“Was it for this the Wild Geese spread the grey wing on every tide?”
Welcome to the Grow Remote and the Wild Geese chapter! This group was set up on November 4, 2018 and is run by volunteers and mystic gladiators . We are keen to build a thriving community of remote workers in and around Lough Derg. Our HQ is based in Portumna, Co. Galway. However, our community has no boundaries, borders or frontiers.
Not everyone leaves or should feel the need to leave their home to find an opportunity to work. Lough Derg and environs is a treasure chest of highly skilled and educated people working or not working. The aim of this group is not only to raise awareness of the opportunities of working remotely but to build a community where you can work remotely together and look for support on your journey.
According to this Remote How Survey, 62% of people don’t work remotely because they don’t know where to start. We want to change that for our 200,000+ remote workers and those who would like to convert to remote working.
Who is the Wild Geese for?
Regardless of your industry, background or whether you're working remotely full time, we are keen to have you on board. This is an opportunity for:
Remote Workers
Traditional Workers who would like to try out Remote Work
Our Diaspora - who are looking for an opportunity to return home
Parents of our Diaspora who would like to learn more!
The Curious - those of you who have not heard about remote work
The Homemakers - those of you who paused your working life to nurture our young geese
Become one of Wild Geese first members and be the first to share in its vision, and support the work of its volunteers.
Grow Remote hope to reinvent how people work, share knowledge, tell stories, and inspire more people to experience this way of life.
A note from the founder of Grow Remote
Welcome to Grow Remote on ChangeX! We're building a national movement to connect remote workers in Ireland. We believe we’re in the middle of a seismic change in ways of working that opens up a whole new opportunity for a better quality of life, for remote workers and for rural Ireland. We'll help you do this in your local community by starting a Grow Remote Chapter.
Tracy Keogh
Founder of Grow Remote
“Was it for this the Wild Geese spread the grey wing on every tide?”
Welcome to the Grow Remote and the Wild Geese chapter! This group was set up on November 4, 2018 and is run by volunteers and mystic gladiators . We are keen to build a thriving community of remote workers in and around Lough Derg. Our HQ is based in Portumna, Co. Galway. However, our community has no boundaries, borders or frontiers.
Not everyone leaves or should feel the need to leave their home to find an opportunity to work. Lough Derg and environs is a treasure chest of highly skilled and educated people working or not working. The aim of this group is not only to raise awareness of the opportunities of working remotely but to build a community where you can work remotely together and look for support on your journey.
According to this Remote How Survey, 62% of people don’t work remotely because they don’t know where to start. We want to change that for our 200,000+ remote workers and those who would like to convert to remote working.
Who is the Wild Geese for?
Regardless of your industry, background or whether you're working remotely full time, we are keen to have you on board. This is an opportunity for:
Remote Workers
Traditional Workers who would like to try out Remote Work
Our Diaspora - who are looking for an opportunity to return home
Parents of our Diaspora who would like to learn more!
The Curious - those of you who have not heard about remote work
The Homemakers - those of you who paused your working life to nurture our young geese
Become one of Wild Geese first members and be the first to share in its vision, and support the work of its volunteers.
Grow Remote hope to reinvent how people work, share knowledge, tell stories, and inspire more people to experience this way of life.
A note from the founder of Grow Remote
Welcome to Grow Remote on ChangeX! We're building a national movement to connect remote workers in Ireland. We believe we’re in the middle of a seismic change in ways of working that opens up a whole new opportunity for a better quality of life, for remote workers and for rural Ireland. We'll help you do this in your local community by starting a Grow Remote Chapter.
Tracy Keogh
Founder of Grow Remote
Wayfairer are hiring for March. Follow the link below!
Grow Remote have partnered with Workplaceless to go one step further in bridging the gap between remote work and local impact.
They have opened up free places on the Workplaceless program where you can get trained and certified in all things remote.
This opportunity is only available until Friday 8th of February, 2019, so go ahead and sign up today at the link below. Just head to the checkout and enter the following code GROWREMOTE19 where you see the button APPLY CODE.
Take the first step, and then the next step, baby steps to success!
The Hub Portumna have kindly agreed to host our first Grow Remote Discovery Event on Saturday 10th February 2019. You are all welcome to drop into the Hub on Saturday to learn more about the movement, what it means to work remotely and how Grow Remote can support you. Trello, Buffer, Nearform, 10UP, just some of an the array of companies hiring remote workers right now.
On April 16th Grow Remote are bringing remote working companies, talent and communities experience the best of what rural Ireland has to offer with talks, meetups and the activities of the west.
We have launching super early bird tickets:
The line up includes....
Buffer - Marcus Wermuth
Trello / Atlassian - Jordan Mirchev
Teamwork.com - Ryan Mesches
Hoxby Collective - Alex, Co-Founder
Workplaceless - Tammy Bjelland
Bloomberg - Lorcan Roche Kelly, Markets Editor
Rural Online Initiative - Laurel Farrer
Read less together in Tubbercurry, Sligo.
Not to be missed! Early bird tickets below:
"There is one management strategy, however, that is easily implemented and immediately increases productivity while reducing costs: allowing employees to work from home and remotely, rather than forcing them to come into the office every day.
Overall, it's clear that there's currently no smarter management strategy than allowing employees to work from home. All the more so because your competition is probably still hung up on the irrational belief that it's effective to arm-twist everyone to come into work every day"