Company Wide Remote Guidelines

Vizzuality is remote friendly, staff can work remotely from a different city or work from the Madrid, Cambridge or Porto office but sporadically spend mornings/afternoons/days remote.

Employees who are fully remote will normally be required to spend some initial time (between 3 and 6 months) in one of the offices to get to know the team.

Because of the different locations and the flexibility in our working hours we have a few practices to help the team know who is available when, and where.

For all the team

It’s a good practice to use the active/away status on Slack to let others know when you are working. It’s also a good practice to check in & out on the general channel to let people know when you start and finish your day (also nice to say Hello and Goodbye to peers).

If you work regularly the same hours everyday, enable working hours in the Google Calendar under Settings > General > Working hours to let people know what times you’re working and when you’re available for meetings. This will warn people if they try to invite you to a meeting outside of these hours.

Some teams use additional practices to improve communication in general and bring the remote and non-remote staff together:

• daily “slack standup” - at the start of your day, describe what you did the day before and what you’re planning to achieve today
• weekly calls - the format may differ

For sporadic remote work

If you will be sporadically remote it’s a good idea to let your closer team know in advance, in case there was anything planned that requires your presence.

When you are working remote you can also update your Slack status (using the house icon or a foreign flag based on the country you’re in):

If you are abroad, update your Time Zone in Profile & account > Edit Profile > Time Zone so other people know which is your current time. Alternatively, you can just click on your name on any of your messages and click on Edit your profile.