We are living in unprecedented times, and many of us are grappling with a really similar set of complicated and, at times exhausting, emotions. I've been thinking about this a lot since my conversation with Margaret Francis, the SVP of Platform Data Services at Salesforce and former Heroku GM, in our recent podcast for Code[ish].
At Heroku, we have gone from roughly over half of our team being remote, to all of our team being remote. We, along with people all over the world, have suddenly found ourselves working from living rooms, laundry rooms, gardens, garages, sheds, and kitchens. It can be overwhelming at times—learning new skills and adjusting old ones—so we wanted to step back and celebrate the unique ways we’re all coping.
I wanted to revisit the idea of sharing our spaces, work and otherwise, to hopefully make us all feel a little less alone. Here are some examples of how the team has adjusted, and coped, in the new normal.
This post is a follow on to our previous post on a similar theme, On Making Work Less Remote. It is also related to the podcast “Books, Art, and Zombies: How to Survive in Today's World”, in which Charlie Gleason and Margaret Francis discuss the ways in which they're keeping hope and happiness alive with their families.