'The Future Reworked' is a podcast by Piktochart that's documenting the future of work movement.

Here on the show, you’ll learn about how companies across the globe, big and small, are allowing their people to redesign their work lives the way they see fit. You’ll get to meet Internet entrepreneurs, digital nomad marketers, people who are leveraging technology and globalization trends to become happier and more productive. And they’re working with companies that really get it.

SHOW NOTES: 
1:42 - Piktochart on running a semi-distributed team of 60 people, 12 nationalities across 5 timezones.
2:52 - Our CEO and cofounder Ai Ching Goh's take on the challenges that semi-distributed teams face, and building a people-focused company
3:30 - Bridging the gap between different timezones
5:30 - How Piktochart promotes a culture of fairness. What perks and benefits looks like at a semi-distributed company
6:40 - The turning point and happy accident behind how Piktochart went semi-distributed
7:49 - Empathy is the key trait that Marta, head of marketing, hires for and is essential for multi-cultural teams to work
8:48 - "Trust is the most essential trait a leader needs to have"
9:57 - Social media marketer Wilson Moy on the cultural clashes, east meets west
12:00 - Working with location-independent teammates just like having a long distance relationship
12:38 - Growing pains when balancing needs between needs of on-site and remote employees
13:49 - Not many reference points for semi-distributed teams out there in the tech world. GitHub as one example
15:41 - Different skills required for remote work and those who prefer to work in an office

Episode 01 - Do Semi-Distributed Teams Work?

Today on episode two of our new podcast on the future of work, we’re taking an in depth look at those fully-distributed teams - the companies that don’t require their people to go into an office at all.  

We chat with the good people of SchoolKeep, Buffer, Hanno, and Toggl and learn about how they run their distributed teams. These are companies made up of people collaborating remotely across a handful of different time zones, from North America to Asia. and you can bet that no one is asking them to punch the clock.

SHOW NOTES 

0:40 - Visualize a company with no office 
2:00 - Introducing the distributed team model 
2:27 - Random meetings are a productivity killer 
4:18 - What is asynchronous collaboration? 
5:46 - All roles are suitable for remote work 
7:16 - Easy to forget that remote workers are actual human beings 
8:25 - People are more honest with computers than humans 
9:01 - Lack of trust is the biggest obstacle for remote teams 
10:05 - This fully distributed team is keeping its office 
11:54 - Distributed set up helps win the war for talent 
13:16 - Buffer’s story of going fully remote 
14:59 - Distributed model is fitting for the tech industry 
15:30 - What else should we change about our work lives?

Episode 02 - How Do Distributed Teams Work?

SHOW NOTES:

Chance Glasco of Doghead Simulations, makers of VR meeting software Rumii (http://www.dogheadsimulations.com/).

1:00 - video conferencing a two-dimensional experience until virtual reality headsets showed up
2:22 - Introducing Chance Glasco, of Doghead Simulations and Call of Duty franchise cofounder
3:55 - Getting video game industry burnout, hightailing to Brazil to plot next move
5:14 - How VR meetings help with focus and engagement
6:23 - Social presence. Simulating being in the same physical location as people using VR technology
8:02 - What does a VR meeting look like? Chance gives us a virtual tour
9:13 - Humans are visual creatures, being able to perceive body language in remote meetings improves engagement
10:13 - Video game and business world overlap where we can enter “spectator mode” to re-experience missed meetings
12:05 - A team that plays together, stays together.
13:15 - 2017 was a year of exciting breakthrough technologies. What’s next?
13:53 - Seeing your colleagues in hologram form? Yes please!

References:
1. According to the Center For Economics and Business Research, office workers believe more than 50% of that time is actually wasted.
2. A Salary.com survey reveals that 47% of workers have named “too many meetings” as the number one time waster at the office.

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