REMOTE WORKING
How to embrace flexible working in your business Implementing strategies for remote and flexible working in your business can benefit your brand and productivity long term Written by Fab Giovanetti
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s Buffer and other tech startups have fully embraced the flexible working lifestyle, I made it part of our company ethos to welcome and embrace flexible working fully. Being bound to your desk more than 39 hours a week at work also means you’re
more likely to develop mental health problems (according to research from the Australian National University). People like the one and only Tim Ferris have been praising flexible working for over 10 years (check out 4 Hour Work Week for more on that ). More and more entrepreneurs I talk to these days embrace
flexible working as a way to communicate and manage a team. My team works remotely most days, we communicate via Quip (most people use Slack these days), and I let them choose the days they are online — they both work part-time, which suits their own business dreams and goals.
