State of Remote Work: A #BufferChat Recap

Mar 3, 2018 5 min readBufferchat

This week on #bufferchat our community chatted about the State of Remote Work, discussing what it’s like to be a remote worker in 2018. Read on to discover all of the awesome insights shared during the chat!

Catch our weekly Twitter chat, #bufferchat, at TWO times every Wednesday for valuable industry insights and to meet hundreds of other smart marketers and social media enthusiasts. Same topic, same place, just at different times – feel free to join whichever chat time works best for you!

4 pm AEDT (Sydney time)

9 am PT (San Francisco time)

#BufferChat February 28, 2018: State of Remote Work

This week’s stats:
Bufferchat #1 (4 pm AEDT): 30 participants; reach of 989,830
Bufferchat #2 (9 am PT): 96 participants; reach of 1,238,440

Q1: Where do you primarily work from? Do you have a secondary location?

From the community:

See all the great answers to question 1 here!

Q2: Do you work remotely 100% of the time? If not what percentage of your time is remote?

From the community:

See all the great answers to question 2 here!

Q3: What percentage of your company is remote workers?

From the community:


See all the great answers to question 3 here!

Q4: What is the biggest benefit of working remotely?
From the community:


See all the great answers to question 4 here!

Q5: What is the biggest struggle of working remotely?

From the community:


See all the great answers to question 5 here!

Q6: Do you have tips for disconnecting? How often do you fully disconnect and take a vacation?

From the community:


See all the great answers to question 6 here!


Thank you so much to our awesome community for sharing such great insights in this chat!

Do you have any comments or answers to these questions? Leave your thoughts in the comments! We’d love to hear from you!

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