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...
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Our ChangeX Story
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...
Our Meitheal
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...
How we make remote work local
'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...
Companies that pay co-working stipends
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...
Why remote work isn’t just for tech people
There's a common miss conception that remote work is just for technical roles. That is incorrect. In remote first or all remote companies, most parts of the business have the option to be remote. It is often true that these kinds of companies tend to be tech...
Building Remote Ready Communities
In 2020, we asked our community what they felt would make a 'Remote Ready Community'. Here's what they told us: Illustrated by Orla Breslin who generously donated her skills to this project. Essentially, it came down to all of the human stuff. A good coffee shop...
Remote work is already here: it’s just not evenly distributed
At the moment, there are 650 remote job vacancies, at the very least, here in Ireland. That’s excluding the IDA’s recent announcement of 100 remote jobs. So why don’t more skilled jobseekers in the regions and rural Ireland know about them? Or to quote a community...
5 remote companies hiring designers in Ireland
If you're a designer and you want to work for brilliant companies who will let you work remotely, we have you covered. Metalab Metalab was founded in 2006 in Victoria, Canada by Andrew Wilkinson. Today it has over 130 employees and embraces remote working. MetaLab...
5 Companies hiring remotely in Ireland now
Searching for remote work? At Grow Remote, we'd love to help with supports online and offline. But first, an introduction to some of the brilliant companies you could be working for! Remote.com Remote was founded in early 2019 by Job van der Voort and Marcelo Lebre to...