Cloud Office
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Cloud Office
At Hola we managed to make it possible to work from
everywhere!
We have invested a lot of efforts in creating the right
environment, the right tools, and the required procedures,
so that you would feel no difference if you work from our
headquarters, offices, from home, or from a local Cafe. All
you need is an Internet connection, to allow you to connect
to our Cloud Office.
The enhanced environment, tools, and procedures were evolved
to compensate for the fact you are not sitting together with
your peers in the same physical place, and to create
conditions equivalent to working next to your peers at the
same office.
Login and logout
While working remotely, you are requested to log in when starting your day of work. Once logged in, you actually
notify everybody you are "in the office", responsive, and
available for every incoming task.
It is sometimes unclear when you need to log out, namely: to
distinguish between real work, for which you are required to
be logged in, and your free time, when you should be logged
out.
Below you can find examples for both options:
- Reading emails
- Writing code
- Participating in all-hands meeting
- Talking to a customer
- Having lunch
- Upgrading your laptop
- Having a break that is longer than 5 minutes
While working from Hola headquarters, login and logout is used once you enter and leave the office.
Morning greeting
In a regular office, once starting your working day you
usually pass by your peers and manager and say "good
morning". At the Cloud Office, we are using IM applications
to do the same.
Start your day by posting "Good morning" to your manager and
peers, so that they know you are online and started your
day.
You can also notify your peers about your current status on one of the IM apps you
are using.
What to do next?
vp
Is my peer online?
contacts
What did I do today?
daily
Is working remotely fast enough?
servers are in the cloud