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The State Of Work is about finding your place in the changing world of work, as an individual or an organisation. Each episode, we'll dive into some of the benefits and limitations we face when it comes to remote and flexible work. And take a look at how we work, how we hire and manage people, and how we live in this increasingly global workplace. The State Of Work is brought to you by Lano.io, a global employment and remote work platform.
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Apr 20, 2023
How to create meaningful relationships in remote teams
Working in a hybrid or fully remote setup comes with many positive opportunities, but can also be challenging, especially when transitioning into a new work environment.
That is why the mental health startup Likeminded is dedicated to providing mental health and wellbeing support to people in remote and hybrid setups, and provide support for leaders and their employees.
Our host Sandra is talking to Likeminded Co-CEO Kimberley Breuer to hear about their mission statement, what well-being looks like in a remote or hybrid workspace, and what skills the workforce of tomorrow will need to thrive in our new world of work.
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Mar 15, 2023
How to get organizations and their people ready for the future of work
The way we work has changed tremendously over the last couple of years, and so has the way companies and their workforce interact.
Heather McGowan is a keynote speaker and adviser who helps organisations and their people to get ready for the future of work. She joins from the East Coast of the US to share her insights on what companies need to do to enter the next stage of work, and make sure they are leading with compassion and authenticity, rather than pressure and punishment.
Heather has worked with some of the biggest players and is doing her very best to help prepare these companies for the future of work, so we are very excited to have her on and to get to pick her brain on what needs to change for us all to succeed now, and in the future.
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About Heather McGowan
Digitization, automation, and the reduction in hand-powered creation transformed the way we work almost overnight.
As we enter this new era of the future of work, referred to by keynote speaker Heather E McGowan and others as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we can let technology do what it does best and liberate humans to unleash their potential, with a focus on empowerment, ultimately creating the Organizations of Tomorrow. This liberation will make work more human, empowering people everywhere through diversity, equity and inclusion to bring their unique selves to the task of solving global challenges, innovating new ways of thinking, and transforming the way we relate to our businesses, our work, and the world. That is, if we’re ready to learn and adapt to this transition.
Future-of-work expert, female keynote speaker and leading strategist Heather E McGowan has helped organizations everywhere, from start-ups to publicly traded Fortune 100 companies, in their mission to navigate this ongoing revolution. Leveraging her background in industrial design, business strategy and academia, Heather helps audiences shift the way they think about the world around them.
Everywhere she goes, clients and audiences are amazed by the way she communicates incredibly complex topics in straightforward, authentic, powerful “light-bulb” moments that are both breathtaking and simple to execute. In short, in a one hour keynote, Heather helps you shift the context around which you navigate— she makes you think differently.
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Feb 22, 2023
How remote work supports regional development (in emerging markets)
Rowena Hennigan is the embodiment of remote work. Having moved from her native Ireland to Zaragoza in Spain to help with her daughter’s asthma, she has since built a remote business that aims to highlight the positive opportunities remote work can bring to communities.
We want to talk to her about exactly these opportunities, and how especially rural areas can benefit from the economic power behind remote work. I am also interested to hear what her essentials are for setting up a successful remote work hub, and our host Sandra most definitely wants to know what she would say to CEOs who want to move their employees back into the office and away from remote work.
About Rowena
Rowena Hennigan is a speaker, professor, and founder of RoRemote.
Rowena is passionate about the flexibility and well-being that digital nomadism can offer individuals and families. Even before the pandemic accelerated the growth of remote work, Rowena recognized the market need for training on remote work skills. She started RoRemote, a remote skills training and consultancy company, back in 2018 and coauthored academic courses at TU Dublin on remote work skills. And in 2022, LinkedIn News named her one of the 10 Top Voices in Remote Work. Rowena currently lives in Spain with her location-independent family.
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Jan 25, 2023
How to build and grow a company during a global pandemic
The last couple of years have been tough for many companies. The global pandemic has caused a recession and these uncertain times meant that many businesses had to have huge layoffs. But not Localyze. And in this episode, we are speaking with co-founder and CEO Hanna Marie Asmussen about how she managed to build and grow her business over the past couple of years. We are getting candid and ask her if she had any difficulties finding investors, if she is scared of failing and if in her opinion, it is more challenging for female founders to succeed.
About Hanna Asmussen
She is the CEO & Co-Founder of Localyze, a global mobility platform for companies and employees. With a passion for living abroad, having been an expat for 10 years and speaking 6 languages, Hanna co-founded Localyze after seeing the pain points associated with moving internationally for work. With a mission to build a borderless world, Localyze recently closed a $35 million Series B round and is expanding into the US.
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Dec 14, 2022
How to digitize the recruitment process
Matt Alder is a talent acquisition and innovation consultant, the host of the recruiting future podcast and author of 2 books on how to recruit the right talent. So who better to talk with about digitising the recruitment process?
Matt shares some actionable steps you can take to set up a digital recruitment strategy and shares his thoughts on what the current technology trends are in the space.
We also discuss the importance of using different digital channels such as social media or career pages to support the hiring process, and take a look at the future developments that are likely to shape the digital hiring process.
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Dec 7, 2022
How to pick the right payroll solution
Today’s episode is all about payroll, and we have a proper expert with us to speak about this super important topic:
Anita Lettink has helped thousands of HR professionals and people leaders around the world to get ready for the future of work - and that includes advising them on global payroll processes to pay an increasingly remote workforce.
We are talking about how companies can choose a payroll solution that works for them, and what factors could and should influence that decision. Anita also shares how important data and data transparency especially is when it comes to payroll, and explains how to integrate such a solution into existing HR technologies.
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Nov 30, 2022
How to find your dream remote candidate
In this episode, we are chatting to Alex van Klaveren, who is the co-founder and the CEO of Kandidate. Kandidate is an embedded recruiting company that does things a little bit differently. They send their talent partners to work as internal recruiters in their clients' businesses, to help increase the speed and the quality of the hiring process.
Alex talks us through the reasons behind this unique approach and gives some very good insights into how to find out if not only a candidate, but also the hiring company is remote ready.
He also shares some tips for a successful interview process and what questions are best to avoid when trying to find the right candidate.
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Nov 24, 2022
Can remote work help to reinvent our cities and the way we live?
What will life in the city centres of the world look like in the future with an increasing remote workforce? That is exactly what host Sandra is talking about with Arnaud Devigne, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Jobgether.
Arnaud has some very interesting thoughts and ideas about how remote and hybrid work will affect the downtowns and CBDs around the globe, and what companies and governments can do to reinvent these spaces.
They also talk about the change in company cultures and that throwing a pizza party is no longer enough to make employees come to the office.
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Nov 17, 2022
How to make remote work work
Iwo Szapar has been working remotely pretty much for his entire professional life - and has turned his passion for new work concepts into a career.
As the founder of Remote-How, he advises and trains thousands of companies on how to make remote and hybrid work work. And as the co-founder of the Remote-First Institute, he is actively working on setting global standards for remote work.
He has a fascinating conversation with our host Sandra about his journey to remote work, why he believes we need global standards and what he would say to Elon Musk to convince him to go remote. We also take a look at what is next and how far remote work could go in the future.
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Sep 15, 2022
How to choose the best benefits package for remote teams
Work environments have changed tremendously in the past couple of years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has done a fair bit to kickstart a new remote work movement. Today, employers have to rethink their benefit packages to match the new needs of employees - and that’s exactly what Lona Alia, Head of Revenue at Safetywing, is here to talk about today.
She joins host Sandra from a family friendly co-working space in Portugal to discuss how Safetywing chooses which benefits to offer, how to find the right benefit strategy for globally distributed teams, and what companies can do to identify the right and the wrong types of benefits.
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Sep 8, 2022
Direct hiring vs. agency - What is the better option for my company?
In this episode, we have 17 years of HR and recruiting experience coming right at you in the form of Adam Bolton, Director of Talent at Currencycloud.
Adam joins from his lovely home office in Ireland to talk all things recruiting - from first building a team around him, to switching their interview process during Covid, to following a direct hiring approach in their talent strategy.
He also shares how important knowing the culture of a company is for a successful hiring process, and shares some funny anecdotes about interviews gone wrong, including his own unfortunate experience with a pinstriped suit and a bubblegum on a train. Listen on for the whole story.
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Aug 31, 2022
How to build and manage successful remote first companies
What is better than one founder? That’s right, 2 founders! Today, we are talking with Bernat Farrero, founder of Factorial HR, as well as our very own Aurel Albrecht, founder of Lano.
Both companies have a hybrid approach, meaning that they have employees working in the office as well as remotely. That is not always easy, and the two of them share how they manage their day to day business life and give some great advice on how to create a smooth transition from in-office to remote.
This episode is for everyone who wants to know more about founding a hybrid or global first company, or who simply wants to get some insight scoop on how to manage a hybrid and remote business.
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Aug 24, 2022
Compensation strategy: How much should I pay my global employees?
We are back with Paul Arnesen from Talentroo for a deep dive into global compensation. We had Paul on before, and if you haven’t listened to that episode, it’s called “How to recruit the best talent for global expansion”, so make sure to check that out.
In that episode, he already mentioned the importance of a global compensation strategy, which is exactly what host Sandra and Paul talked about in their second conversation. So if you are looking into hiring remote employees, or scaling up your already existing remote workforce, this is the episode to listen to.
Paul explains how companies can approach the topic of global compensation, and which strategies to choose from. He also gives some real life examples and advice on how to decide how much to pay your remote employees, while explaining the different implications global compensation can have on the national workforce of a country.
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Aug 18, 2022
The importance of mental health in times of home office & remote work
Mental health has become more and more important, especially over the last 2 years, and especially in the workplace. We need to break the stigma of asking for help when we need it, and companies need to show up to support their employee’s mental wellbeing.
That is exactly what our host Sandra talked about with Eva Schneider, who is an ambassador for mental health with a special focus on workplace mental wellbeing. Her mission is to empower organizations to embed mental health into their work culture, and provide a safe space for everyone to share how they are really feeling.
In this episode, she shares her own experiences when working with companies and gives some real life tips on how employers can support their workers to maintain good mental health, and not just jump the gun when their employees are already in crisis.
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Aug 11, 2022
How to pay your employees in crypto
Let’s talk about crypto currency. It’s been the topic of conversation over the last couple of years - and it is more than fair to say that crypto is here to stay. This is also what Rodrigo Rosa believes, who joined our host Sandra from his workation in Lisbon to talk about how to implement crypto currency in your payroll.
Rodrigo is the Head of Partnerships at Mode, a UK-based company that aims to make Bitcoin mainstream - and that includes enabling employers to pay their workers in crypto currency.
Sandra and Rodrigo talked about the advantages and challenges of a crypto payroll, and how companies can start paying their employees in bitcoin. Rodrigo is very passionate and knowledgeable in this space, and really made it easy to understand a rather complex topic, so we hope you enjoy listening to this episode.
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Jul 28, 2022
How to relocate international talent
Katharina Hilgers founded her company relokate because she wanted to help people from all over the world to experience an easier and more personal relocation process.
Launching her start up at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 certainly wasn’t easy, but she has persevered and is now 2 years and many success stories in with relokate.
She joined our host Sandra from her home office in Berlin to talk about her motivation for working with and for people, how she came up with the idea for her company, and what the biggest challenges are when relocating an employee.
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Jul 21, 2022
The great attrition: How to retain top talent
Martin is a people person, you can tell that right away when you start talking to him - which is why he has found his way into HR as the business unit director of Catenon, a multinational data-driven recruitment service.
He joined our host Sandra from their office in Barcelona, where he lives, to talk about a phenomenon that has affected businesses all over the world: the great attrition. He explains what great attrition means and what companies can do to keep their top talent.
Martin is very passionate about creating a sense of belonging and bringing back a more human approach to managing people, and hopefully we can pick his brain on this important topic some more in the future.
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Jul 14, 2022
How to recruit the best talent for global expansion
Paul Arnesen founded Talentroo in 2019, an independent recruitment agency that also works as a strategic human resource partner – and is a proud remote-first company. Paul and his team contract people from all over the world and support their clients in finding not only the right candidate, but also the right human resource approach for each employee.
Paul joined host Sandra from his sunny office in Italy to talk about what led him to start Talentroo, from initially conducting recorded interviews for businesses, to starting his own recruitment agency.
He also shared some insights about Talentroo’s vetting process for candidates and the important topic of global compensation, before giving some food for thought about what the future of work has to offer.
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Jul 7, 2022
The biggest trends and developments in the human resource space
Not only employees and businesses had to adapt to the new state of work that the pandemic has brought on. HR software providers also had to take a step back and see what really matters to their customers in a new working environment.
Sabrina Fiorin from German HR software company kiwiHR explained how they go about implementing new features to their product, and how important it is for them to have an active exchange with their clients about what would make their life’s easier.
Sabrina also shared some inside scoops about the unique challenges companies are facing today, and gave her thoughts on what the biggest trends and developments are in the human resource space.
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Jun 29, 2022
How to establish good leadership in remote work environments
Remote work has become a new normal for many companies and employees alike. Especially with the hit of the COVID-19 pandemic, employers started exploring new ways of working with their team, and we have seen an incredible uptake in remote work positions.
Sarah Hawley has been an advocate of remote work for many years, and has founded the world’s first ever remote work marketplace with Growmotely in 2020. She is incredibly passionate about the freedom and the opportunities remote work brings about.
In her chat with host Sandra, she talks about what drives her to do the work she does, how she managed the transition from an in-office company to a fully remote business, and how establishing open and transparent communication has helped her and her team to build an amazing company culture and spirit.
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Nov 16, 2021
How a tech recruiting platform boosts employee satisfaction, productivity and retention
Successful recruitment has a positive influence on employee satisfaction, productivity and retention. But with the global pandemic disrupting many traditional in-person recruitment events, and so recruiters and hiring managers are embracing bespoke service providers to help them recruit for more complex positions, especially those that now require a unique remote-work skillset.
For candidates, the once upwardly mobile are seeking more remote positions, with many companies and agencies now conducting the entire recruitment and onboarding process online.
Joining Maddie on this episode of The State Of Work is Moritz Drerup, the co-founder and managing partner of 42matches, a Berlin-based tech recruitment platform that matches global talent with European startups.
Listen to Morris and Maddie as they discuss the current and future states of recruitment and why it’s so important to build and hire based on a culture of trust.
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Nov 1, 2021
How Currencycloud mastered the shift to remote-first work
About Richard Arundel
As COO of Kenjo, HR software for European SMB, Francesco Carbone strongly believes in the potential of HR to bring about positive change in the workplace and within employees. He is passionate about studying what truly drives people and business and believes that the real impact happens at work. Francesco has more than 14 years of professional experience in various international technology companies such as LOVOO, PaulCamper (travel start-up) and the Innovation Hub. He has been involved in their development and growth and has extensive experience in successfully placing innovative start-ups in the market. His speciality is corporate culture and organizational development.
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Oct 25, 2021
Success Story: Nicole Gottselig
It’s another episode of Success Stories on The State Of Work, where host Maddie Duke chats to individuals about their experiences working remotely or in distributed teams.
This week’s guest is Nicole Gottselig, senior content marketing manager at Uberall, a global SaaS provider that offers digital location marketing solutions to their clients. Nicole is also an experienced mindfulness meditator and she speaks to Maddie about her journey in mindfulness meditation practice and and how she’s been facilitating in-person, remote, and hybrid meditation program to her colleagues at Uberall, resulting in an increase of happiness and wellbeing.
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Oct 19, 2021
Can hiring remote talent solve the tech skills shortage?
Global companies are facing a tech skills shortage, leaving a gap in the market for expert bespoke companies to connect job opportunities with a global talent pool. In the past, software developers have been lured by glamorous tech hubs such as Silicon Valley, but they’ve also been known as the original remote workers. So just how has the global pandemic changed the job marketplace for developers? And are more opting for relocation packages or are they seeking more remote work opportunities? And aside from financial perks, just whats sorts of benefits and company values are appealing to senior developers?
Remotely Works is a software development talent marketplace where US-based software companies can hire great, pre-vetted software engineers that work remotely from their home countries in Latin America. Remotely’s founding members originated at Olapic, where they built a 130-person strong team in Latin America, ranging from engineering to marketing, account management, finance, a…
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Oct 11, 2021
Success Story: Christina Voll
About Christina Christina helps aspiring freelancers and business owners change their lives with remote work. She’s worked as a freelancer and helped dozens of brands in multiple continents grow their online presence through digital marketing and growth strategy. After years of working as a freelancer, Christina chased a more purposeful route and took the leap to help others pursue their freelancing careers and be able to live a location-independent life. In January, she launched Rise Remotely – an e-commerce storefront of online education to help people to go remote or work better remotely.
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Oct 4, 2021
Designing creative solutions for optimal remote work environments
Flexible work empowers companies, employees and freelancers to optimize their creativity and productivity by allowing workers to choose surroundings that best align with their daily tasks. The last two years have seen an accelerated shift to remote work but this doesn’t always mean working from home or locking yourself into one coworking space contract is the most suitable option. Enter: independesk.
Serial entrepreneur and founder Karsten Kossatz is driven to change the world and create solutions that change our lives for the better. He founded independesk to utilize existing office infrastructure to be able to offer co-working solutions and for freelancers and remote workers to be able to find an on-demand flexible desk in their neighbourhoods. With the vision to make the working world more user centered, independesk has helped facilitate flexible and community-driven co-working, networking, and the opportunity to select from a variety of offices, coworking spaces, agencies and…
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Sep 27, 2021
Success Story: Fernando D'Imperio
About Fernando Fernando D’Imperio is a data engineer living and working in São Paulo, Brazil. Fernando has a degree in environmental engineering and an MBA in Business Analytics and Big Data. Previously at Monsanto and SumUp—as well as running his own electronic waste recycling company—Fernando is honing his profound curiosity, problem solving skills and passion for data by working remotely (and loving it) as a Data Engineer for Lano.
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Sep 21, 2021
How to manage payroll for globally distributed teams
With Denis Barnard, Director at HRmeansbusiness Ltd.
Denis is an industry veteran, with over 30 years experience in HR and payroll and also 20 years experience as a remote worker. He heads up HRmeansbusiness and GreenRiver Technology, is a partner at All Remotely, and is also a published author
As technology accelerates to include automation and AI, what does it mean for the current state of payroll? How are companies shortlisting from many providers on offer and how are these providers up-to-date with the ever evolving iterations of remote and distributed teams?
Join Maddie and Denis for a discussion about the current state of payroll, how to choose the right provider and what challenges lie ahead for both employers and employees as technology continues to accelerate.
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Sep 14, 2021
Success Story: Sibylle Greindl
Sibylle Greindl has years of experience as a freelance journalist and now lends her writing and storytelling skills as Head of Acquisition at Accountable, a Fintech mobile/web app that helps freelancers with tax and financial issues in Europe.
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Sep 7, 2021
How investing in leadership training creates a more successful organization
With Jenny Jung and Anna Löw, co-founders of MindTheLeader.
What does it mean to lead during disruptive and transformative times? What kind of soft skills do today’s leaders need and where can leaders (particularly HR managers) turn to for support?
On today’s episode of The State Of Work, Maddie is joined by MindTheLeader co-founders Jenny Jung and Anna Löw. Jenny and Anna started MindTheLeader to help companies to become successful and resilient organizations and to provide leaders with a range of services including organizational development, training, and systemic coaching.
Join the conversation as they discuss the role of the organization as a complex living organism, the role of the coach in leadership training, and just what people leaders need in their toolboxes in order to best support their organization and teams.
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Aug 30, 2021
Success Story: Sandra Redlich
This week we’re joined by freelancer Sandra Redlich, a copywriter, marketing consultant, and translator based in Melbourne, Australia. Originally from Berlin, Germany, Sandra relocated abroad to Australia just before the start of the global pandemic. She chats to Maddie about the joys and challenges of freelancing and what it’s like to relocate your freelance business abroad, as well as tips for creating routines, avoiding burnout, handling difficult clients, and celebrating successes.
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Aug 24, 2021
Can HR automation software help to boost employee engagement?
with Francesco Carbone, Chief Operating Officer at Kenjo.
Joining Maddie on The State Of Work is Francesco Carbone, Chief Operating Officer of Kenjo, a SaaS company that specialises in digitising and automating HR processes for small and medium size companies. Kenjo’s main objective is to automate HR administrative tasks, which allows HR people to really focus on growing and nurturing the professional and personal development of their employees.
Maddie and Francesco discuss the importance of measuring employee engagement, what employers can do and are doing to create a positive company culture, employee-driven team building events and how Kenjo is using technology to facilitate these processes across Europe and Latin America.
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Aug 17, 2021
Success Story: Sebastian Gellwitzki
with Sebastian Gellwitzki, Head of Partnership Management and Production Hub at simpleshow.
Welcome back to Success Stories, our new regular feature on The State Of Work. Maddie chats to individuals and their experiences about working in a remote or distributed team. This week we’re joined by Sebastian Gellwitzki, Head of Global Partner Management & Production Hub, simpleshow. Sebastian joins Maddie for a discussion about how simpleshow are using Lano to manage their globally distributed team of creative freelancers and how the Lano tool supports them with project management, invoicing and payments in multiple currencies and onboarding their global team of talent.
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Aug 10, 2021
How to navigate local taxes when scaling your business globally
with John Lee, Co-Founder of the Work From Anywhere team.
We've seen companies advertise ‘work from anywhere’ as part of their recruitment marketing campaigns. And as potential employees, it’s an incredibly appealing perk. But many workers and independent contractors are simply unaware of the impact it has on their taxes when it comes to where they reside, do their work, what their nationality is, and complications of double taxation laws.
On this episode we meet Irishman John Lee, co-founder of Work From Anywhere. He joins Maddie on The State Of Work to discuss the implications and obligations of everyone’s favourite topic… tax! In his research when starting Work From Anywhere, tax often came up as the number one pain point for employees and employers and so they developed a tool to help remote workers to facilitate their tax risk and provide them access to a global marketplace of tax advisers.
Maddie and John discuss the many risks involved with tax, from digital nomads,…
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Aug 3, 2021
Success Story: Halley Bennett
with Halley Bennett, Head of Marketing at Lano.
Introducing Success Stories, our new regular feature on The State Of Work. Maddie will be chatting to individuals and their experiences about working in a remote or distributed team. This week we’re joined by Halley Bennett, Head of Marketing at Lano.
"It has changed my life tremendously to be able to work from the location that is well suited to the lifestyle that I want to have, but also helps me be a more productive and successful member of a team."
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Jul 28, 2021
Best business practices for hiring, onboarding and working with freelancers
with Stefan Palios, writer and entrepreneur.
The pandemic changed the way businesses, companies, and other organizations view remote workers, particularly freelancers. When COVID-19 arrived, freelancers were seemingly ahead of the curve, all set up to work from home. Typically entrepreneurial and used to uncertainty, many freelancers are now seen as an integral part of business expansion, including both a long and short term growth strategy.
In this episode of The State Of Work, Maddie is joined by Canadian freelancer and remote work advocate Stefan Palios. As an experienced writer and coach, Stefan joins us on The State Of Work to share his best business practices when it comes to hiring, onboarding and working with freelancers and independent contractors.
As an experienced freelancer, Stefan believes that the best relationships between businesses and freelancers are a partnership, with each stakeholder playing their key role. He draws on his experience of successes (and failures…
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Jul 12, 2021
Building the HR toolkit of the future: The story behind Merge
With Shensi Ding and Gil Feig, co-founders of Merge.
At their weekly catchups, friends Shensi Ding and Gil Teig discovered they were facing similar integration problems across their respective industries. Combining their various expertise, they joined forces in 2020 to found Merge, a developer-friendly integrations platform that utilizes one API to integrate with all HR, payroll, recruitment, and accounting platforms.
B2B businesses can partner with the Merge API to offer a full category of integrations to their customers, allowing Merge to handle the full integrations lifecycle - from an easy initial build, to hand-held end-user onboarding, to fully managed maintenance.
Joining Maddie on The State Of Work to discuss their founder journey and how API integrations are helping their customers with their HRIS, ATS and accounting integrations, we welcome co-founders Shensi Ding and Gil Teig.
The State Of Work is brought to you by Lano. Lano makes it easy to build and manage your global…
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Jun 28, 2021
How a Fintech-as-a-Service platform is disrupting global mass payments
with Sarel Tal, VP EMEA at Rapyd.
The rise of remote work has created significant market development in the global payments industry. Companies and individuals are looking for efficient payment solutions that span multiple jurisdictions and currencies, and that can also be deployed at scale.
Founded in 2016, Rapyd is the world’s largest local payments network and is on a mission to “power frictionless global commerce”. Most recently, the API-based Fintech-as-a-Service platform raised $300 million in funding, after quadrupling their revenue in 2020. Raypd’s accelerated growth has expedited payments and created global opportunities for businesses to enter new markets. They serve a current client base that includes over 5000 businesses including eCommerce, tech companies and marketplaces.
The State Of Work welcomes Rapyd’s VP of EMEA Sarel Tal to the podcast. Maddie and Sarel chat about global payroll trends, the technology behind Rapyd and why commercial and financial intera…
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Jun 15, 2021
Demystifying remote work: Compliance for the new normal
with Bhagyashree Pancholy, lawyer and remote work compliance consultant.
Maddie and Bhagyashree take a deep dive into what is and what isn’t remote work (and why words matter), as well as the broader compliance risks businesses face when building and managing remote teams.
The State Of Work is brought to you by Lano. Lano makes it easy to hire and pay employees and contractors in over 150 countries in compliance with local laws and in over 50 currencies.
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Jun 1, 2021
Creating growth: Tips for effective remote product management
With Johnny Quach from Hostelworld.
Product management requires a unique combination of strategy, technology, design and the ability to find opportunities that will create impact—a crucial role that drives the success of modern companies.
In 2020, the global travel industry was hit heavily by COVID-19. Legacy travel booking company Hostelworld saw this disruption as an opportunity and used the time to get to work, mobilising their remote offices and teams in order to accelerate all the things they wanted to improve about their OTA product, an immense effort which resulted in one of their most productive years to date.
At Hostelworld, Chief Product Officer Johnny Quch leads a distributed team of over 150 people and chats with Maddie on The State Of Work about the importance of distributed team alignment, why strategy is so crucial for product managers, and how his multitude of external hobbies inspire growth and iteration across the board.
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May 19, 2021
Estonian e-Residency: The easiest way to start and manage a company in the EU
In this episode, Maddie is joined by Alex Wellman to discuss Estonia’s e-Residency program, their digital-first infrastructure, and how digital nomads and entrepreneurs can join 80 000 residents from over 170 countries who are making the most of less bureaucracy, reduced paperwork and increased digital services. Alex Wellman is part of a team leading Estonia’s e-Residency program, working to make e-Residency accessible to everyone in the world.
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The State Of Work is brought to you by Lano. Lano makes it easy to hire and pay employees and contractors in over 150 countries in compliance with local laws and in over 50 currencies.
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May 6, 2021
Key insights and tips for building and scaling a business remotely
With Ricardo Fernandez, Managing Director in Spain for Limehome.
Ricardo Fenandez knows a thing or two about remote work. He’s spent over 10 years working remotely, and has worked for more than 6 years managing and scaling remote teams in 8 countries and 10 locations. Currently he’s the managing director at leading digital hospitality brand Limehome and he joins Maddie on The State Of Work to share his insights and advice.
The State Of Work is brought to you by Lano. Lano makes it easy to hire and pay the best talent on the planet, wherever they may be.
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Apr 19, 2021
How to engage your remote team by building a community-first culture
with Lauren Piro, Head of People & Culture at Quiip.
Organizational culture defines both the behavioural standards and the working environment between a business and its employees. Whilst traditionally these were centered around social, in-person environments such as lunchrooms and the infamous water-cooler, the social and behavioural aspects of the remote work culture is now virtual and presents a different set of challenges.
In this episode of The State Of Work, Maddie is joined by Lauren Piro, the People & Culture Director at Quiip, community management specialists. As an experienced community manager since the early days of the internet to her current role leading the entirely distributed and remote-first team at Quiip, Lauren shares with our listeners how online communities thrive and survive and what principles we can take from them when it comes to building and nurturing a remote team culture that aligns with your organizational values.
The State Of Work is produced by Fiona…
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Apr 8, 2021
How radical transparency can improve productivity for remote teams
with Liam Martin from Time Doctor.
Metrics, transparency, accountability, and employee monitoring are very topical concerns for managers of distributed teams. And in order for remote businesses & freelancers to work together harmoniously, is radical transparency really the answer for increasing worker productivity? How does a time tracking tool increase productivity anyway?
Remote workers were disrupting the 40-hour working week long before the COVID global pandemic. Now, many businesses (who were not previously remote-first) have dramatically shifted their business models to rethink how they work, lead, manage and thrive. By 2025 it is predicted that up to 50% of the (US) workforce will be remote.
Does enabling workers to track their time help them to become more productive? Does productivity equate to greater worker satisfaction? Can business owners relax and rely on metrics to effectively manage their distributed team’s productivity? And how does data transparency impact the em…
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Mar 22, 2021
Overcoming remote working challenges in the creative industries: Film
With Marc-Daniel Dichant, Film Producer, Shoot’n’Post.
Working in creative industries has always been challenging, but the fall-out from COVID-19 for artists has been epoch-making even as the audience demand for film and entertainment has increased during global lockdowns. Pre-COVID, technology has been a major disruptor and game-changer for filmmakers and the entire film industry, but the shift to a purely remote workforce has come with numerous challenges.
Even in normal times, it takes a lot of vision and resilience to pursue a career in film. Film industry professionals were some of the original remote workers. Whether they were shooting films on location or attending film festivals and trade events; filmmakers, cast and crew were used to producing under demanding circumstances, in unusual locations, and for intense periods at a time.
In the first of our series focusing on creative industries, Maddie is joined by Oscar-nominated film producer Marc-Daniel Dichant. They discus…
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Mar 11, 2021
How remote-first businesses and freelancers can minimise their compliance risk
With Andrea Carlon from Lano.
How do you navigate hiring someone you’ve never met in person before? What legal challenges do businesses face when building, onboarding and paying a remote team? And as a freelancer, are you allowed to work a full-time workload for just one client?
Compliance is a crucial, challenging, and complex part of doing business that requires lots of expertise support. Each country has differing work, taxation and residency laws and requirements of its residents. From the business side, it means complying with social insurances, payroll taxes and reporting, contractual and labour law as well as dealing with the endless reporting to the relevant civil and administrative authorities.
Andrea Carlon is the Head of Partnerships at Lano. She joins host Maddie Duke on The State of Work. In this episode, Maddie and Andrea explore how businesses and freelancers can successfully ensure they’re running a compliant business, no matter where the company and team membe…
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Feb 24, 2021
Attracting and recruiting talent during a global pandemic
With Claire McNamara, Global Head of Talent Acquisition at ResearchGate.
ResearchGate is a social networking platform for scientists and researchers with over 19 million users. With a leadership team that includes two virologists, ResearchGate sprang into action quickly, shifting their team of almost 200 employees to a fully remote work setup during the onset of Covid-19.
As a senior recruiter with 20 years experience, Clare McNamara joins host Maddie Duke and shares her insights on the sudden shift to remote work, recruiting remotely, compliance challenges, navigating the psychological shift for employees as well as the complexities of talent relocation during border closures, travel restrictions and a continuing global pandemic.
The State Of Work is brought to you by Lano, providing all the tools necessary to build and manage a global team in one place, as well as an all-in-one app for freelancers to manage clients, invoices, and payments.
The State Of Work is produced by Fion…
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Feb 9, 2021
Investing in global-first startups with Cédric Waldburger
Investing in startups and remote work advocacy with founder and entrepreneur, Cédric Waldburger.
The State Of Work is brought to you by Lano, providing all the tools necessary to build and manage a global team in one place, as well as an all-in-one app for freelancers to manage clients, invoices, and payments.
The State Of Work is produced by Fiona Laughton and Maddie Duke.
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Feb 9, 2021
Rural innovation, digitization, and countryside coworking
Rural innovation, digitisation, and countryside coworking with Coconat co-founder and CEO Julianne Becker and freelance WordPress developer Mauricio Disilvestro.
The State Of Work is brought to you by Lano, providing all the tools necessary to build and manage a global team in one place, as well as an all-in-one app for freelancers to manage clients, invoices, and payments.
The State Of Work is produced by Fiona Laughton and Maddie Duke.
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Jan 21, 2021
Introducing: The State Of Work
Introducing The State Of Work, the podcast by Lano. The State Of Work is about finding your place in the changing world of work—as a business or an organisation. As trends continue to evolve, we need to radically rethink the way we work. We’ll take a look at how we work, how we hire and manage people, and how we live in this increasingly global workplace. The State of Work is brought to you by LANO, a global employment and remote work platform. Find out more at lano.io.
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