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B-san's Blog

The work and life of a Community Education Manager in Japan

Tag: distributed work

  • All this snow!!

    All this snow!!

    We’ve had at least a meter more snow than usual around here this year! Here are some pictures showing how much snow we’ve had.

  • A year since my first time co-working

    A year since my first time co-working

    I was looking over my blog, seeing what I published this time last year. To my surprise, it was about my first time co-working in a coffee shop: Huh… It’s funny, because when you think of 2020, one of your first thoughts are “I couldn’t do this or that – due to covid.” But we…

  • Coronavirus and Appreciating Small Things in Life

    Coronavirus and Appreciating Small Things in Life

    It was announced that the hundred case of the coronavirus was confirmed in Hokkaido, Japan, this week. We have had three deaths so far, just in this prefecture. Local schools will be shut down to the end of the month now, and the Japanese government is preparing to announce a state of emergency tomorrow. The…

  • My First Time Co-Working

    My First Time Co-Working

    At Automattic, everyone can work from the location of their choice. This, of course, means they can live anywhere in the world. But they can also work from any environment within a geographic location. You can work from home, from a coffee shop, from a co-working space, from a park, from a library, on the…

  • Home Office + Swag

    Home Office + Swag

    Hi all! I have now been working at Automattic for over a week and things are starting to settle in. While core work is essentially the same to what I was doing in the Trial, everything else feels totally different. For example… I’m starting to put faces and names together of my colleagues! You start…