Remote-work resources

Remote-work resources

GitLab remote collaboration

On this page, we’re curating a list of resources for remote professionals, teams, and organizations.

Looking for GitLab’s library of guides to working remotely? Those are here.

Resources on GitLab’s all-remote approach

Articles

Blogs from GitLab team members

Videos, podcasts, interviews, presentations

Videos
Podcasts
Articles

Threads and conversations

Resources on remote work

GitLab values

Articles

Best practices

Surveys and data

Videos, interviews, presentations

Threads and conversations

Tools that enable remote teams

Here’s a list of the tools we use internally at GitLab, with details on how we use them.

Elaine Z., investor at SignalFire, compiled an excellent summary of tools for remote teams to consider. Others are shared below.

Communication
  • Slack - chat
  • Zoom - video calls
  • Google Workspace
  • Jamm - Synchronous and asynchronous voice and video collaboration for remote teams
  • Yac - asynchronous voice collaboration for remote team
  • 8x8 - unified communications (video, VoIP, etc.)
Design and collaboration
  • MURAL - visual design collaboration
  • Figma - design collaboration
  • CoScreen - remote screensharing
Handbook and company-wide documentation
Empathy, culture, and team-building
Management
Meetings
Events, meetups, gatherings
  • Hopin - all-in-one live online events platform
  • Remo - virtual workspace tool

Co-working, communal workspaces, and third spaces

Remote work enables individuals and teams to create and contribute in places other than a home or conventional office. Many are familiar with WeWork and Regus, where a desk or office is available to rent. Post-COVID, leaders are recognizing the need to support the third space — a workplace that isn’t one’s home, and isn’t an office.

Some organizations (like GitLab) provide stipends or reimbursement as a matter of inclusivity and productivity. Not every home is amenable to remote work, and not everyone is comfortable working in a traditional office. These communal workspaces provide the energy and camaraderie of working in-person as a group, with the flexibility of being near one’s home (and in turn, avoiding a commute).

  • Codi (residential coworking spaces in neighborhoods that matter to you)
  • Switchyards (neighborhood work clubs)
  • WorkChew (alternative workspaces within restaurants and hotels)

Organizations for traveling remote work

Guides for remote work

Contribute to this page

At GitLab, we recognize that the whole idea of all-remote organizations is still quite new, and can only be successful with active participation from the whole community. Here’s how you can participate:

  • Propose or suggest any change to this site by creating a merge request.
  • Create an issue if you have any questions or if you see an inconsistency.
  • Help spread the word about all-remote organizations by sharing it on social media.

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