Teams Across Timezones: How to Be an Effective Remote Manager with Marcus Wermuth, Engineering and Product Manager at Buffer

This New Way

In episode 27, Marcus reminds us that intentionality must come along with remote work.

Marcus Wermuth is the Engineering and Product Manager at Buffer, a social media growth, engagement and management platform. Marcus is an advocate for remote work and is deeply passionate about helping managers build effective, distributed teams.

Marcus talks about why hiring a team that is distributed around the world isn’t a bad idea and how he makes it work. We talk about asynchronous meetings and making sure your meetings are bi-directional and personal.

Tune in to hear why we must remember to include humanness and personality in our work systems and structures because we are working with humans, and not avatars.