JJ Reeder

Reintroduction for new followers! I lead ops, culture & engagement for distributed (remote) teams. - GitLab #allremote team 2020-2022 - Upwork director of remote 2022-on - Coursera course on remote management: 70k+ learners Here's a post you might like on my site. #remotework #futureofwork

Great leaders don’t fear remote work—they fear the absence of trust, clarity, and accountability. The problem isn’t where people work, it’s how we lead them.

Is your company remote-first? Don't assume you can operate like other distributed organizations. Define your unique strategy and reap the rewards. #HybridWork #RemoteStrategy

A toxic culture in the office will stay toxic remotely. Changing the location won’t change the outcome—only leadership will. #remotework

I'm going to need all my Gen Xers to go right now to your Docs settings and switch your format to pageless. Yes by default. No bro, nobody wants to see your page breaks and like, little tiny text in the footer. No dude I'm serious. They're not gonna print it, buddy.

Great communication makes work frictionless. And when work is enjoyable, people stay.

Remote work doesn't make collaboration harder - it exposes bad habits. The real mission is creating the structures that make collaboration seamless, regardless of distance.

Leaders often underestimate the impact of unclear expectations. For remote teams, confusion isn’t just inefficient—it’s destructive. #remotework

I remember once a startup I worked at hired an ergonomics consultant to fix our posture and they spent the whole day taking measurements and judging us and then they left the profession and we never got any recommendations. just a pile of shrimps shipping features to millions of users.

Communication is the primer for culture. Without effective communication, culture work won’t stick.

What are your thoughts on async video messages? I know they're becoming the norm at many remote-first companies, but personally, I hate watching a 3-minute video when a quick note would have done the job. #asyncwork

In-person moments for remote-first teams are crucial, but don't neglect culture-building in the day-to-day. Keep the global team spirit alive by weaving connectedness into all parts of the employee experience. #TeamBuilding #RemoteCulture

The year is 2025 and office vacancies just hit a record high. Bosses can talk big about RTO, but the bottom line is more of them are letting go of their offices.

US office vacancies hit a record high last year: 20.4% of office space in the top 50 metro areas is now empty. How much is this driving return-to-office #RTO mandates? #FutureOfWork #RemoteWork www.axios.com/2025/01/10/o...

Ah the Elon strategy

i mean,,, yes? that is usually what it entails

This is why I just spent 5 minutes putting on extra layers so I can go breathe the 24-degree (-4 C) air for 30 minutes. It’s worth the effort on almost any day.

We'll never get another like him.

“How AI is adopted in the workplace matters. We need to consider the types of tasks it takes over, whether it is human-centric in design and whether it promotes meaningful work.” ⬆️

Honestly? This is the tech industry reaching its full, bloated maturity. Like media and publishing before it, tech is now big enough that certain corporations are required to play craven in order to maintain their level of scale. I also see the preemptive layoffs, just in case 👀

I took a social media break, did anything happen? Seems like no news since mid-December right? 👍

The rise in WFH productivity boosts demand for housing, driving up prices. But workers in jobs that can’t be done remotely don’t see the same benefits. Higher housing costs hit them harder, reducing their welfare.

cant wait to flash all of you constantly

I keep thinking: it's easy to have a great company culture when the business is doing well. But what companies managed to keep morale (& retention) high during a downturn? The current period is going to show us who's nailing it on culture 👀

How to empower individuals and transfer agency: connect company strategy to everyday actions. #Empowerment #RemoteWork

There’s interesting potential for AI to do work for humans. But let’s not uh… act like being human is a bad thing

Do not like remote work becoming a politicized issue. 👎

Doesn't appear (yet) to be a lot of CEOs following Amazon and @washingtonpost.com back into offices 5 days a week. Latest from Flex Index shows that we're at stasis: 2/3rd of firms have some form of workplace flexibility that allows work from home at least a couple days a week

Our Good Work Algorithmic Impact Assessment is an aligned tool, developed with funding from the ICO, focused on workplace applications of AI and algorithmic systems. Find more about it here, and our work with firms to support responsible AI adoption: www.ifow.org/publications...

I woke up this morning and said "brr." #lingsky, any thoughts on the #etymology of that interjection? Feels like it started as onomatopoeia, maybe back when the r would have been a trill?

Future of Work starter pack is live! Filled with people who are active on Bluesky and have enough expertise in the field that I personally want to read their posts 😎 go.bsky.app/4nEu3PY I surely missed people. Please tag anyone who belongs here! #futureofwork #remotework

#TSUNAMI WARNING for San Francisco Bay Area! #SFO #SanFran #BayArea We don't have information yet for how big the rise in water levels may be. Estimated to hit Bay Area around 12:10 PM – 1 hour from now! Fort Bragg 1110 PST Dec 5 Crescent City 1120 PST Dec 5

Trust is everything! Having a low-trust culture is one of the factors that will block your company from effectively working remotely. I’m always trying to understand more about the mechanics of trust. Looking forward to reading what @mindaharts.bsky.social has to say.

Reading about the Great Depression has been a good way for me to develop a more nuanced lens on current events and trends.

GenAI is nowhere near reliable as a research or fact-checking tool. You can use it to draft ideas, but news flash: you still have to use your own brain. For now.

Who you calling atrocious?

Just got followed by this atrocious AI account. Tag yourself: I'm omfoce snacks.

Reformatting this whole thing. Blocklist for Hugging Face, the AI company that's proudly stealing your tweets

Another starter pack you want to follow all.