Happy June, co-remote workers of the Triangle! Hope you're all enjoying what's probably those last few weeks where it's pleasant to do some outdoor remote working before it gets brutally hot. If you're ever in the market for some new coffee shops to try out, you can always check out our spreadsheet of good remote work spots around the Triangle. Some of my personal favorite venues with outdoor seating are Namu, Guglhupf, Caffe Driade and Duke University. Just a few bits of news from us this...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Happy May, co-remote workers of the Triangle! And hello after a bit of a hiatus from this newsletter. I hope you've all been enjoying the separate Thrive Remotely newsletter put out every week by our parent group, with all sorts of resources and musings on how to thrive in your life as a remote professional. This Triangle-specific newsletter will be a bit less frequent as we put more time into that one, but we'll still pop in regularly with news, events and anything else relevant to remote...
3 months ago • 5 min read
Happy May, co-remote workers of the Triangle! And hello after a bit of a hiatus from this newsletter. I hope you've all been enjoying the separate Thrive Remotely newsletter put out every week by our parent group, with all sorts of resources and musings on how to thrive in your life as a remote professional. This Triangle-specific newsletter will be a bit less frequent as we put more time into that one, but we'll still pop in regularly with news, events and anything else relevant to remote...
3 months ago • 5 min read
Happy November, co-remote workers of the Triangle! Hope you've all had a chance to vote, or are prepping to do so by Tuesday. This one's going to be a nail biter! Our big news this month is the launch of a new newsletter, which most of you have probably begun to receive already, called Thrive Remotely. You may remember a few months ago I told you all about a confederation of remote worker/digital nomad groups like ours that we'd become a founding member of, called United Digital Nomads. That...
9 months ago • 5 min read
Happy October, co-remote workers of the Triangle! Hope everyone managed to stay above the floods last week. Thoughts are with our friends in Asheville and our sister group AVL Digital Nomads, who got battered pretty badly and are still grappling with the fallout. In the Triangle, September has again come and gone with false hope of it cooling down significantly, but October tends to enter that sweet spot of the year when it's actually very pleasant to stay outside for long periods. So seize...
10 months ago • 4 min read
Happy September, co-remote workers of the Triangle! By now we're seeing college students pour back into the Triangle, and with temperatures dipping to merely the mid-80s most days now, I'm gearing up into full Mr. Autumn Man mode, ready to start hitting some nice outdoor coffee shops and restaurants to work from. If you too are looking for some new venues to try, you should check out this awesome spreadsheet put together by our awesome organizer Melody Jaros. In it, you'll find different tabs...
11 months ago • 5 min read
Happy August, co-remote workers of the Triangle! To start us off this edition, I thought I'd share a few pieces of interesting research related to remote work that's just come out. The first is a study published in Nature on hybrid work. With many companies now trying to bring employees back to the office, and employees pushing back against those efforts, the hybrid model — a mix of a few days in office and a few days WFH — is emerging as the most common compromise. Still, some stubborn...
about 1 year ago • 8 min read
Happy July, co-remote workers of the Triangle! While the Triangle has enviable weather most months of the year, July is unfortunately not among them. So I hope you're finding some time to fully exploit your remote status to explore cooler pastures...or at least some pastures near cool bodies of water. If so, you might be experiencing the latest workplace concept to gain its own special name. First there was "quiet quitting," followed by "quiet firing." Now, there's "quiet vacationing,"...
about 1 year ago • 9 min read
Happy April, co-remote workers of the Triangle! After a regrettably long hiatus from this newsletter, we're back, and hopefully have some news good enough to make it worth the wait. One thing you might have noticed recently is a slight change in our name/logo. We're now Triangle Remote Workers & Digital Nomads. There are a few reasons for tacking on the "& Digital Nomads" bit. When I first started this group nearly three years ago, I was a bit torn about whether to frame it as a group for...
over 1 year ago • 9 min read