Author Archives: Vickie MacLean

(Jan 2020) Employee – “Hey, I need to work from home today, I have a carpenter coming in during lunch.” Boss – “Please mark it as an unplanned leave. We do not promote WFH as a culture. Sends a bad message to the rest of the team.” (3 months later) Boss – “This is a critical release, can you WFH […]

In these times, with the pitfalls of remote working, leading a discussion in a virtual event is not uncommon. However, when it comes to an event for Atlassian Community (ACE), where we share knowledge with Jira users and subject matter experts of the Atlassian community, it is very important that you make the presentation compelling […]

It’s been little over a month, since we started staying indoors to practice Social distancing with the goal to flatten the curve. By now, you probably have read at least 5-10 post on effective remote working on LinkedIn, received forwards on Whatsapp, shared posts on Instagram including cooking challenges, workout videos and cribbed about the […]