When Temporary Remote-work Becomes Permanent

Dawn Parzych &
25:13 min
Dec 10, 2020

Many employees were thrust into working remotely with little to no warning. Everybody was scrambling to figure out how to temporarily set up for employees being remote. This temporary shift seems to be moving towards a more long-term situation.

This remote work is not typical of what remote work looked like in the past. There are new challenges that we need to address and plan for. This talk will answer the following questions:

Are you experiencing Zoom fatigue?
How do you balance work and caring for yourself and others?
How do you interview and on-board new team members remotely?

We’ll explore the ways to make ourselves and our teams successful in a distributed and remote world.

Dawn Parzych

Director Product Marketing at Cloudflare

Dawn is a Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly where she uses her storytelling prowess to write and speak about the intersection of technology and psychology. She enjoys helping people be more successful at work and at life. She makes technical information accessible avoiding buzzwords and jargon whenever possible. Dawn has spoken at DevOpsDays, Velocity, Interop, and Monitorama. Her articles have appeared in numerous technical publications. In her freetime she serves as an organizer for Write/Speak/Code, the Seattle DevOps Meetup, and is on the organizing committee for DevOpsDays Seattle.

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