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#10: Remote work, employees’ happiness and forsaking a venture round - Sarah Hawley
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The pandemic seemed to have made remote work a common place. It even felt like the world would never be the same again. Yet, some companies including tech giants like Google announced returning their workforce back to offices. Others introduce a hybrid mode that requires presence in the office a few days a week. Remote work, inevitable for many in times of crisis, turned out to be hard to embrace when this crisis dissipated. Why? And how can we truly reap its benefits?
I discuss this topic with Sarah Hawley, CEO and Founder of Growmotely, a platform connecting companies with remote-first professionals. Sarah shares her story of turning her company remote in 2014 when most of the world would find this a bizarre idea. For her, it was a courageous step to freedom, to being the creator of her own destiny.
Topics we explore:
- Fears that leaders have around remote work and how we can overcome them and start building a high-performing distributed team.
- How employees’ happiness translates into business results.
- How remote work can help humanity to break all sorts of barriers and fight unconscious bias.
- How raising venture capital can be a terrible energy drain for a founder that yields no financial results but leads to experimentation and exploration of alternative funding mechanisms.
About Sarah Hawley:
Sarah Hawley is the CEO and Founder of Growmotely, the world's first end-to-end platform that facilitates conscious companies in hiring equally-conscious remote professionals - of all nationalities - into long-term remote jobs.
Driven by her passion for the freedom that remote work provides professionals and companies alike, she is trailblazing the space - as a thought leader and creator - where remote work, conscious leadership, and personal and professional growth intersect.
Before Growmotely, she started and successfully sold multiple companies for seven-figure sums. Sarah is mother to 1-year-old Luka, and author of the book 'Conscious Leadership: a Journey from Ego to Heart'. Sarah is based in Austin (Texas), USA.
About Darya Kamkalova:
Darya wears many hats: she is podcaster, a data industry professional, a startup mentor, a co-founder of Manifest Taproom (a craft beer bar in Berlin), and a speaker.
Her experience in the data industry spans 10 years, five continents and such domains as data monetisation & acquisition, data product development, strategic partnerships as well as data marketplace business operations.
Darya has been driving or supporting various projects empowering women since 2013. She is based in Berlin.
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