To work from home more efficiently, find ways to connect more often and create good documentation of practices

As Vox Media’s Elite Truong prepares to make the move from New York to a smaller city, and more employees elsewhere work remotely, she lists some ideas for how to work from home more efficiently. Among the ideas: Stay connected by finding ways to see each other through Skype or Google Hangouts and encouraging people to share their thoughts in those chats, and create well-written documentation of teams’ practices, even for questions as simple as, “How can I get a new user set up on a list of these needed accounts?”

+ Earlier: Upworthy gets staff to bond when most employees work remotely by holding company-wide “watch parties”

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