting. Two years ago I was consistently hosting in-person cookie decorating workshops, traveling to different cities and reaching a wider audience. These classes were my main source of income; and I had big plans for more classes and more traveling into 2020. Read more>>

Lindsay Partridge

There are some professions that thrive in a remote environment. I believe that graphic design is absolutely a position that is most effective, to a business, when it is executed remotely. Ultimately, a company wants their audience to “feel” their brand. They want the visual representation to be accurate, memorable and unique. Read more>>

Larmarrous Shirley

Working remotely has been great for me. I am more productive working remotely than I was in the office. Besides needing to walk the dog a few times a day, I don’t have many distractions and I am good with scheduling, invoicing and deadlines. I have been able to retain more long-term contracts and work with people, issues and organizations I care about. Also, I have been able to spend more quality time at home and working on my personal projects as well. Read more>>

Meagan DeVane

Short answer. Setting and discipline. Working remotely is never easy, but you have to get your work done. No better way than to treat your home office space as the workplace and be disciplined enough to get it done. Tune out distractions. Read more>>

Rana Florida

For many industries remote-work is not an option, health care, retail, and bricks and mortar where you are providing customers with custom service. However for knowledge or creative workers, they can be quite productive working remotely, some might argue even more productive. COVID of course, accelerated the trend of remote work. Read more>>