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From on-site to remote working: 3 important learnings

From on-site to remote working: 3 important learnings

My learnings from working both on-site and remotely.

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Gregor Ojstersek
Jun 25, 2023
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Intro

Working remotely provides its own set of challenges. When transitioning from on-site to remote, you find yourself in a situation, where you need to keep yourself accountable and not rely on others to do that.

I am working remotely now for the past 4-5 years and I am still to this day trying to get better at it. I believe that is going to be a never-ending process. Let’s take a look at some challenges I needed to overcome when I first started working remotely.

Challenges when I first started working remotely

The biggest challenges for me, when I started working remotely, were:

  1. I was always used to having people around me with whom I could brainstorm ideas, ask for feedback, or just have a coffee with anytime.

    Since you can’t do that remotely, I’ve learned to become a lot more autonomous and learned the importance of planning ahead of time.

  2. Focusing on tasks was easier on site, because there weren’t a lot of distractions, like you have in your own home for example.

    I needed to observe mys…

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