This year the Irish Department of Rural and Community Development launched an ambitious policy for rural Ireland and committed to looking into relocation programmes. As we move towards a place where companies advertise jobs without any location, we have both risks and...
Automattic are a member of the Grow Remote Employer Partnership Program and are regular contributors to our Remote Work Ready training program, which we run in partnership with LOETB, IDA Ireland and Solas. We asked Rebecca Williams from Automattic and Kat Slater,...
Today marks a huge step towards a vision of a thriving and vibrant rural Ireland, where opportunities are available to everyone, no matter where they live. At Grow Remote we strongly welcome the Government’s plan ‘Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025’...
One of the most dramatic transformations we have witnessed over the past year has been the shift to remote working, with employers everywhere being forced to shutter their doors and find ways to make remote working work for their people and for their businesses. ...
Remote work can be a game-changer for gender equality – but companies need to adapt to ensure everyone benefits equally.When it comes to the conversation around remote work and women’s progression in the workplace there are usually two opposing sides, with remote work...
Coworking spaces are in a growing number of rural communities in Ireland. You can find them all on NACEC here. Far bigger than the initial link with startups, they’re solving for real social issues around the changing main street, de-population, and the rapid rate of...
This post originally appeared on ChangeX at the very early stage of our journey. Grow Remote joined ChangeX as an idea partner in 2018 when they were ready to scale their idea across Ireland. Using changex.org as their community platform allowed Grow Remote to move...
Below is a guest post by Tracy Keogh. There is something truly magic about rural places, and especially rural Ireland. It’s an intangible thing. In trying to explain the 100s of touch points in the building of Grow Remote, one man came to mind — Monsignor Horan. He...
'We Make Remote Work Local' is our tagline. That's because the gap between remote work and local impact exists because there is no business model in making remote work local. We spoke about that here. We wanted to go a little bit deeper into how we do that. Although...
There are 100s of coworking spaces all across Ireland. They're not just for remote workers. They house startups, freelancers, and large local enterprises too. For remote workers they can help us have a distinction between work and home, but not every company allows...