Keynote

Operational Psychology: How Github’s 800 Employees Are Reprogrammed For Remote Work

Details

Lara explains how GitHub operates their offices and that anyone can work remotely whenever they wish. “What are the challenges of working remote and how do you address them?” By looking at their cool offices, it’s easy to see why many choose to be colocated. Watch Lara’s presentation on how GitHub empowers remote workers.

Lara Owen on stage as a keynote speaker @ RunningRemote 2018, World’s Largest Remote Work Conference, Bali.

Head of Workplace at Github, Lara Owen is responsible for ensuring their remote team scattered across the globe remain cohesive and productive from wherever they work.

GitHub is a development platform inspired by the way you work. From open source to business, you can host and review code, manage projects, and build software alongside millions of other developers.

GitHub has 751 employees worldwide and 78+ million projects hosted.

Speaker

Vice President, Workplace Experience

About

For almost a decade Lara Owen has been an advocate for flexible work solutions, and has a proven track record of designing operations and spaces that foster both inclusivity and autonomy for a distributed workforce. At GitHub, Lara enhanced their work from home reimbursement program to provide both a competitive amenity and recruiting tool, built a high-functioning Workplace Experience team from scratch, developed a global remote-first real estate strategy, oversaw the design and build of several award-winning offices, and helped the Physical Security team define their duty of care for home office workers.

Lara has also spoken at conferences and written articles about her failures and successes creating a hybrid culture, and loves to nerd out with anyone willing to discuss office design and remote work.

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