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2024

COMPANY Company Products Remote Work Insights 2023: Year in review Read how 2023 treated PSPDFKit.

2023

INSIGHTS Company Culture Remote Work Bonding in Budapest: A Celebration of Our Collective Journey A look back at our recent retreat in Hungary and the balance of work and fun with colleagues. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Tips Navigating Remote Onboarding: A Software Developer's Perspective An in-depth look at onboarding as a software developer, including tips and tricks to make it easier. COMPANY Company Products Remote Work Insights 2022: Year in Review 2022 was a year of growth and opportunity. 2023 will be a year of momentum.

2022

INSIGHTS Company Culture Remote Work My Second PSPDFKit Retreat: From a Bootstrapped Startup, to a Company of 100+ A recap of our most recent retreat and a comparison to my first PSPDFKit retreat. COMPANY NEWS Culture Remote Work The Many Pets of PSPDFKit AKA: Pspsps, come here PSPDFKittens COMPANY Company Products Remote Work Insights 2021: Year in Review 2021 was a year of success and change. 2022 promises to be a year of growth and opportunity.

2021

COMPANY NEWS Culture Remote Work The Terminal Setups of PSPDFKit How the engineers building an industry-leading SDK use the command line. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work The Case for Ad Hoc Engineer 1:1s with Newcomers Or, the unspoken challenges of onboarding engineers in 2020 and beyond. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity While We Work: How We Stay Productive Some people at PSPDFKit share their tips for being productive. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work How We Forge Togetherness As a remote-first company, we fully understand that to work well together, we have to create connections and understand each other.

2020

COMPANY Company Products Remote Work Insights 2020: Year in Review 2020 has been a challenging year for everyone. Let’s take a look back at what happened over the past year. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Insights Where We Work A blog post showing a glimpse of where our people work. INSIGHTS Remote Work Productivity Useful Mac Apps for Remote Workers Reduce the friction of working remotely! INSIGHTS Remote Work Productivity Communication Is Key in a Remote World Working remotely does not mean working in isolation! Maintaining effective communication means increased productivity and happier teammates. INSIGHTS Remote Work Productivity Tips 9 Tips to Help You Work Effectively from Home This article describes some strategies first-time remote workers should follow to get the most out of working from home. This is part two of four of our remote work series. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Tips Remote Work: How to Overcome Common Struggles of Working from Home This article describes some struggles first-time remote workers may face and provides some strategies to help overcome them. This is part one of four of our remote work series.

2019

COMPANY Company Products Remote Work Insights 2019: Year in Review With 2020 just around the corner, we wanted to reflect on the past year. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Insights How We Work at PSPDFKit A post about how we work at PSPDFKit. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Insights Remote Work: What I've Learned from a Decade as a Remote Software Engineer Sharing a few tips and things I've learned from my 10 years working as a remote software engineer. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work How PSPDFKit Succeeds at Being a Remote Company How a culture of trust, flexibility, discipline, and camaraderie helps us succeed. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Eight Hours: Sleep Can't concentrate during the day? Sleep may be the key to ensuring you do. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Eight Hours: Recreation Focus on making the most of life outside your work in an effort to improve your working life. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Eight Hours: Work Do we spend our working hours efficiently, or can we optimize the way we work? INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity A Modern Approach to Work: Pursuing Mindfulness, Purpose, and Efficiency Your work life extends beyond the eight hours a day you spend working. This series explores the division of time over 24 hours and how the way we spend that time can affect our workday and vice versa.

2018

COMPANY Company Products Remote Work Insights 2018: Year in Review With 2019 just around the corner, we wanted to reflect on the past year. INSIGHTS Remote Work Productivity Music for Concentration We cover how music can help you get in that all-important and elusive state of flow. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Effective Remote Communication Communication is hard — especially for remote companies. Here's how we organize communication at PSPDFKit. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Tips How to Use Slack and Not Go Bananas Slack is both amazing and awful. At a time when many companies quit Slack, we refined our processes to make it work well for us.

2017

INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work 4 steps to a successful company retreat INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Insights What Cultural Diversity Means to Us Our execution of cultural diversity INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Tips Making the Most of Remote Work At PSPDFKit, we strive to hire the best people for the job, regardless of where they are in the world. Here, I want to share how I’ve been making the most of remote work.

2016

INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Tips Hiring a distributed team Who you hire can have a dramatic effect on your team’s culture, company’s productivity and, overall, is the most influential factor in determining the success or failure of a company. Over the past six years at PSPDFKit, we’ve slowly learned what’s important, what works, and what doesn’t work, at least for us. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work The Importance of Retreats for a Remote Company