Grow remote

@GrowRemoteIRL www.growremote.ie
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A Community Project...
...In Remote Working For Community Development
20 volunteers from across Ireland, and now Europe, who want to see remote working drive local
impact. We’re solving for connection to remote workers for companies (pointing to service
providers), lack of a real world community for talent (mapping offline communities), and adapting
to the rapid rate of change for communities (chapter leads).
Now with 43 local drivers of that.

Who We Are
20 People In A WhatsApp Group
Cian Collins
Amber Doyle
.
Rose Barrett
.
Denis Collins
Joe Rytis

Who We Are
Noel Dykes
John Riordan Laura Hanlon
Tracy Keogh
Eoin Kennedy

Who We Are
Patrick
Hladun
Rebecca
Spellman
Niall Doherty
John Brett
Shauna
Moran

Who We Are
Emer
Cooney
Cillian
Murphy
Ken Tobin
Laurel Farrer
Sean Brady

Some Stats...
Scary ones, and the ones that can help us. We need to act.
Workplace Trends
50% of workers set to be remote by 2040Urbanisation
Today, 55% of the world’s population lives in
urban areas, a proportion that is expected to
increase to 68% by 2050
Disconnect (Ire)
77% of employees are in favour of remote
working, 25% say their employer is
embracing it.
Oversupply of remote workers
One major gig platform alone records an
oversupply of 1,576,600 workers.

80+ Coworking spaces in
ireland
In rural areas, these were a response to the
rapid changing of the main street, results of
over-tourism, and urbanisation trends.
Talent will come to and stay in thriving
areas, and a coworking space is a good
home for that.
Initially focused on startups, but needed
the ‘3 legged stool’ to help them succeed.

Coworking In Communities
Where it started: how do we fill seats? Coworking is important because...
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Local working groups
Town teams, govt
organisations, corporates,
startups, SMEs convene here.
Use of Buildings
As stores go digital, coworking
spaces house the new workers.
Events
Events that bring the
community together.
A physical home
For online businesses,
coworking spaces provide a
physical home

Companies
Companies were recording full
employment levels, and looking for new
ways to source talent.
Talent
Workers in cities were facing long
commutes & higher rents. There is a strong
push factor out of cities

Stuff We Tried
Over a year or two, we tried lots of things in lots of areas
Targeting Commuters
If they’re commuting, they don’t have the option to
work remote with their current employers. So we
could either convince their employers, or find
alternative jobs.
Targeting Companies in the Capital
Hard to get to the right person and then required a
very commercial conversation. They’re not locally
focused, they can’t be.
Found The Jobs!
Going European first, a there are 100s of jobs
already there, but rural areas weren’t hearing
about them, they didn’t seem ‘real’.
Surveys/skills mapping
Surveys like this require cross-collaboration
which takes a lot of time.
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STARTUP X 1
2
Talent
Help make remote work ‘real’. Give
remote workers an offline community.
Companies
Help them help each other, and build a
community that they can hire from.
Communities
When jobs are mobile, there’s a fair
playing ground for communities to
compete.

The Benefits For Communities
Why should you encourage increased competition in the jobs market?
FEST
Talent
With lots of jobs available, talent can
move to a local area without risking
it all for one job. This gives you a
bigger pool to pull from (including
spouses).
Skills
Talent will be gaining skills from
multiple companies. The same local
talent pool can get more diverse and
more valuable to you.
Environment
Less travel, less traffic, friendlier for
the environment.
Competition
It levels the playing field.
When your job isn’t location
dependant, quality of life matters
more. Rural areas can compete with
urban areas here.

One Thriving Place

Grow Remote In Ireland
41 chapters
Chapters aim to bridge the gap between remote work and local impact. The chapters range from remote islands to
commuter belts. Each area wants the same thing - to allow those who want to live there, to live there.
Remote Working is about choice.

STARTUP X 1
6
How did we get to Europe?
We started by going to our capital, and convincing them to stop the commute….

STARTUP X 1
7
We Quickly Changed Our Mindset. Global where possible, but always European
When we looked
European, we found
100s of fully
distributed companies
who would hire in
Ireland, in rural areas.
We just needed to
connect the dots.
(We hope local will
follow)

Grow Remote In Europe
2 Chapters
Spain and Portugal were the first European Chapters to join us in our 2018 batch. The fundamental challenges we face are
the same, but there are differences when it comes to broadband, or adoption of local companies to remote working.

Phases of remote working communities
What it’s looking like for our Beta batch in the early days…..
Reskilling
•Reskilling programmes in
areas who haven’t
previously had access to
these jobs.
Skills Mapping
•For areas that have the
population and skilled
workforce, but need to
change the narrative
Live and Work
Campaigns
•For areas that suffered
from over-tourism and
depopulation and want to
attract people back (with
mobile job).
•(Town Tasters, nomadic
working, Christmas
Campaigns)
Meetups
•For areas with large
numbers of remote
workers , meetups are
being built to retain them

STARTUP X 2
0
We need collaboration and we need very strong pull factors to
work with the very strong push factors driving people from
cities.
All three, companies, talent and communities need to work
together.
There is huge potential. We fundamentally believe in this.

THANK
YOU!

Grow remote

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