One weekend in 2021, I decided to hire a virtual assistant. I was trying to book flights to Northern Canada, which was a bigger task than usual. I needed multiple options, and we would be staying in a hotel overnight on our way. At the time, my daughter was just over 6 months old, and …
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I’ve worked remotely for almost seven years, and meetings have been a natural part of my work. Doing video calls is one of the few ways I connected with Buffer teammates before meeting most of them in person over a year after I joined. So this article is not saying that I’m entirely against meetings, …
Over the last two years, I have spent two long periods of time away from work. The first was my 16 weeks of maternity leave in 2021, and the second was my recent 7-week sabbatical from work. During both of these extended leaves, I did the same thing — I set my emails to auto-delete …
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