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Firstbase Is Now an Apple Authorized Reseller

Firstbase is now an Apple Authorized Reseller, highlighting its top-tier remote equipment management. Elevate your hybrid work experience with us.

August 9, 2023

Why You Need a Virtual IT Closet

In office settings, supplying IT accessories on demand to workers was easy, but it gets harder with a distributed workforce, especially when employees are global. This is where a cloud-based virtual IT closet comes into play.

July 5, 2023

Firstbase Awarded RemoteTech Breakthrough’s Employee Onboarding Solution of the Year

We're thrilled to announce that Firstbase has received the prestigious 2023 RemoteTech Breakthrough Award for our game-changing Employee Onboarding Solution. Transform your remote onboarding process and boost productivity with Firstbase. Request a demo today.

June 22, 2023

The State of IT Report: How Top-Performing Companies Rethink Efficiency

Learn how modern IT leaders are thinking about the challenges they face in 2023, in this report co-sponsored by Firstbase.

June 13, 2023

Future of Work Roundup - Week of December 12

Welcome to the Future of Work Roundup. Each week, we bring you five top stories—drawing from the latest academic research and industry trends—to give you an easily-digestible snapshot of how work is changing—and why it matters.

December 13, 2022

Future of Work Roundup - Week of December 5

December 5, 2022

Future of Work Roundup - Week of November 28

November 28, 2022

The State of RTO: What Workers Want

Companies’ return to the office or “RTO” has become a hot-button issue that has gripped headlines for weeks. Fortune has called the tension between RTO and WFH (work from home) a “war.” Yet with hybrid work emerging as a dominant work model moving forward, most companies have initiated RTOs.

November 7, 2022

Why Choose a Two-Year Laptop Refresh Cycle?

Employees need to be equipped with the right technology to succeed in an increasingly remote and dynamic work environment. This isn’t something that happens as a one-and-done event during onboarding. Instead, you need to continually ensure that your employees’ technology remains up-to-date so that they remain productive, engaged, and also protected from security and data threats.

June 22, 2022

Announcing Firstbase’s $50M Series B

We are thrilled to announce $50M in Series B funding, led by Kleiner Perkins, and welcome Josh Coyne to our board. Today is an important day for Firstbase.

March 25, 2022

The Bull Case for Remote Work

On March 12th 2020 the world changed. In the 15 months since remote work has accelerated 15 years into the future. Where prior to the pandemic only 3% of the US workforce worked remotely full-time, after the pandemic 10X that number will.

July 19, 2021

Announcing Firstbase's $2M Seed Round and $13M Series A from A16Z and Alpaca Ventures

Today is an important day for Firstbase and all of us personally. We are announcing a $2M Series Seed led by David Goldberg at Alpaca and a $13M Series A led by David Ulevitch at A16Z.

April 29, 2021

20 Lessons 100 Leading Remote Companies Taught us About Building a Great Remote Team

Over the last 3 years, we've spoken to 100+ of the leading remote-first companies on the planet These are the 20 lessons they taught us about how to build a great remote team 1. ✍️ Documentation: documentation is the unspoken superpower of remote teams

February 22, 2021

The 'Remote Work' Dilemma

Every company that operated from an office pre-Covid — who has managed to continue operating effectively while forced to work remotely during a global pandemic — will be forced to become a Remote-First organization.

February 15, 2021

Remote Work isn't About the Future of Work It's about the Future of Living

Remote work isn’t a new way of working Remote work is a new way of living Unshackling people from sitting in a pollution emitting metal box for 2 hours a day commuting to a distraction factory adult kids club where you waste your days not doing anything and padding out an 8 hour day before you go home and have no time left.

December 9, 2020

The Rise of Remote-first

The Rise of Remote-first Office working is a relic. It’s a reminder of a company’s inability to embrace change. It’s also no longer necessary. In fact, office working is a waste from almost every way you look at it.

December 3, 2020

The Fifth Industrial Revolution

A few years ago, Steve Case wrote what may turn out to be the most prescient overview of where the world was headed. The Third wave predicted and projected the end of the analog age. Replacing it would be a digital world. Not only has that happened in incredibly short order, but it’s also going to continue to happen even more quickly over the coming years

December 3, 2020

Going Back to the Office Full-time will Kill your Company

🤸‍♀️ 9 in 10 workers never want to work in an office full-time again 🌍 5 in 10 workers want to work remotely full-time going forward ✈️ 8 in 10 companies plan to hire more remotely going forward 💰 $1 Trillion cut in office spend if WFH 50%/week US alone The office will kill any company that goes back full-time

December 3, 2020

Companies Who Remain Office-First Will Be Replaced By Companies Who Go Remote-First

The Numbers 90% of employees working from home over the lockdown period want to remain where they are. Even more importantly: 50% of employees in the study want to work remotely for most, if not all of the time. Mirroring that, 50% of IBM employees said the same thing a few months earlier. This has been replicated multiple times by several sources. This is future.

December 3, 2020

Giving Your Remote Team a Stipend for Set up at Home is Incredibly Dangerous

Not so fast The danger here is that workers do not buy the right equipment. The outcome is incredibly simple: injuries, lower productivity, and a terrible experience.

December 3, 2020

The Tools and Equipment Remote Workers Need to do Great Work at Home

Table stakes for doing great work are the right tools and equipment. Everybody know this, it's the reason everything is provided for you in an office. Without those things, you won't be as safe, comfortable, or productive as you should be.

December 3, 2020

Designing a Great Place to Work for Everyone

Be the best workplace on the planet That is our most important value; our stake in the ground. Everything else falls beneath that banner.

December 3, 2020

How Remote Work will Save the World

Remote work will deliver the biggest quality of life gains of the 2020s. Millions of people will transition from organizing their lives around work to organizing work around their lives. This is inevitable and will happen rapidly.

December 3, 2020

Every Office-First Company will be Replaced by a Remote-First Company

I thought the rise of remote work would happen on the backs of great talent leveraging their power to demand more flexible opportunities as a condition of employment. My rationale was that companies didn't know if remote work worked.

December 3, 2020

Companies who Provide a Great Remote Work Experience will Beat Every Company who Doesn't

Companies who focussed on experience 10 years ago replaced every company that didn’t. Companies that provide a great remote work experience will beat every company who doesn’t in 10 years. The reason is incredibly simple: experience, culture and human connection.

December 3, 2020

Every Company Needs a Remote Work Strategy to Survive

Remote work is the most important workplace innovation in history. It will deliver the largest quality of life increase across the next decade and help companies become far more effective and efficient.

December 3, 2020

65 Predictions About the Future of Life and Work

The 2020s are the Remote Work decade. Remote work has the potential to be the biggest quality of life upgrade in work history. A few predictions of what is likely to emerge

December 3, 2020

Companies That Go Back to the Office Full-Time Will Be Replaced by Every Company Who Doesn't

Companies who adopted technology 20 years ago replaced every company that didn’t. Companies that adopt remote working will replace every company that doesn’t. The reason is incredibly simple: talent and efficiency.

December 3, 2020

Remote Work Let me See my Kids's First Steps

I'm so passionate about remote work because of everything it has given me. Time, opportunity, happiness and freedom. The chance to let my daughters know their father far better than they otherwise would have. Freedom to drop and pick them up from school, attend events without having to get permission from my boss.

December 3, 2020

Every Company Needs a Disaster Continuity Plan that Includes Remote Work Now

Companies who can't operate remotely are in trouble Covid-19 has highlighted the lack of capacity most companies have for remote work. This will be viewed as an existential threat to businesses and every board will push their companies towards developing a strategy to cope with any future situation immediately.

December 3, 2020

Why You'll Become a Remote Worker in the 2020s

Remote work is the biggest workplace revolution in history, and it's coming for almost every desk job globally in the next decade. Of the 255m desk jobs globally, a majority will be done remotely a majority of the time by 2030. That doesn't mean that 128m people will be operating remotely by the close of the decade but it does mean there will be 128m people working remotely 3 days+ a week by them.

July 12, 2020

Why the 2020s will be the Remote Work Decade

36 Predictions of the Trends That Will Emerge from the Rise of Remote Work Globally Why We Must Demand Remote Work Remote work is the biggest workplace revolution in history and nothing will deliver a higher quality of life increase in the next decade than this.

July 9, 2020

Remote Work is Eating the World

Every day I hear another company is transitioning to offer remote work. From the world’s largest enterprises to the earliest stage startups, companies of every size are awakening to the fact remote working isn’t going away and are embracing it before they are pushed. Make no mistake, this is a revolution being driven by world-class people demanding more trust, control, flexibility and autonomy in their work lives.

July 8, 2020

The Office is Dead – Long Live Remote Working

The office is dead. I realize that may not be immediately apparent but it's indisputable. The 2008 financial collapse killed the vanity office and marked the rise of co-working spaces. The why is as obvious as the when – real escape costs had risen to a point where companies could no longer justify paying them. In order to cope, companies shoehorned more people into less space. In return, the devolution from what the office was originally designed to be was complete. What began as the optimum place to do deep focussed work now survives as open-plan everything where disruption and distraction are impossible to escape.

July 1, 2020

What The Explosive Growth of Remote Works Means for Your Life

Remote work means the unbundling of city life To understand ‘why now?’ it’s not enough to reflect on the historical precedent of what’s occurred previously. You need to inject modern technology and analyze what’s possible now that wasn’t before.

June 8, 2020

The Full-Stack Solution your Team Needs to Go Remote Easily

From the moment I picked up Jason Fried’s book ReWork I was hooked. Much like reading Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper, I felt like I was peering into the future and immediately understood the possibilities of the revolution we are about to experience. I saw not just the potential for my own startup to embrace it as a means to hire world-class people we would otherwise have had no chance of attracting, but more generally as a chance for the future of work to be infinitely better than the soul-destroying, happiness-draining, time-consuming monster that office work has become.

June 1, 2020

Why Remote Work is Rising now and What you Can do to Keep Up

Telecommuting existed 20-30 years ago and never truly broke through. Part of the skepticism against the remote work trend grows from this and persists because of it, giving non-believers are more credible voice than it probably should. Simply put, why will it be different this time? What has happened to make it better suited to now than it was previously?

May 30, 2020

5 Reasons Why Your Company Will Never Let you Work Remotely & 2 Why They Might

The most important thing workers want today is remote working opportunities. Every single one of us wants, and increasingly expects, five things: trust control balance flexibility autonomy

May 11, 2020

7 Things Remote Work is a Reaction Against

The remote work movement is gathering pace. Everywhere you look, companies are considering their strategy while workers increasingly look to inject it as a condition of employment. The 2020s will be remembered as the remote work decade.

May 10, 2020

Remote Work is Unbundling City Life

To understand ‘why now?’ it’s not enough to reflect on the historical precedent of what’s occurred previously. You need to inject modern technology and analyze what’s possible now that wasn’t before.

May 1, 2020

Remote Work is the next Operating System for Capitalism

May 1, 2020

The Cost of The Office vs. Remote

Remote work is everywhere. The smartest people I know all plan to work remotely this decade, while the most interesting startups I have discovered are all offering remote work. At the same time, there is a massive supply and demand problem. Far more people want remote jobs than there are remote jobs available. This had led to a perfect storm, particularly on social media, where a vocal minority evangelizes the remote work benefits while non-remote people question whether the benefits can be as great as is suggested.

April 12, 2020

Companies who adopted technology 20 years ago replaced every company who didn't

Companies who adopted technology 20 years ago replaced every company that didn’t. Companies who adopt remote working will replace every company who doesn’t in 20 years. The reason is incredibly simple. Talent and efficiency.

April 10, 2020

Coronavirus will Make it Hard to Go Back to the Office after Experiencing the Benefits of Remote Work

But it will definitely make workers realize how much their quality of life increases. Forcing travel to an office to work on a machine that can be used anywhere is dumb. That’s almost every office job at this point and it's causing workers to waste their life doing things that make no sense at all.

April 7, 2020

The Remote Work Manifesto – How to Build a Culture & Dominate this Decade

Remote work is the biggest workplace revolution in history. It's the most important strategic decision companies will make this decade as it will allow them to become more efficient. The below are not a set of commandments. It's a starting point that will be improved as remote work grows:

April 4, 2020

3 Steps to Provide a Great Remote Work Experience to Your Team

Companies who adopted technology 10 years ago replaced every company that didn’t. Companies that provide a great remote work experience will beat every company who doesn’t in 10 years. The reason is incredibly simple: experience, culture and human connection.

April 1, 2020

How Offices Became Adults Kids Clubs

Remote work accelerated by 10 years in 10 days. Prior to COVID-19 there were projected to be 33m full-time remote workers in 2030, across the EU and the USA. That’s how many there will be today after COVID-19 is over.

March 22, 2020

Companies that Don't Cut Real Estate are Committing Strategic Suicide

$22,000 / year / person The saving companies make by adopting remote working full-time. $11,000 / year / person The saving companies will make by adopting remote working 2 to 3 days per week.

March 12, 2020

Remote Work is the Next Operating System for Living

Life has changed more in the last 10 weeks than in the last 10 years. Globally, people are experiencing a new way of living. The catalyst is a global pandemic and though some things will return to 'normal' once it has passed other things wont. People don't want to go back to certain things.

March 5, 2020

10 Reasons Why Companies need to Go Remote-First Now

Remote work has accelerated by 10 years Companies everywhere have experienced the benefits of remote work and shouldn't go back to the office full-time. Those who transition to remote-first will dominate the next decade. Those who don't will be replaced by companies who make the move first.

March 3, 2020

Back to the Future of Work: How to Dominate the Remote Work Revolution

I thought the future of work was a zero-sum game. It’s not. Most companies will downsize office footprint by 50% and let everyone work from home 3-4 days a week. This will help them become more capital efficient while expanding the talent pool they can hire from.

March 1, 2020

7 Reasons Why Companies Shouldn't Go Back to the Office After COVID-19

Offices were necessary before: the internet portable electronics They’re now obsolete

February 16, 2020

Returning to the Office Full-time will Destroy Several Massive Companies

The office is dead It used to be a sign that a company had made it. That they could afford an expensive bespoke design which was a destination used to impress prospective clients. The physical space a manifestation of everything the company stood for.

February 14, 2020

The Future of Work Isn't Remote

The future isn’t remote. The present is. It’s here.

February 10, 2020

Successful Companies Will Use Remote Work to Dominate Competitors

Remote-first is the strategy every large enterprise must adopt immediately. During their next board meeting, how does any board of directors not force their companies to consider switching to remote-first after seeing that it works during the ongoing situation?

February 8, 2020

How to Set your Remote Team up To Do Great Work at Home

The remote work genie is out of the bottle; it will be impossible to put it back in. Remote work has accelerated 10 years in 10 days and workers will now expect it.

February 7, 2020

Every Company Needs a Remote Work Strategy to Survive – This is What you Need

February 1, 2020

How the Biggest Companies in the World are Thinking about Remote Work

A work for home capability isn’t a nice to have It could be the difference between life or death Companies everywhere are waking up to this reality. The capacity for flexibility is one we hear from every company, big or small, we speak to. How can we transform and shift to meet the needs and expectations of tomorrow's job seekers? This has a direct impact on talent, innovation, and diversity.

January 20, 2020

Companies who go Remote First Will Beat Competitors Who Move Slowly

There's a first-mover advantage in going remote-first before anyone else. All the smartest people I know personally plan to work remotely this decade All the best companies I know personally plan to hire remotely this decade Remote-first companies will attract the most talented people from office-first companies.

January 10, 2020

Remote Work is about the Future of Living

January 9, 2020

The 3 Tools Every Team Needs to do Great Remote Work at Home

Remote work has accelerated 10 years in 10 days. Companies are discovering they lack the capacity for remote work. Minimum table stakes for great remote work: messaging, video and physical tools.

January 7, 2020

Remote Work has Accelerated 10 years in 10 days

The only things that could pull people back to the office is the ego of bad middle manager scared of losing control Millions of workers are experiencing the life-changing benefits of organizing work around your life rather than the other way around. This flexibility has come with certain caveats. Many of us are having to continue our work while homeschooling our children and even with that the universal benefits of no longer having to waste 600 hours are obvious.

January 5, 2020

The Massive Advantages of Adopting Remote Work Before Your Competitors

Thought remote work would rise from talented individuals demanding it as a condition of employment and companies giving it to them to stop them from leaving for their biggest competitors.

January 5, 2020

The Tools Every Company Needs to Develop a Great Remote Work Strategy

January 4, 2020

Remote Work Will Be an Expectation of Every Office Worker Globally

Companies that embrace this will attract and retain the most talented people in the world. Companies who don't will lose their best people to their biggest competitors. The reason is incredibly simple: flexibility, balance and time

January 2, 2020

Every Office Worker Will Demand the Choice to Work From Home

The ongoing situation has accelerated remote work 10 years in 5 weeks Now that workers have experienced the benefits of remote work it's going to be incredibly difficult to put the genie back in the bottle. They know they can operate more efficiently and effectively from home. Collaboration on Zoom has been great and very similar to in-office collaboration. We are beginning to realize that offices are not necessary to do great work.

January 2, 2020

There will be 255 Million Remote Workers by 2030

There are 255 million desk jobs globally Any of them could be done remotely A majority of them will be by 2030

January 1, 2020