Office lobbies want to take away the freedom of choice where and when we work. Why is it happening?

• The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world – it showed that our work could be done anywhere. It’s about the outcome, not the time or the location.

• There was a moment when we all thought that this would be our new standard of work…

• But the rainy days have come – most businesses still haven’t adapted to the change.

• They just copied & pasted the “office way of working” to the new, remote environment. With all its flaws: lack of trust, micromanagement, wrong communication behaviors, undefined ways of collaboration, and many more.

• And guess what? It’s not working out (at least for them), so they are trying to push back.

But WE, the employees know that the future of work is remote-first, and we will fight for it.

✅ Support Remote-First Institute’s mission to help transition 100,000 companies to remote-first by the end of 2025. 

Help yourself, help your peers.

If you donate, what can you get?

1. Ambassador ($9: one-time)
   Remote-First know-how to your inbox (monthly newsletter).
2. RFI membership ($49: one-time)
   Remote-how Academy access and community events.
3. “Out-of-office” hoodie ($79: one-time)
   A black hoodie with a print. 
4. Ticket to Running Remote ($749:one-time)
   Join the world’s largest remote work conference (April 25-26th, 2023 | Lisbon, PT).
5. Expert Membership ($799: lifetime) 
   A space for remote-first changemakers’ to learn, contribute, and network.
6. Remote Work Score (RWS) – partner donation ($999:one-time)
   Official supporter of our RWS Grant.
7. Corporate education program ($2,399: one-time) 
   Learning resources, live events, and peer-to-peer support for employees (up to 1,000).
    

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Let’s fight together the #BackToTheOffice lobby! 

How are we going to make this happen? 

For Season #1, we are crowdfunding $50,000 to sponsor the 5 most-voted community initiatives called Paid Grants. This would allow us to support the remote-first transition of the initial group – 1,000 companies.

• Members with voting rights decide which grants get funding.
• Members can create grants or apply to participate in them.
• We already have several grants approved by the community, which are awaiting funding incl. Remote Work Score – free team assessment, Head of Remote course, open-sourced Remote-First Playbook, and Remote-First Certification for companies.

How have we started the Institute?

• Many of our members led distributed teams or advised them for 5+ years. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, as remote experts, book authors, and practitioners, we did our best to give back to the community. But we felt we need more coordination and a larger scale.
• In September 2021 a group of remote-first activists launched the Remote-First Institute. A global not-for-profit organization that curates education programs, fosters community learning and creates high-quality content.

What have we done so far?

In just 6 months, the community:

• launched 84 mini-projects in the remote-first education space
• raised $60,000+ from donors
• grew to 741 members from 84 countries
• got on board activists from top remote-first companies Doist, GitLab, or Buffer.

What do our members think about RFI?

• “The Remote-First Institute is well-organized and informative! Led by inspiring leaders – well done!”Julie Lavergne
• “Thank you for a fab job with the RFI. I really enjoyed the sessions so far.”Vera Lakmaker
• “Very insightful with a lot of new techniques – this session opened my eyes on how to improve the remote setup.” Angelo B. J. Luidens
• “I attended the 5 tips for better virtual and hybrid meetings – what a great session!” Zainab Fatima Bokhari

Who is behind the Institute?

Our Founding and Honorary Members include:

• Dr. Beat Buhlmann, Lecturer & Author
• Ginger Dhaliwal, Co-founder @ Upflex
• Chris Dyer, Former CEO @ People G2
• Mine Dedekoca, Founder @ Happy Work Studio
• Marek Grygier, Co-founder @ Remote-how
• Michael Gutman, LinkedIn Learning Instructor
• Nadia Harris, Founder @ RemoteWorkAdvocate
• Lavinia Iosub, Founder @ Remote Skills Academy
• Jim Kalbach, Chief Evangelist @ Mural
• Adam Ambroży & Larissa Menocci, Co-founders @ MakeTeamWrok
• Iwo Szapar, Co-founder @ Remote-how
• Maaria Tiensivu, Founder @ Innovation Distributed
• Valentina Thorner, Guardian of Remote @ Klaus
• Sophie Wade, Workforce Innovation Specialist
• Chase Warrington, Head of Remote @ Doist

DONATE or SHARE fight the #BackToTheOffice lobby!