Blog posts under the Team category

How a Remote Work Company Can Still Be Successful When Slack Goes Down

As a 100% distributed company with remote work employees across the US (and one in Canada!), WebDevStudios (WDS) relies on Slack as our main internal communication tool. So when Slack goes down, as it did yesterday, our team is directly affected, but the reactions...

How WDS Growth Calls Inspire a Productive and Passionate Remote Work Environment

At the start of 2018, Lead Backend Developer, Ben Lobaugh, announced that he was starting a new daily call that anybody on the WebDevStudios (WDS) team was welcomed to join. It would be a quick 15-minute call to chat about personal growth,...

Five for the Future: April-May Wrap-Up

It’s time for another rundown of the accomplishments that our team at WebDevStudios (WDS) has achieved through our Five for the Future (#5ftf) efforts, whereby we donate 5% of company time to WordPress and the community. We each do this in our...

Another New Face at WDS!

It seems like every week, we have a new team member to announce. This week is no different. Please help us welcome Meagan Hanes, Support Technician, to the WebDevStudios (WDS) family. She joins the powerhouse support team at Maintainn. “I learned about this...

Why Company Retreats Are Important for Remote Companies

It’s no surprise that remote companies are growing in popularity. There are several perks to both the company and employee in working this way: low company overhead, hand-picking your team from anywhere in the world, no commuting, no one microwaving fish in...

9 Critical Concepts for Leading High-Performance Teams

I just returned from WebDevStudios’ (WDS) 2018 WDS Camp, a company-wide, weeklong retreat. The annual event provides face time for a team that is distributed across the entire geographical region that is the US. As I sat on the six-hour flight home,...

New Client Strategist Added to WebDevStudios

With great clients comes great responsibility. And so, we have added a second Client Strategist to our growing sales and marketing team. Everyone, meet Brittney Carter. Brittney joins us from Riverside, California. She runs her own WordPress website at Brittinspires.com where she shares inspirational...

Another New Dev Joins WDS

What a treat to return from WDSCamp and find a new coworker! Please help us welcome our newest WordPress Frontend Developer, Adam Soucie, to WebDevStudios (WDS). Adam joins WDS after having established a career in sports communications, where he ran the team...

WDS Hired a New Team Member

As if WebDevStudios (WDS) wasn’t celebrating enough with it being our 10-year anniversary and all, we have yet another reason to jump for joy. WDS hired a new team member! Everyone, meet our new Backend Developer, Chris Wieber. Chris hails from Milwaukee...

Meet Our New WordPress Backend Developer!

One of the best things about working at WebDevStudios (WDS) is our amazing team of WordPress experts, developers, and enthusiasts. Our WDS family is comprised of talented, passionate, smart (and often snarky) people, and it’s always a pleasure to add one more...