Since the beginning of COVID-19, many people around the world have started Consider the work arrangement at home. We want to share the useful methods for our team, because as a distributed company, Jetpack has always paid attention to keeping in touch, although there are quite a lot of differences in physical location. You may think that when COVID-19 forces everyone to keep a distance, this work arrangement has given us an advantage for nearly four years. This is partially correct.
For example, most of us are ready to work at home. In August, we wrote an article about what we learned from this work in many years. We have discussed the ideal environment, useful tools and equipment, how to deal with distractions and optimization schedule, challenges to work with children at home, and how to pay attention to physical and mental health appropriately.
We found that the following five things have the greatest influence on most Jetpack employees:
Use the real object to distinguish your work space
. This can help you build the correct mentality and separate work from personal life -even without special work space.
Establish the boundary and consciously take measures to minimize interference.
Set expectations for your personal behavior and goals and the people around you
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Use interesting and unique things
(such as plush toys, cool lights or environmental noise) to create a comfortable working environment and the latest equipment to help help You can complete the task more effectively.
Understanding will have ups and downs
, but intentionally respects the needs of physical and mental health.
However, although our team has rich experience in this distributed settings, we are also accustomed to relying on face -to -face team building activities, conferences, and grand gatherings in the company’s scope. Develop relationships, hone our skills, and develop new ideas. With the suspension of these opportunities, we must play a creativity -just like people around the world. Here are some ways we keep in touch:
Weekend update Face -to -face face to faceThe activity is beneficial, not only because of the main reservation meeting, but also because of the scheduled talks with colleagues during the corridor or dinner. Jetpack’s Code Wrangler Steve Seear discovered a frequent visitor, \”What did you do this weekend?\” Posting on our internal collaboration platform P2 is refreshing. This imitates the kind of chat you might be performed at a real party. These posts can help us know more about each other, grow up in common interests, and feel more relaxed together throughout the week. This is a good opportunity that can be isolated at home to replace life through the adventure of others.
William Viana shared the idea, he said: \”I start this post repeatedly released every week and ask you a simple question:
What did you do this weekend? Optional, you can share any content you like to share. This may be an interesting event you like on the weekend, a book you are reading, the game you are playing, the fun post you have read, etc. . \”
He first shared the meal he made first Self -made meals, as well as photos and stories of his family in the backyard swimming pool. In the history of the entire post, people shared the following:
Get a suitable ring to improve their exercise frequency
Ride a motorcycle in Paris
Try to try At least 24 hours without mobile phones (more difficult than you think!)
Persist in a nap time table
Stroll with your family
Adventure on the snowy day
[123 ] Return to the Popular Herbal Garden
Celebrating the Night of the Gaifx
Playing instruments and writing
… There are many posts about
Hades
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Meet … Do not meet
The Andrei Dinu of the Jetpack design team shared some ideas about how he kept contact:
\” Share individuals share individuals Story and facts . Daily Geekbot (everyone in the \”stand up\” formulas in a brief contact) is very helpful. But in general, I recommend that you open and share your story as much as possible. Although I have never seen them in person, I think I have a lot of help at my team. It is very helpful!
Remote Meeting
. We have held the first one. onceRemote party, I look forward to the next time. The more time together, the better.
Do the project together
. On Jetpack Design, we are always paired on a project. This makes collaboration easier. there is a question? Need feedback? We usually jump on the Zoom phone and start working. But it is impossible to share some personal things or ask, \”How are you?\” In any call.
Forever kind
. This is more like a personality characteristics, but everyone should work hard to understand the source of everyone. This \”good\” mentality is very helpful. \”
Filipe Varela, also from Jetpack Design, said:\” I noticed that Jetpack Design has been making some improvises recently, more than usual than usual. Generally speaking, video calls take up everyone for a day. These times can be better invested in other places, but it turns out that these can strengthen our communication, which is a fast and synchronized way, or easily share personal stories and easily share personal stories and easily share personal stories and easily share personal stories and easily share personal stories. Get some laughter. \”
Filipe also wants to emphasize Jetpack Manager James Grierson’s internal post, he reminded the entire department to pay attention to the flexibility of Automattic employees (really great; you should join us). \”Reading these words from our leadership team is really gratifying In my opinion, this makes us linked more closely. \”
In the distributed environment where individuals must use self -discipline to complete the task, it is easy to give yourself unrealistic pressure. If there is no face -to -face connection, it may be difficult to understand the expectations of the team. Therefore, it should be separated by separation. At that time, the encouragement and clear direction from the leadership becomes more important than ever. We thank each of everyone in Jetpack for their efforts to help us achieve our best work and life together.
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Williaviana and his family
Video Game
Marketing Director Rob PUGH mentioned that he benefited from the video game played by the team every week.
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Since the beginning of the Great Popularity, a team of Jetpack Infinity held a game meeting on Friday.With the opportunity to wander virtually, the team starts from a free game that can run on each person’s operating system. It is easy to join, and it can handle many players at a time.
But the disadvantages did appear, because the players were divided into two groups, so the game was very competitive. The level of different skills of players has become obvious, and some people do not like the game style selected by the group at all. Therefore, for their team gatherings, Infinity chose a new game: multiplayer famine. After experiencing many frustrating (but usually funny) fires and explosions, they renamed it \”Don’t Burn together.\”
Photo don \u0026#39; T Starve Together
Through clear communication channels and excellent gaming experience, everyone enters a optimized game environment This requires the technical expertise you get from Automattic.
In the end, the team shared more laughter than they thought. They learned to survive together …
longer
. Patrick DonoHue said in a review of the game: \”Multiple -person famine is an interesting event for the entire team, whether it is during the party or regularly. In view of our face -to -face party, I It is strongly recommended to conduct regular game activities as a way out of the team. \” Virtual dinner In addition, among one of the coolest things brought about by the popular restrictions, innovative director Jessifrid Man and his three colleagues reviewed a period of experience:
\”Jeff GoLenski, Derek Smart, and Rocco Tripaldi and I worry that we will miss the annual winter dinner, so we must innovate. [ [
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123] We did not go to dinner together in person, but held a zoom conference call and made a secret Santa Claus for meals.
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Before dinner, we shared our favorite food, allergies and delivery details. Then we used an application to allocate a purchase object for each of us. We secretly ordered surprises for each other. Dinner, and arrange them to arrive at 6:30 on the night of the event. 6:00, we started talking and waited for everyone’s food. We have dinner and guess who got the other party. Jeff gave me to me. I bought sushi, greatEssence\” Until we meet again Maintaining contact in Jetpack is not just to achieve work goals. In such a strange era, we are uniting to build a stronger relationship and provide you in other companies in other companiesEncouragement that will not be found often. It can be playing video games, sharing personal stories, holding an innovative dinner, and even just maintaining a friendly mentality.
This is not perfect, but it keeps us in the entire popular period.Contact and full of hope. Through this first experience, we can all learn from each other.
Ride a motorcycle in Paris 
