Apr 29, 2019
Today's guest joining us on the Join Up Dots podcast is the co-founder and CMO of TimeDoctor.com and Staff.com.These are tools that help manage remote employees productivity. Liam is also the co-organizer of RunningRemote.com which is the largest conference on remote work that’s held in Bali each year in June. Running Remote has had speakers such as Joel Gascoigne from Buffer, Dmitriy Zaporozhets founder of Gitlab and Amir Salihefendic founder of Doist.Many more influential speakers and attendees too. Liam has been working in the remote work space for over 8 years with Time Doctor and Staff.com and ran a previous company which connected university students with remote tutors. His experience in remote work spans over 15 years and over 1 million remote workers have personally used one of his products over that tenure.How The Dots Joined Up For The Time DoctorLiam is an avid proponent of remote work and has been published in Forbes, Inc, Mashable, TechCrunch, Fast Company.As well as Wired, The Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, The Huffington Post, Venturebeat.Many other publications specifically targeting the expansion of remote work. The mission statement that feeds all the products and services that the time doctor is involved with stem from empowering workers to work wherever they want, whenever they want. Liam has an undergraduate and graduate degree in Sociology from McGill University. He lives in Canada but travels 3-6 months out of the year due to his ability to work wherever and whenever he likes. He chooses a new place to travel a few times a year but usually spends time in Austin, Las Vegas and Ubud each year and loves to encourage others to work remotely on his travels.So was he always focused on productivity and excellence or a lazy whatsit like so many people?And does he find it harder to want to work when he can go where he wants in the world?Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Mr. Liam MartinShow HighlightsDuring the show we tackled such weighty subjects such as:How 43% of the US population have worked remotely last year in 2019, a figure that is expected to continue to riseWhy the average time of doing work in the US is only 2 hours 36 minutes and the rest is just wasted unproductive hours.Liam shares how he sold his business and then discovered boredom that changed his life.And lastly..........Liam shares the difference between a blue ocean and a red ocean, and reveals why these are colours to take very seriously.