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A Crash Course in Remote Management

Curious about managing teams while working remotely? Watch this free webinar for best practices.

Customer Loyalty Blog

Working Remotely: Tips from 100+ Remote Workers & Leaders

While we aren’t qualified to speak on the human tragedy playing out, we are in a position to offer a little guidance to …

MyCrypto

A Guide to Working From Home

For those of you finding yourself as a work-from-home employee or employer for the first time, MyCrypto wants to share some …

CBC

People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report

The report shows nearly three-quarters of respondents who were working when the pilot project began kept at it despite …

DEV

Being the first to start remote working

It is 2020. I am a web developer. Fully online focussed. There are few things that stand in the way of working remotely.

But …

Andreas Klinger

Close your office. Now. How operate your startup under lock-down.

In this blog post I want to share my minimum recommendations I think you need in order to continue functioning as a startup, …

Hrvoje Šimić

Do whatever you can't stop thinking about

The basic idea of personal energy management is that you should focus on increasing your personal energy and lifting up your …

Forge

Why Walking Meetings Actually Work

J. K. Rowling said, “There’s nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.” Charles Dickens worked in …

NoDesk

Weekly Remote Jobs

This week’s NoDesk remote jobs newsletter features 29 new remote jobs.

AFAR

How Cancel for Any Reason Travel Insurance Can (and Can't) Help You

In times of crisis, this travel insurance upgrade option may be your only saving grace—you just need to know the rules of …

n+1

Tips for the Depressed

The stupidest, most exasperating piece of advice commonly offered to suffering people is also the truest and most comforting. …

Know Your Team

A Guide to Managing Remote Teams

If you’re a first-time manager of a remote team, or a manager who’s transitioning to work from home, this free …

Abe Winter

Quarantine will normalize WFH & recession will denormalize full-time jobs

Yes this all will normalize WFH, but it will have a downstream effect that’s more important – it will denormalize …

Benedikt Lehnert

OMG I'm working remotely, now what?!

Best practices and tips to help you stay sane, focused and boost your productivity while working from home, a coffee shop or …

Hacker News

What are your war stories for converting teams to remote?

Stories for starting remote teams also welcome!

Collaborative Fund

100 Little Ideas

Alist of ideas, in no particular order and from different fields, that help explain how the world works.

Business Insider

Airlines are burning thousands of gallons of fuel flying empty 'ghost' planes so they can keep their flight slots during the coronavirus outbreak

Airlines have wasted thousands of gallons of fuel running empty “ghost” flights during the coronavirus outbreak …

NoDesk

Weekly Remote Jobs

This week’s NoDesk remote jobs newsletter features 28 new remote jobs and a company feature on Elevate Labs.

The Conversation

Customers hate tipping before they're served – and asking makes them less likely to return

Imagine you’re in line at a coffee shop. You order your usual cappuccino and swipe your credit card to pay. Then the …

FlyerTalk

These New Economy Seat Concepts Are Getting Interesting

Flying coach on long-haul flights is miserable. Being stuck in a cramped seat with no ability to stretch out makes it near …

Reddit

Has anyone's physical health gotten better as a result of a DN lifestyle?

I am going DN in about 4 months and I am really excited to have a more flexible schedule to do meal prepping for my husband …

The Lead Developer

Remote-first teams work better

This talk will uncover how to improve your team’s productivity by learning from remote team best practices. By …

Bright & Early

Josh Pigford: Remote Work at Baremetrics

This episode is part of a series on Remote Work. I’m talking to leaders of remote companies about the pros and cons of …

BBC

The boss who put everyone on 70K

In 2015, the boss of a card payments company in Seattle introduced a $70,000 minimum salary for all of his 120 staff - and …

The Guardian

Luxembourg is first country to make all public transport free

Luxembourg is to become the first country to offer a free public transport system, as the government tries to reduce …

Paul

Travelling with 24" monitors

During 2019 I was living in Paris and really wondering what I was doing there as my job doesn’t require me to be …

The New York Times

How to Disinfect Your Space on an Airplane

Here are some tips for cleaning your area of a plane and keeping healthy on a flight.

Quartz

Singapore Airlines is using aeroponics to upgrade in-flight meals

You may have heard of aeroponics as the method used by NASA to grow vegetables in outer space. Instead of sprouting into the …

CityLab

The Great Tulsa Remote Worker Experiment

The first class of hand-picked remote workers moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in exchange for $10,000 and a built-in community. The …