IT professional to work remotely from Everest

IT professional to work remotely from Everest

An IT worker is pushing the concept of remote working to the extreme by planning to manage her team remotely while climbing to Everest Base Camp in the Himalayas.

Astrid Byro is planning the trip to the Base Camp to raise cash for the National Museum of Computing’s (TNMOC) learning programme. However, she is going to have to find ways of staying in contact with her team back home during her trek and is viewing the challenge as an opportunity to demonstrate how it is increasingly possible to work remotely from anywhere.

In order to achieve this she is having to work with a cutting-edge web interface provider, Atlassian, which is also sponsoring Ms Byro to complete the trek.

She told the Milton Keynes Citizen: "I’m no stranger to remote working, but I began to realise that my glib proposal to work from the Himalayas was a horse of a different feather. Lugging a laptop isn’t feasible and communications there are uncertain at best."

She went on to explain that with a little more research, she found technology that will enable her to stay in contact with her team and work remotely from the Himalayas: “Software from one of my sponsors, Atlassian, is enabling me to implement a web interface to manage my team remotely.”

She explained that discovering the technology has brought major benefits to her team, who really like using the new Atlassian system because of the “transparency it has brought to their work.”

Ms Byro’s fundraising is going very well, having already raised some £20,000 for the museum’s learning project.

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