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How has working remotely with OTGS benefited your family? – An interview with Andreas Walter

My name is Andreas Walter and I originally come from Germany. My family left Germany in 2012 and settled in Lima, my wife's hometown. We had a significant amount of savings and huge expectations but finding an adequate job was harder than expected. How did you find the job market in a country like Peru? My first jobs in Peru kept me busy for 50-60 hours a week, with only one day off, no vacations and no paid sick leave...

July 29, 2020

OTGS June News

We are already halfway through the year and it has been a busy six months for the team at OnTheGoSystems. Toolset News In May, we released a number of major (and also some minor) updates for Toolset. Blocks 1.2 is finally out, with new blocks for galleries, sliders and Youtube, and new layouts for Views including Masonry and collage modes. We also concentrated on improving the better overall performance. We released some maintenance updates for these two plugins, and also...

June 30, 2020

Three good reasons to support WordCamp events and local WPMeetups

Attending a WordCamp resulted in an exciting career move for Kruno Golubić, May’s Employee of the month. We will get to know Kruno better in the following interview. Kruno, where do you come from? I come from Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. In fact, I've lived my whole life here. View of Zagreb When I was a kid, there were seven of us living in the same house -my grandparents, my parents, my two siblings, and me. Life is less...

June 8, 2020

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Jamal Boulhous – understanding the needs of our clients from exotic Morocco

Here at OTGS we work closely with colleagues from all over the world. It’s wonderful to get to know about their countries and cultures. Jamal lives and works in exotic Morocco, a North African country bordering the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, distinguished by its Berber, Arabian and European cultural influences. Think of Tangiers, Casablanca, Berber villages in the High Atlas Mountains and camels crossing the Sahara… The view 20 minutes from Ait Ourir Let’s visit Jamal and find...

May 11, 2020

How OTGSians keep learning and contributing to the WP community

Ahmed Mohammed, from Giza Egypt, works with our Compatibility team debugging and fixing issues with themes or plugins. Recently to learn React, he enrolled in a 6-week Bootcamp where there are online lectures and discussion lectures. It's organized by Zac Gordon Ahmed, what motivated you to learn new programming languages? Back in 2015, Matt Mullenweg asked everyone in the WordPress community to learn JavaScript 'deeply' and, since then, JavaScript and React became heavily used in WordPress core, themes, and plugins....

May 6, 2020

OTGS April News

It’s already April and the majority of the world is still in quarantine. Here at OnTheGoSystems, we continue working remotely from 40 different countries. We want to ensure that we provide you with all you need to either create nice and appealing websites

April 30, 2020

Meet our team, Work and Stories

Working from home appeals to me, but can I find a steady online job?

While there are many benefits to working from home online, it is understandable that there are valid concerns. Can I find permanent work online? I have some skills, but are they enough to ensure a permanent position? What is it like to work online? Will my employer notice me and keep me on? This month, Bruce Pearson from Australia, our Employee of the month, will address these concerns by describing his personal experiences of working with OnTheGoSystems. Bruce, you started...

April 22, 2020

Keeping active during COVID-19 times

As a fully-remote company, working from home is not new to us at OnTheGoSystems. What is indeed new for everyone is our after-work life activity. Due to COVID-19 and quarantines, social activity has been reduced worldwide and distancing has been imposed. This can have an impact, people tend to get worried and stressed, and we want to avoid this. Being healthy, physically and mentally, is a must to keep our immune systems strong. Here at OnTheGoSystems, we are keeping ourselves...

April 14, 2020

OTGS March News

March has been a difficult month with the COVID-19 pandemic and at OTGS we have kept busy ensuring our customers have our best support. We continue adding requested features and fixes as well as making performance improvements. Here are some of the projects we have carried out this month. Toolset News During March, we focused on compatibility and integration. We just released a minor update for Views and Blocks, that addresses some glitches with the soon-to-be-released WordPress 5.4. In addition,...

March 30, 2020

The Complete Recipe for Making a Living While Being Stuck at Home

If you’re stuck at home, or worried about commuting and being exposed to the coronavirus, have you considered applying for a job you can do from home? The kind of jobs you can do from homeThe most popular “work from home” jobsHow to acquire the skills to work from home?How and how much will I get paid?Where to look for remote positionsWhat it feels like to work from home The kind of jobs you can do from home Nowadays, you...

March 16, 2020