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21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams

Brought to you by Virtual not Distant, the 21st Century Work Life podcast looks at leading remote teams, online collaboration and working in distributed organisations.

Join Pilar Orti, guests & co-hosts as they shine the spotlight on the most relevant themes and news relevant to the modern knowledge worker.

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Dec 20, 2022

In this What’s Going On episode, Maya and Pilar review how new ways of working have landed in organisations and how the freelance landscape is evolving - mainly in relation to remote work. Recorded on 5 December 2022.

They cover the following articles:

Is it time to revisit unproductive flexible working arrangements?...


Dec 8, 2022

Today's guest is Daphnée Laforest, who is also helping organisations adopt asynchronous practices to make remote work sustainable. 

Daphne is the host of the podcast The Remote First podcast, which started during the pandemic to help companies adopt remote work, and now it focuses on optimising new ways of...


Nov 24, 2022

We had a problem with our previous file, so just in case you couldn't access it from your app earlier on, here it is. 
(We had to edit something at the last minute...)

In this What’s Going On episode, Maya and Pilar talk about how online education is evolving and what this means for the future workforce, the rise of...


Nov 24, 2022

In this What’s Going On episode, Maya and Pilar talk about how online education is evolving and what this means for the future workforce, the rise of births linked to remote work, as well as a couple of news around tech and our community.  Recorded on 15 November 2022.

The beginning of the episode covers online...


Nov 10, 2022

Today’s episode is a bit different. Pilar is joined by Theresa Sigilitto Holleman, who specialises in leadership for global virtual teams, and is the author of the book Virtual Teams Across Cultures: Create Succesful Teams Across the World.

They discuss how Pilar’s article Key Mindset Changes for the New Remote...