Soft Skills of Remote Work

Core Argument

Where do you learn how to screen record? Get good audio for meetings? These were not part of your job description, but they are no longer optional.

After a certain level of skill, everyone is great technically. So what separates people? Their soft skills. Here are the soft skills for remote work.

Look no further than the “Cat Lawyer” (the viral video of a lawyer stuck with a cat filter on Zoom) to see how important these skills are.

Why It Matters

Written in early 2021, at the height of the remote work shift, the founder identified that remote-work competency was becoming a baseline professional skill — not a perk. The technical skills of remote work (screen recording, audio quality, async communication, screen sharing) are “soft” in the sense that nobody formally teaches them, but they are hard requirements for professional effectiveness.

This connects to the founder’s consulting philosophy: in a remote-first world, the ability to communicate data insights asynchronously — through recorded walkthroughs, well-structured documentation, and clear async updates — is as important as the analysis itself.