If you follow remote news, you almost certainly heard about Better.com CEO's firing of 900 employees over a 3-minute Zoom call. The news received major attention not just for the number of terminations, but particularly for the callous nature of the termination and follow-up comments by the CEO. So in today's episode, we're talking about its handling and lessons to be learned.

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One of the biggest challenges of Remote work is taking the time and effort to maintain healthy work habits. Whether it's drawing the lines between your work and personal life, preventing eye fatigue and vision damage, maintaining good ergonomics in your home office set-up, or breaking up the 'sitting' periods, there are a number of activities we can engage in, and issues we have to look out for, when working outside the office. Greg and Colin are sharing some advice as well as some personal successes, failures and ongoing battles.

Here's the article we mentioned in this episode: https://www.verywellhealth.com/remote-work-health-risks-5080056

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Does it feel to like your team is hitting that 'middle of the project' fatigue with remote work? We're talking about it! (and as usual, getting distracted by many other things, too).

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We're talking with Ian & Amy Anderson, co-owners of their own web design business and true digital nomads. We discuss the digital nomad life, saving money on AirBnBs, and working effectively with your partner while sharing a workspace.

You can check out Ian & Amy's adventures on their instagrams here: ianrobertanderson and unleashingamy.

You can also check out Ian's AirBnB negotiation course here: https://ianrobertanderson.gumroad.com/l/JQhjF.

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It's a first for Remotely Prepared - a Guest Host! And for our first episode, we were lucky enough to get friend of the podcast Shaun Coghlan! You'll remember Shaun Coghlan from last season, when we spoke to him about his experiences transitioning to a new job entirely remotely (and, ya know...during a pandemic). Greg & Shaun discussed Graeme Sharpe's recent article (https://medium.com/illumination/4-simple-tricks-to-excel-at-remote-work-ab868c03ec8f) on tips and tricks for exceling at remote work. Check it out!

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We're back from a brief hiatus while Colin dealt with a difficult personal challenge. Which got us thinking about the role of remote in maintaining work in difficult times where location, working hours, and even physical and mental health states can be difficult to predict.

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In recent weeks a new idea has exploded - that some remote workers are out there secretly working 2 full-time jobs. Colin is grumpy about it, so we're talking about it.

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What would a 4 day work week mean for you as an employee? Could you keep up with your work? Achieve the same results? More? Less?

What would 3 days off a week mean for your personal life? 

You guessed it! We're talking about the 4 Day Work Week.

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If you think about the promise of remote work, you probably imagine sitting on a beach enjoying the sunshine...and that's exactly where we caught up with Simran Chaudhry, VP Sales & Marketing and Co-Founder of Creospark. We had a fantastic chat about the Creospark family, their journey and the secret to their remote success.

You can connect with Sim on LinkedIn here and learn more about Creospark at https://creospark.com/ 

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Recently, some major tech employers have announced that remote workers may receive pay cuts if they move place of residence. In today's episode, we're talking (ranting?) about the logic behind this move - the parts that make sense, and more importantly, the parts that make no sense at all to us.

Check out the Forbes article here

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