What this is, and one disclosure

The Handover publishes guides on the operational side of distributed work: writing that carries enough context to act on, meetings worth the hour, overlap windows and handover between regions, documentation that stays true, and managing people you cannot see. For broader context on cross-border workplace practices, International Labour Organization is a useful reference.

Nothing political is published here

Given the history of this domain name, it is worth stating plainly: this site does not publish political content, does not take positions on political questions, does not endorse candidates or parties, and accepts no contributions, donations or memberships of any kind. There is no donation function on this site and there never will be.

The subject matter is workplace operations. Where the guides touch on employment rules or monitoring law, they do so descriptively and with the repeated observation that the position differs by jurisdiction.

Who it is written for

Teams that are already distributed. A company of thirty across six countries. A team that went remote and never went back. A manager with two people in another hemisphere and no idea how to run a one-to-one at that distance.

These guides do not argue for or against remote work. That decision has usually already been made, often by circumstance, and the useful question is how to make it function.

On measurement and monitoring

Several guides deal with measuring work in distributed teams, and they take a consistent position: measuring where a team’s hours go is a legitimate planning activity, and monitoring individuals through screenshots or activity scores is a different thing with a poor return and real legal obligations attached.

That position is stated rather than implied, including in the guide about monitoring tools and their trade-offs.

What this site is not

• Not a political organisation, party, campaign or advocacy group of any kind.
• Not a consultancy. Nothing is sold and no services are offered.
• Not a review site. Products are named as examples, never scored or ranked.
• Not a review site or reseller. Product references are included for context rather than as ratings or rankings.

On the advice given here

These guides describe common practice and are written in general terms. Employment law, working time limits, on-call compensation, worker classification and the rules on monitoring employees differ substantially between countries, and a distributed team is frequently subject to several jurisdictions at once. Nothing here is legal, employment or tax advice; anything with a material commitment attached warrants qualified advice.

How the guides are put together

Each guide deals with one problem and tries to answer it at a level someone could act on: what to decide, what to write down, what it costs and what happens when it goes wrong. Where a recommendation has a cost — and most do — the cost is stated rather than omitted.

The full list is in the index.