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Ever get derailed by distractions, despite the best intentions? 🙋♀️🙋♂️
Try the Pomodoro Technique! It's a tried-and-true strategy for eliminating distractions and powering through tasks.
Dive in today! 🍅💪
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#TimeManagement #Productivity
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Feeling swamped by unfinished tasks? Clear your mind with the 5-step Getting Things Done system: Capture 📝, Clarify❓, Organize 📂, Reflect 💭, and Engage 🎯.
Read the detailed guide here 👇:
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#Productivity #Focus
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Are you looking for effective time management advice without losing sleep 😴 or cramming more tasks into 24 hours? ⏳
Explore our guide for tried-and-tested techniques that'll help you craft a personalized system to master time management 👇:
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Float's embracing a more transparent approach to company culture & async remote work!
Find out how our public-facing handbook 📚💡 empowers potential hires, new team members, & employees.
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We’re already excited about 2023! If you have location suggestions for where a 50+ global remote team should meet, please let us know in the comments below.
#remoteteams #remotework #meetups #trustbuilding #bestworklife
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40+ folks, traveling from 20+ countries, for 3 nights and 2 days, and one unforgettable experience!
Workshops, presentations, cable cars, zip lines, great food, laughter, debates, hikes, secret talents (break dancing! )—not in that order—and the list goes on. 🎤🚠🍻🏃♀️⛰️🕺🧀
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Last week was our 2022 meetup in Chamonix, France! Our People Ops team nailed the brief of creating a unique “Float hub” vibe for our meet to ensure that we could make the most of our time together—while being mindful of the logistics of distance, travel time, and energy levels.
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Our 47 teammates are based in over 20 countries and 40 cities—we’re literally floating all over the world (pun intended). Next week we’re getting together in Chamonix, France 🇫🇷, for our first in-person meetup in nearly three years! 🥳 #globalteam #teamevent #teambuilding
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That distributed team feeling when your co-worker is sending Friday happy hour pics, and you’ve just poured your first cup of coffee. 🍻☕ #globalteam #remoteteam
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*Gulps!* 🧟♀️ We can't promise that our timesheets (pre-filled btw) will be your favorite thing to do, but we do hope that it's an easy time and not a long time — so you can get back to enjoy the land of the living! Give us a try at 👉float.com/
@RominaAranzola’s workspace features some of the things she ❤️s. “It’s a work in progress, but what I enjoy the most with my desk setup is being able to see the things I believe in and that make me happy.”
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Chris’ (@outrunthewolf) workspace takes the vibrance award 🏆. "I like having loads of weird and colorful things around me: film posters, old game inserts, trinkets, lights, and more, so I look forward to being in my space. I can’t wait to be in here; it’s great fun!"
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Just launched 🚀: The Float Learn Library—a brand new space that makes it easy to discover helpful content on managing workloads and scheduling time. 👉 buff.ly/3SlEvJk Want to see us cover a specific topic? Comment below and let us know!
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At Float, we can work from anywhere, and that often includes a #coworkingspace. Our team has access to a monthly coworking allowance—a perk that can be used for a change of scenery or to stay productive 🧠. Check out some other benefits 👇. #remotework
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#asynchronous work rocks 💪, but it’s not perfect. Our Director of Marketing @SiobHayes shares four challenges we must address to ensure our async mode of #remotework stays effective. Find out more 👉: buff.ly/3O8M8Qi
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We’re #hiring! Our remote, async team is looking for a Senior #AccountManager in the Americas region who’ll help new customers get the most value out of Float 📈. Apply here 👉: buff.ly/3MqR4yU
📣 We’re #hiring an Account Executive to help turn more teams into Float customers! ✅ If you’re interested in joining our remote, async team, check out the job description here 👉: buff.ly/3aHxgdy
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We don’t use #coverletters at Float 🙅. We think there are more effective ways to evaluate candidates while respecting their time. Our Talent Lead, Linda Biggs, explains the philosophy behind our application process. 👉 buff.ly/3wZnF9r #recruitment #HRtrends
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#asynchronous work has a reputation for being slow—but it doesn’t have to be that way. @Nikoletta_Bika shares four ways to streamline asynchronous #communication so it’s actually more efficient than synchronous.
Read it here:👉 buff.ly/3x1vQmI
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Responding to work emails and Slack messages shouldn’t come at the expense of #deepwork. Float’s Director of Engineering, Colin Ross ( @colinscape) explains how our team protects their time to balance communicating 💬 with producing 🧠.. Read it here:👉 buff.ly/3G1tMhv
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How do you communicate effectively in a #remote async team? Three rules: be clear, concise, and conducive. Sameet Singh explains what this means in practice and gives tips on effective #remotecollaboration. 👉 buff.ly/3wdTVVP
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#remotework is a game-changer for #worklifebalance—but not necessarily by default. To live our best work life at Float, we set deliberate boundaries between our two worlds. Here’s how we do it 👉 buff.ly/3y6nI5h
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As we continue to grow, we’re also evolving our processes—especially those that support our team’s health and #wellbeing. 🤩 Find out more about our initiatives from our Operations Manager @pogroberts. 👉 buff.ly/3LINuAE #remoteteam
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At Float, we're a fully remote team working asynchronously around the world. This is our best work life. 🎉 🙌 🌎
#bestworklife #manifesto #float #remotework #asynchronous
Join the team! float.com/careers
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We’re expanding our Insights Team with a new #UXResearcher! Our UX Research Lead Mia Northrop talks about the role & how our global, distributed team is living our best work life at Float 😎. #UXresearch #uxrjobs
Interested? Apply here 👉: buff.ly/3OoqoRD
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We wrapped up Q1 with our Float #remoteroadshow 🌎 🚐— 48 hours of asynchronous department presentations to inform and energize the team. Since our first roadshow in December our team has grown by 20% and we've several new open roles, too! Check them out👉float.com/careers/
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We’re all about learning at Float—what we do well and can do better. To monitor the performance of our services, we started testing service level objectives a year ago.
Chris Nash @outrunthewolf explains how that worked out for us (Spoiler alert:🤩). buff.ly/3DQiM5C
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We're shocked and saddened by recent events. We #StandWithUkraine, including team members and customers who are impacted.
An email has been sent to customers that we know to be living in Ukraine. If your team has been directly affected, please contact us when you are ready.
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We've just launched Plus Pack, a new Float add-on for teams who need security and workflow controls at scale. 🔐♻️🚀
Stay on top of the latest security and compliance requirements for your organization with these advanced features 👉 buff.ly/3BKLjYZ.
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"Hell yes is not about an individual personality trait or specific skill set. We're not looking for homogeneity. In fact, as a global remote company, we're looking for the opposite."
Read about how we hire 👉 buff.ly/3sEIGEj.
Join our team 👉 buff.ly/39UYpGB.
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There are different ways to work remotely. Asynchronous remote empowers our Float team to work from anywhere in the world, and choose their own hours. Find out why this supports us to live our #bestworklife 👉 buff.ly/31DL6Jd
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The new project templates feature in Float helps you to plan, schedule, and scale projects faster. We've also added the option to lock a project's task list to keep your team in sync when tracking and invoicing work.
Learn more 👉 buff.ly/3H4UoOs
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@tractorventures have launched The Hard Mode podcast and our co-founders @GlennFloat and @lgelfan are featured! 🎧🔥
Hear it firsthand 👇
Spotify: spoti.fi/3IAoTNa
Apple: apple.co/3IyfLZG
#hardmode #bootstrapped #founderstories #sustainablegrowth
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It's been an invigorating 48 hours, and with 30+ folks tuning in across 15+ countries, we still got some asynchronous mileage to go! ☀️🌕
Kudos to our Ops Manager @pogroberts for pulling this inaugural Remote Roadshow together. There's a loud encore to do it again! #bestworklife
The last stop of our Float Remote Roadshow was with our Director of Marketing @SiobHayes — who took us to the ❤️ of our marketing with our brand's why. A #bestworklife that empowers us to make most of our time. Why? Because how we spend our time matters.
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We then switched gears with Cam, Alan, and Tony presenting our product plans for Q1. After a milestone year, the team was inspired, curious, and eager to engage in a live Q&A at the end. 💬
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Director of Engineering @colinscape continued to share why investing in our people matters, driving this home by acknowledging that a happy and engaged team is more likely to thrive. #bestworklife
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Our CTO and co-founder @lgelfan set the bar today by sharing the principles that make a professional team. This included the motivation for new hires being to increase our capability—by bringing in new skill sets (ability) and resources to deliver (capacity). 🚀
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Day 2 of our Remote Roadshow 🌎🚐 has continued to inform, entertain, and energize the Float team. With department presentations from Engineering, Product, and Marketing, we're confident and very excited about the road ahead! 🛣🔥🤘
#remoteallhands #async #asyncremote #townhall
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The aim of our presentations is to inform, entertain, and energize the team—30+ folks working across 15+ countries.
With day 1 of the Float Remote Roadshow down for some, and about to begin for others, it's safe to say that we're all on board and buckled in! 🚐🌏🤘
#bestworklife
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Wrapping up day 1 was our Director of Customer Success, Alison. She gave some terrific insights into the goals and roles of the customer success team, how we can help folks get the most value out of Float and enhance their experience. 🙌
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Ops Manager @pogroberts gave an update on company processes that will help us to be more efficient, shared some exciting news about family leave benefits in 2022 (we'll announce this publicly soon), and got everyone jazzed about where in the world we're going to meet up! ✈️🌎❤️
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Our CEO and co-founder @GlennFloat kicked off sharing insights from @Adobe's The Future of Time report, welcoming new folks, thanking the team, and getting us energized and aligned on what's to come. 🚀🤘
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We've hit the road with our inaugural Float Remote Roadshow! 🚐🌏 Our Town Hall meets have evolved into a new async-first format. Over the next 48 hours, we'll be staging department presentations across regions that the team can dial into and ask questions live or catch up async.
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Meet the new Timeline: Simple, insightful, and personalized 🎉
📈 Know your capacity + utilization rates at a glance
🙇 Focus on your individual workload with a new "Me" view
🔍 Drill down into the details with powerful and intuitive filters
Learn more👉 buff.ly/31habKj
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New feature: Time off policies 🗓🏝
Our new time off policies helps you to better manage your team's vacation, sick days, and other scheduled time off in Float. Each person's leave balance is displayed in real time, so your team knows if they're over or under their allocation.
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Co-founder and CEO @GlennFloat on The Bootstrapped Startup answers an audience question on knowing when and who to hire. Thanks to @tractorventures @LaunchVic @ga for hosting, and fellow panelists @cherieclonan @KateKendall @JodieImam.
Ps. We’re hiring! float.com/careers/
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