Build With Heart and Balance, Remote Work Edition
- 1. AVI KNOLL | JSD (CLOUD) REMOTE DEVELOPER | ATLASSIAN
Build With Heart and Balance
Remote Work Edition
- 2. Agenda
Who am I? Who are you?
Check-up: How do you balance?
Remote work, how great is that?!1
| Let’s talk remote boundaries |
Measuring heart & balance
Check-in: Improving your balance!
- 3. Mobility
Living in two cities,
remote keeps me flexible
Who am I?
Balance
Loved ones, climate activism,
and building awesome
collaboration tools
Experience
Atlassian since 2014,
remote since 2019
- 5. Agenda
Who am I? Who are you?
Check-up: How do you balance?
Remote work, how great is that?!1
| Let’s talk remote boundaries |
Measuring heart & balance
Check-in: Improving your balance!
- 13. Agenda
Who am I? Who are you?
Check-up: How do you balance?
Remote work, how great is that?!1
| Let’s talk remote boundaries |
Measuring heart & balance
Check-in: Improving your balance!
- 14. Remote
Atlassians say:
“I have two hours back in
my day because I no
longer have to commute.”
“Able to better plan my
day and spend much
more time with my kids”
“Flexibility.”
- 15. 12%
CURRENTLY REMOTE (DEVS) WANT TO BE REMOTE
* Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019: https://
insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019
42%
- 16. 41.8% of developers say a
distracting work environment
is one of their “greatest
challenges to productivity.”
* Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019: https://
insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019
- 17. Agenda
Who am I? Who are you?
Check-up: How do you balance?
Remote work, how great is that?!1
| Let’s talk remote boundaries |
Measuring heart & balance
Check-in: Improving your balance!
- 21. Digital space
Remove access to work when
you’re not working
Mental space
Mindfulness; notice you’re
thinking about work (or life)
at the wrong time, and refocus
Physical space
Office with a door that closes
Draw a line
- 23. Working hours
Start/finish, lunch
breaks, gym, family
Fearless focus
Keep time
to do your work
Constraints
Colleagues, friends
and family, and YOU
Food
Take time
to eat properly
Put things in your calendar!
- 26. Agenda
Who am I? Who are you?
Check-up: How do you balance?
Remote work, how great is that?!1
| Let’s talk remote boundaries |
Measuring heart & balance
Check-in: Improving your balance!
- 30. Agenda
Who am I? Who are you?
Check-up: How do you balance?
Remote work, how great is that?!1
| Let’s talk remote boundaries |
Measuring heart & balance
Check-in: Improving your balance!
- 31. In review
Measure balance
Measure, assess, adjust
Don’t go alone
Seek community & support
Draw your lines
Boundaries! Calendars!
Leave the office
The world is a big place
- 32. Will you change anything
about how you balance your
work and life?
CHECK-IN