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 shares his insights from hundreds of thousands of users, and what trends are accelerating at lighting speed.

What You Will Learn in Today’s Podcast Interview:

What the future of work and business will look like post COVID vaccine

The crucial difference between “remote working” and “work from home”

Why managing remote working is like “printing money”

Why 22% of Liam’s clients have already cancelled their commercial leases

What 50% of Liam’s clients are thinking about as it relates to the future of their office

How to free up one of the largest expenses on the P&L

Ways to build a company culture “on purpose” vs by accident

Why high performers are using the remote flexibility to get 2 more hours of sleep a day

How one entrepreneur is buying traditional business and taking them remote to grow a portfolio of extremely valuable companies

How their data shows that efficiency, instead of more time, leads to greater success

How Time Doctor allows companies to evaluate performance both within the organization and among other similar companies

What the hierarchy of communication is, and why less communication can facilitate your work flow

Why the days of the $500k Google developer are gone

How to analyze and optimize productivity for each position in a company

Why Liam sees this time as a restructuring of our economy

Podcast Interview Summary:

Today’s guest is Liam Martin, the co-founder of Time Doctor (time tracking tool) and an advocate of remote work. With hundreds of thousands of users and clients like Verizon and Keller Willams, Liam has insights into how big and small companies are planning on managing remote working in a post COVID vaccine world.

Since entrepreneurs now have to accommodate working from home for the foreseeable future (in one way or another), Liam is the perfect guest to talk about the impacts it has on business valuations, business models, culture, employee productivity and more.

Liam discusses how the large work-from-home shift accelerated trends that were inevitable. He shares his opinions on why there won't be a snap back to the old "normal", what trends owners need to be aware of, and how to capitalize on opportunities that are already right in front of us. 

Liam shares how companies who give employees more flexibility and control of their time can lead to a more valuable business, more productive and efficient work, while also reducing (or eliminating) the large cost of commercial office space.

About the Guest:

Liam is the co-founder and CMO of TimeDoctor.com and Staff.com. After graduating with a masters in Sociology from McGill University, Liam opened a small tutoring company which grew to over 100 employees, and looked to solve a problem with remote employees not reporting accurate work data which turned into Staff.com. He consults on outsourcing and process design and is passionate about how to gain insights into the inner workings of how people work.

 

Podcast Interview Quotes:

12:35 – “Remote work, when you look at it, your office costs are the second largest line item for any company...It’s payroll, and then it’s your office.” – Liam Martin

14:59 – “If you simply apply an extra 2 hours of sle