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Weatherproof your team: Work anytime, anywhere in Sococo

Sometimes, things happen. Plans to get your team together for an on-site can be foiled by canceled flights, traffic, and reservation mix-ups.   We’ve experienced this ourselves at Sococo. In January 2017, in the midst of winter storms that slammed the Pacific Northwest, our dev team had an on-site meeting planned in Eugene, Oregon. Despite […]

Your Work Friends Make You a Better Employee - Here's How

Advances in technology are making it easier and easier not to talk to the people we work with. Why meet with your colleague in person when you could give them a call, send them an email, or shoot them a chat? And, when your team is distributed between cities and time zones, that communication becomes […]

Hump Day: The Best Day of the Week to Work Remote ????

We all have different names for it: the middle of the week, Hump Day, Worst day. Whatever you call it, Wednesday is good for more than just getting us one step closer to the weekend—it’s also the best day of the week to work remotely. It may seem more logical to work from home or […]

The Top 30 Companies Leading the Remote Work Revolution

The future of work is here—and it’s remote. The remote work experts at FlexJobs (who are also long-time Sococo-ers) have identified the top 30 companies at the forefront of the distributed work revolution. Each of these companies runs effective and flexible remote teams that span a number of industries, from education to healthcare to tech. […]

The Future of "Going to Work"

For some, “going to work” means a long ride to an office building. For others, it’s just a walk down the hall to a home office. For a growing number of workers, “going to work” means plugging in headphones and flipping open a laptop at the local coffee house. These offices, homes, or coffee shops […]

4 Easy Icebreakers for Distributed Teams

Getting to know new coworkers is relatively easy when you work together in a physical office space. When you spot a new person at the water cooler, you can walk up and say hello, chat about weekend plans, and become better team members and collaborators as a result. But if you’re working from a home […]