The transition to remote work, increasingly adopted by tech companies like GitHub even before the COVID-19 pandemic, involves several key practices to ensure team productivity and wellbeing. GitHub's CTO, Jason Warner, and Laura Heisman emphasize the importance of trust, clear communication, appropriate tool usage, and accommodating global teams with time zone considerations. Trust is cultivated through regular, empathetic communication and transparency about personal life challenges, which enhances team cohesion. Effective communication channels are essential to avoid misunderstandings and micromanagement, while tools like institutional memory, video, email, and chat support efficient operations. Global teams benefit from overlapping work hours or hand-off approaches to maintain workflow continuity. Leaders are encouraged to model balanced work habits, prioritizing mental health and personal time, demonstrating to their teams the value of life outside of work. These practices aim to help various professionals, from executives to hobbyists, navigate remote work effectively.