What The World’s Most Influential CMOs taught me about remote work

Every year, my experience of remote work changes dramatically from winter to spring. In the fall and winter, I lead a relatively independent existence as a freelance tech writer and researcher. That pace changes when it comes time to rejoin the team at Sprinklr, where for the past four years I’ve been the data journalist on their annual partnership to develop the Forbes World’s Most Influential CMOs list, which came out last week.

The experience of working on this project always leads me to reflect on the differences between solo and collaborative remote work, but never more so than this year. That’s because I’ve been working on a book about remote work even while collaborating with the Sprinklr team…and also, because so many of the extraordinary stories in this year’s report speak specifically to the way companies have adapted to remote work in the face of Covid-19. For example: