Talking Remote Team Management with Time Doctor Co-Founder Liam Martin

On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jason and Jim welcome Liam Martin for a discussion and debate around remote work in general, fostering collaboration with remote teams, and how to manage a remote workers.

Liam is a serial entrepreneur who runs Time Doctor and Staff.com – one of the most popular time tracking and productivity software platforms in use by top brands today. He is also a co-organizer of the world’s largest remote work conference – Running Remote. Liam lives in Canada but travels 3-6 months out of the year due to his ability to work wherever and whenever he likes.

While both Jason and Liam support the ability for workers to choose where and when they work, they have different perspectives which will lead to a rousing and exciting conversation.

Episode Highlights

• [01:25] – Introductions
• [05:00] – Un-retired snowbird.
• [09:00] – Is remote-first scalable?
• [14:30] – What is the most obscure place where you have an employee based?
• [17:35] – What would you say to companies that would rather have nothing than hire a remote employee?
• [23:20] – Designing your remote team.
• [28:15] – Yahoo! and remote work.
• [33:45] – Experiences with time and activity tracking software.
• [39:50] – Is there a single way to run a remote team or company?
• [43:10] – Can you innovate and collaborate as a remote-first company?
• [46:25] – Liam’s recommendations for convincing a company to allow you to work remote.
• [55:00] – Remote work in 10 years.
• [56:30] – Wrap-up
  
  

Items We Mentioned

• Time Doctor
• Running Remote Conference
• Running Remote YouTube Channel
• Dunbar’s Number
  
  

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