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For too long our lives have been dominated by the 'under one roof' Industrial Revolution model of work. That era is now over. As remote working is becoming increasingly more flexible, there is no longer a reason for the daily roll call, of the need to be seen with your butt on your seat in the office. The technology and necessity to work remotely and to avoid the daily grind of commuting and meetings has finally come of age. Bestselling authors Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson are the masters of making it work at tech company 37signals.
Remote: Office Not Required combines eye-opening ideas with entertaining narrative. With its almost prescient content, the book will convince you that working remotely increases productivity and innovation, and it will also teach you how to get it right - whether you are a manager, working solo or one of a team. Chapters include: 'Talent isn't bound by the hubs', 'It's the technology, stupid', 'When to type, when to talk', 'Stop managing the chairs' and 'The virtual water cooler'.
Brilliantly simple and refreshingly illuminating this is a call to action to end the tyranny of being shackled to the office.
- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherVermilion
- Publication date31 Oct. 2013
- Dimensions13.5 x 1.9 x 21.6 cm
- ISBN-109780091954673
- ISBN-13978-0091954673
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About the Author
DAVID HEINEMEIER HANSSON is the creator of Ruby on Rails, an open-source web framework on which hundreds of thousands of web applications have been built – including Twitter. He is also Fried’s business partner at 37signals and co-author of Rework.
37 SIGNALS is internationally renowned for its innovative web products, including Basecamp, Highrise and Campfire. Founded in 1999, 37signals has grown into a multi-million dollar company with over three million loyal customers. The company, based in Chicago, has been profiled in the Guardian, Time, Wired and Business Week.
JASON FRIED is the founder of 37signals, a privately held web-based software development company and the co-author of the international bestseller Rework. His motto is, ‘It's simple until you make it complicated’.
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- ASIN : 0091954673
- Publisher : Vermilion (31 Oct. 2013)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780091954673
- ISBN-13 : 978-0091954673
- Dimensions : 13.5 x 1.9 x 21.6 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 254,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jason Fried is the co-founder and President of 37signals, a privately-held Chicago-based company committed to building the best web-based tools possible with the least number of features necessary.
37signals' products include Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, Campfire, Ta-da List, and Writeboard. 37signals also developed and open-sourced the Ruby on Rails programming framework. 37signals' products do less than the competition -- intentionally.
37signals weblog, Signal vs. Noise, is read by over 100,000 people every day.
Jason believes there's real value and beauty in the basics. Elegance, respect for people's desire to simply get stuff done, and honest ease of use are the hallmarks of 37signals products.

David Heinemeier Hansson is the cofounder of Basecamp and NYT bestselling coauthor of REWORK and REMOTE. He's also the creator of the software toolkit Ruby on Rails, which has been used to launch and power Twitter, Shopify, GitHub, Airbnb, Square, and over a million other web applications. Originally from Denmark, he moved to Chicago in 2005, and now lives between the US and Spain with his wife and two sons. In his spare time, he enjoys 200-mph race cars in international competition, taking cliche pictures of sunsets and kids, and ranting far too much on Twitter.
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- It felt a bit like a long moan
- It didn't feel like a book I could return to and dip into (though I will), especially in comparison to REWORK
- It's far from disruptive, and it does feel stale
I liked the book, I love 37Signals, but I was really expecting something better. I hope they write another book, they have a good format and I love their ethos/approach. I'm excited by 37Signals and the impact they are having - and it makes me excited about the way the teams I'm a part of work
It would have been great to see more content on how they work remotely - whereas I actually think Lean UX is a better indication of how to work remotely, and still be productive and collaborative when designing, or planning sprints etc.
The book does put the case well for remote working, but don't expect the same 'aha' moments that came with Rework.
The book focuses on this single topic and puts a balanced argument forward for how and when it can be made to work. Its not a 'silver bullet' solution and I can see that applying these ideas in a mid/large size organization will need significant effort and determination - and needs to be weighed up against the other day to day challenges that face everyone in a 'normal' office.
It covered the subject of remote working very broadly. It covers the subject from both the side of the employee, the manager and the company so only maybe 3 chapters were of much use and those chapters but a few short pages long with most of the advice offered being pretty much common sense rather than anything groundbreaking.
There was also quite a bit of self-promoting trumpet blowing about how amazing the writers company is that was rather off-putting.
It did have a few useful pointers which is why it is getting 3 stars, but I was underwhelmed and disappointed.
Great book for this insight.
I work for a large multinational in a global IT solution delivery role and when I compare the tools we use for collaborating on our global projects to what is out there in the market and explained here I can see incredible opportunities to speed up our solution life cycle and implementations. Better tools and 2013 thinking (not 1913) can radically change this.











