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There are a great number of things that I'm bad at. One thing I'm bad at (but that I'm trying to get better at) is being more-accepting of the fact automattic, music, study, work, piano, imposter syndrome, coaching, covid-19, education

(This is yet another post about Automattic. Seee more posts about my experience of working at Automattic.)

Off the back of my recent post about privileges I enjoy as a result of my location and first language, even at my highly-multinational employer, and inspired by my colleague Atanas' automattic, geography, cartography, work, graphs, job, teleworking, maps

I've been thinking recently about three kinds of geographic privilege I enjoy in my work at Automattic. (See more posts about my experience of working at Automattic.)
1. Timezone Privilege
Take a look at the map below. I'm the pink pin here in Oxfordshire. The green pins are my immediate team - automattic, geography, brexit, languages, language, employment, work, job, travel, teleworking, maps, passport, timezones

It just passed two years since I started working at Automattic, and I just made a startling discovery: I've now been with the company for longer than 50% of the staff.

When you hear that from a 2-year employee at a tech company, it's easy to assume that they have a high staff turnover, but

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My employer, Automattic, has a creed. Right now it reads:
I will never stop learning. I won’t just work on things that are assigned to me. I know there’s no such thing as a status quo. I will build our business sustainably through passionate and loyal customers. I will never pass up an opp automattic, recruitment, telecommuting, work, teleworking

Last year, I accepted a job offer with Automattic and I've been writing about it every 128 days. I've talked about my recruitment, induction, and experience of lockdown (which in turn inspired a post about the future of work). I've even helped enthuse other new Automatticians! Since my last post

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Seven years ago, I wrote a six-part blog series (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) about our Ruth, JTA and I's experience of buying our first house. Now, though, we're moving again, and it's brought up all the same kinds of challenges and stresses as last time, plus a whole lot of bonus ones to boot.

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When the COVID-19 lockdown forced many offices to close and their staff to work remotely, some of us saw what was unfolding as an... opportunity in disguise. Instead of the slow-but-steady decentralisation of work that's very slowly become possible (technically, administratively, and politically) automattic, telecommuting, employment, work, job, teleworking, covid-19, futurism

Since I accepted a job offer with Automattic last summer I’ve been writing about my experience on a nice, round 128-day schedule. My first post described my application and recruitment process; my second post covered my induction, my initial two weeks working alongside the Happiness team (tech s

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Since I reported last summer that I’d accepted a job offer with Automattic I've been writing about my experience of joining and working with Automattic on a nice, round 128-day schedule.

My first post covered the first 128 days: starting from the day I decided (after 15 years of w automattic, employment, work, macs, teleworking