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Building Virtual Connections in the Remote Workplace

You don’t need to read countless blogs and articles about working remotely to know how important it is to stay connected. Without face-to-face contact and casual small talk by the water cooler, it can be all too easy to start feeling disconnected. OnTheGoSystems has been a fully remote company since day one, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t had to work hard to build and maintain relationships. While we can’t exactly stop by each other's desks for a chat, we’ve...

March 9, 2022

Kathy Banach

OTGS February News

2022 is already in full swing and February saw us hard at work. We improved pricing for automatic translation in WPML and published a minor bug fixing release. We also continued expanding our work with partners, affiliates, and translation services. WPML News This month, we updated our automatic translation pricing. In the past, there were payment tiers you paid for as you crossed a certain amount of words. Now, you pay only for the exact amount of words you used...

March 4, 2022

Beata Silwanowicz on Reaching Summits and Why Remote Work Is the Best Choice for Travel Lovers

Star of the Month Beata Silwanowicz tells us about her love for travel and shares her top tips for getting the work-life balance right when working remotely. Beata, tell us about yourself I come from a small city in the southern part of Poland. Mountains and forests have always been a big part of my life. I always enjoyed hiking with my parents and later on, I joined the local scouting group where I met wonderful friends. We spend many...

February 10, 2022

Kathy Banach

OTGS January News

In January, we released updates for WPML and Toolset to ensure compatibility with just-released WordPress 5.9 and its brand new Full Site Editing feature. We also opened up WPML integration to all translation services, translators, and agencies. WPML News A major WordPress 5.9 release happened on January 25th. It brings the first iteration of the big new feature called Full Site Editing. As its name suggests, it allows you to edit your whole site from the header to the footer,...

February 3, 2022

David Cauchi on Bug Busting and Life as a Remote QA Engineer

Star of the Month David Cauchi tells us about his responsibilities as a QA Engineer, learning from his son, and his plans for the future. David, tell us about yourself Hello, I am David and I'm from Malta. I have always had a passion for technology. The more bleeding edge it is, the better. At home, I like to tend to our terrace "garden". It's currently barren due to the colder weather. Nowadays, the lion's share of free time is...

January 27, 2022

Kathy Banach

OTGS December News

As December brought holiday spirit around the globe we turned to upcoming releases. January will bring a major WordPress 5.9 release so we're making sure our plugins work perfectly with it and its new features. We also continued working with our partners across the board. WPML News We are still rolling out WPML 4.5 version to our clients. After the holidays, we'll be expanding it to 10% of the sites running WPML. At the start...

December 23, 2021

George Botsev on Why Remote Work is the Superior Way of Working

Our Star of the Month, George Botsev, talks about debugging user issues and working remotely from a village. Tell us a bit about yourself Here is me and my family. My wife and our two dogs. That day we did a walk around the fields near our house. George and his wife Detelina walking their dogs What were you doing before joining OTGS? System administration and support of business processes for a payment company. I was...

December 13, 2021

Dario Jazbec Hrvatin

OTGS November News

In November, we kept rolling out our milestone WPML 4.5 release to more websites and had a super busy month in our Go-Global compatibility program. We also opened our Translation Hub to all small agencies and translators so they can set up their own translation service for clients. What’s New in WPML? We are still doing a phased roll-out of WPML 4.5 to our clients. Currently, we rolled it out to only 1% of the sites running WPML (which is...

December 2, 2021

Community and Events, Work and Stories

Meeting Your Remote Team In Person During Covid Times

Covid has changed our lives in lots of ways, but it hasn’t changed our wish to get together once in a while as a company. Here's the story of how we organized a nice in-person meeting in Madrid at the end of October. As a fully remote company, one of the things OnTheGoSystems employees really look forward to is meeting in person at our company-wide events. Thanks to Covid, it was quite some time since we were able to have...

November 29, 2021

Dario Jazbec Hrvatin