Awesome Remote Work

A curated list of awesome resources for remote workers: hiring site, remote life, book, tool and what funny telecommunication job is. Inspired by 'awesome-' repos. All PRs are welcomed to contribute to this awesome stuff.

Table of Contents

• Books
• Experience
• Hiring sites
• Software
• Law

All resources are collected from many sources on Internet and ordered randomly.

Books

• Remote : Office Not Required. A great book for every newbie at remote working. As its description, As an employer, restricting your hiring to a small geographic region means you’re not getting the best people you can. As an employee, restricting your job search to companies within a reasonable commute means you’re not working for the best company you can. REMOTE, the new book by 37signals, shows both employers and employees how they can work together, remotely, from any desk, in any space, in any place, anytime, anywhere.

Experience

• My Ideal Day as a Remote Programmer: Taking Charge of Your Daily Routine by Colin Ross, Chief back-end at Buffer.
• A Day in the Life of a Remote Developer by Josh Black, a software engineer working at CramerDev, based in US.
• Working As A Remote Contract Code Monkey by Lee Penkman, a software engineer, live in New Zealand and work remotely for a firm in Australia.
• The Joys and Benefits of Working as a Distributed Team by Joel Gascoigne, Co-founder and CEO at Buffer. Buffer is a company with almost employees are remote workers.

Hiring Sites

• https://weworkremotely.com. A page of 37Signals.
• http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote. Job page of StackOverflow.
• http://www.flexjobs.com/jobs/ a service purely focusing on telecommuting, part-time, flexible jobs.
• http://www.reddit.com/r/forhire/new/. Subreddit for hiring, not purely a remote job page but have a lots.
• http://hnhiring.me/ an aggregator site collects job from HackerNews, easier to read.
• http://workinstartups.com/ not all jobs are remote but it has.
• https://angel.co/jobs, a lots of startup jobs, set filter for "Remote OK" will show remote jobs.
• https://remotecoder.io/
• http://www.authenticjobs.com/#onlyremote=1
• http://www.remoteyear.com/jobs/, job board of RemoteYear program.
• http://nomadjobs.io/
• http://jobmote.com/
• http://workingnomads.co/
• http://www.teamed.io/
• http://www.toptal.com
• http://automattic.com/work-with-us/. Made https://wordpress.com/, has remote working culture and employees are from everywhere in the world.
• https://www.wfh.io/, 100% remote tech-oriented job board
• http://jobs.remotive.io/, weekly update with remote jobs from startups.
• http://remoteok.io/ a remote job aggregator. Job from Angel List, Stackoverflow, ...
• http://remotus.com/ a fulltime jobs for developers, still under construction. Seems have a lots of startup jobs.
• http://www.candoerz.com/ hourly update remote, relocate, freelance jobs aggregator.

Software

• Skype for quick chat.
• Slack for team communication.
• Hipchat tool for team communication, similar to Slack. By Atlassian.
• Pivotal Tracker for tracking tasks.
• Trello free, flexible, and visual way to organize anything with anyone.
• Harvest, a timesheet tracking software.
• Desktime, time tracking tool.
• Toggl, insanely simple time tracking tool.
• What Remote Working Means & The Tools We Use at Buffer, tools used at Buffer.

Law