Business:Careers
33 Tangents - Episode #89 - Talking Remote Team Management with Time Doctor Co-Founder Liam Martin
2020-01-10
On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jason and Jim welcome Liam Martin for a discussion and debate around remote work in general, fostering collaboration with remote teams, and how to manage a remote workers.
Liam is a serial entrepreneur who runs Time Doctor and Staff.com - one of the most popular time tracking and productivity software platforms in use by top brands today. He is also a co-organizer of the world’s largest remote work conference - Running Remote. Liam lives in Canada but travels 3-6 months out of the year due to his ability to work wherever and whenever he likes.
While both Jason and Liam support the ability for workers to choose where and when they work, they have different perspectives which will lead to a rousing and exciting conversation.
HIGHLIGHTS- 1:25 - Introductions.
- 5:00 - Un-retired snowbird.
- 9:00 - Is remote-first scalable?
- 14:30 - What is the most obscure place where you have an employee based?
- 17:35 - What would you say to companies that would rather have nothing instead of hiring a remote employee?
- 23:20 - Designing your remote team.
- 28:15 - Yahoo and remote work.
- 33:45 - Experience with time and activity tracking software.
- 39:50 - Is there a single way to run a remote team or company?
- 43:10 - Can you innovate and collaborate as a remote-first company?
- 46:25 - Liam’s recommendations for convincing a company to allow you to work remote.
- 55:00 - Remote work in 10 years.
- 56:30 - Wrap-up
Time Doctor
Running Remote Conference
Running Remote YouTube Channel
Dunbar's Number
THANK YOU
We know your time is limited, so it means a lot to us that you would spend some of your time with us. If you have found this episode to be valuable, we would appreciate if you would share using one of the social media buttons bellow
And if we are getting you hooked, don’t forget to subscribe, like, and recommend on your favorite podcast platform.
Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/33-tangents/id1384329330
Listen on TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/33-Tangents-p1129251/
WHERE TO FIND US
Website: www.33sticks.com
Email: Podcast@33sticks.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/33Sticks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/33sticks/
More Episodes
Get this podcast on your
phone, FREE
