"The office is like a fetish!", says remote working specialist Raul Anton.
Raul has been working in a remote environment for more than 10 years. He has a PhD in communications in distributed teams. As well as leading teams he is a data analytics specialist too, using statistics to help manage processes like hiring in remote environments.
He spent his first 25 years in a traditional office and in factories but discovered the benefits of remote working long before COVID forced it upon many companies.
As he says in the podcast, many firms saw remote working as being about just replacing the office with Slack or Zoom. But Raul says, remote working really to comes into its own when you "rethink the workplace". He challenges traditional ideas of work at every level from team motivation to management to show it can work in distributed environments.
COVID has made Raul an in-demand speaker in both the Spanish and English-speaking worlds.
For Raul public speaking is much more than just about talking. To him, public speaking is an opportunity for discussion. When he goes on stage he likes it when people question and test his ideas as it helps him learn more from them.
Raul doesn't just talk about the topic but lives it every day, working in one of the world's most respected remote companies.
