Great list. One thing I want to add/emphasize is to consider the remote worker's motivations.
I'm personally not driven by money (it's just a means to an end). So a shortcut to getting bites on a job posting is to understand that there are people working in your field who may very much like to work with you. But they are deterred by past experiences in the office that drove them to work remotely in the first place.
Here are a few things to consider with freelancers:
* They are often most productive outside normal work hours
* Roughly half their time is spent doing research and keeping up with the latest trends
* They probably left the workplace to bootstrap their own startup someday
* Their productivity usually goes down if they are on call or interrupted often
* Beware loose specs and feature creep or you might burn them out and lose them
* Their productivity is limited more by time and money than challenge
* Sometimes they solve problems completely differently than you imagined and that’s ok
* Their short game might stink in some areas so balance them with administrators that take care of formalities
* Self-actualization can be more important for them than recognition
* Perks and benefits probably aren’t in their vocabularies unless they have families to support
By them I mean me, so YMMV..
I'm personally not driven by money (it's just a means to an end). So a shortcut to getting bites on a job posting is to understand that there are people working in your field who may very much like to work with you. But they are deterred by past experiences in the office that drove them to work remotely in the first place.
Here are a few things to consider with freelancers:
* They are often most productive outside normal work hours
* Roughly half their time is spent doing research and keeping up with the latest trends
* They probably left the workplace to bootstrap their own startup someday
* Their productivity usually goes down if they are on call or interrupted often
* Beware loose specs and feature creep or you might burn them out and lose them
* Their productivity is limited more by time and money than challenge
* Sometimes they solve problems completely differently than you imagined and that’s ok
* Their short game might stink in some areas so balance them with administrators that take care of formalities
* Self-actualization can be more important for them than recognition
* Perks and benefits probably aren’t in their vocabularies unless they have families to support
By them I mean me, so YMMV..