The Grow Remote community consists of co-working managers, freelancers, digital nomads, remote workers, and companies who embrace remote working and who believe that all 3: jobs, workers and communities need to move together to enable our communities to thrive.
The aim of Grow Remote is to uncover and build a full community around remote working and to support our remote workers or workers considering working remotely. To do this, our focus is on the following key areas:
> Infrastructure (co-working spaces, broadband, online connection platforms)
> People (community leaders & advocates)
> Resources (education, tools to make this local, funding, remote job positions).
For companies, attracting and retaining talent is their primary challenge. Often they struggle to recruit and retain people with the skills and knowledge they need while for remote workers, lack of a real-world community is their biggest challenge.
Many workers are isolated at home and many more would join the remote working world if they knew of the employment opportunities available.
In parallel, rural communities are suffering often due to an over-reliance on few sectors for employment. Building a thriving remote working community in any town or village presents a great opportunity for both economic development and the social landscape of the town.
The Wild Geese chapter is one cog in the national Grow Remote movement. Our team plan to build a community both locally around Lough Derg and virtually casting our net far and wide to our many Diaspora scattered throughout the world.
Watch this space for details on both the real world and virtual world meetings open to everyone who wishes to embrace the concept and way of life that is Grow Remote.
“The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it IDEAS.
It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down - sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray.
At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing.
But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward.”
― Terence McKenna
