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EFF

Inside the Invasive, Secretive "Bossware" Tracking Workers

The services often sound relatively innocuous. Some vendors bill their tools as “automatic time tracking” or …

PwC

When everyone can work from home, what's the office for?

Office workers say they’d like to have the option to work from home more frequently, even after COVID-19 is no longer a …

NPR

Is Remote Work Here To Stay?

In a previous newsletter, we gave a bearish case for the future of remote work. We spoke with the Stanford psychologist …

Harvard Business Review

The More Senior Your Job Title, the More You Need to Keep a Journal

The French philosopher Blaise Pascal pointed out that “All of humanity’s problems come from man’s inability …

Farnam Street

Job Interviews Don't Work

Better hiring leads to better work environments, less turnover, and more innovation and productivity. When you understand the …

BuyCoins

Remote Work — How To Do It Well

I’ve been working with people all over the world, almost entirely remotely (from Lagos, Nigeria), as a software …

BBC

Coronavirus: Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan

Under the plan employees will “begin to primarily work on a remote basis to achieve a working style that allows them to …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #120

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 23 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Reddit

DNs with 2+ years of experience, what was your biggest mistake and how could someone else prevent it?

I’ll go first.

My mistake: I arrived overseas planning to use ATMs to withdraw cash for living expenses. I’ve …

Superorganizers

Surgical Reading: How to Read 12 Books at Once

It’s a process I’ve developed called surgical reading and it means that when I’m reading a non-fiction …

Twist

Remote-ish: The Remote-First Solution for Hybrid Companies

Best practices for hybrid teams collaborating across headquarters and home offices.

CNN

Tattoos, karaoke and a touch of film noir: What it was like to work with Anthony Bourdain in Thailand

When crew from CNN’s “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” contacted me in February 2014 to ask for assistance …

The New York Times

Hotels vs. Airbnb: Has Covid-19 Disrupted the Disrupter?

For years, home sharing has put pressure on hotel rates and occupancy levels. Social distancing, hygiene and refund policies …

Reddit

What do people learn too late?

What do people learn too late?

The Startup

How to Stay Connected While Working From Home

One of the most common reasons people are hesitant about working from home is feeling disconnected from coworkers, bosses, …

Elemental

Why You Can't Stop Looking at Your Face on Zoom

Try as you might to stare into your laptop camera, it’s difficult to not look at the video of your face in the corner …

Julia Evans

Tell candidates what to expect from your job interviews

Different tech companies run their interviews in very different ways, and I think it’s silly to expect candidates to …

Reuters

Will office buildings ever be the same? Empire State offers clues

A week into New York’s second phase of post-lockdown re-opening, dozens of the companies with office space in one of …

Axios

Almost half of the U.S. population does not have a job

The percentage of Americans who are employed sits at just over 50%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ …

Bloomberg

EU Moves Toward Urging Travel Ban on U.S. and Entry to China

The European Union moved closer to recommending that travelers from the U.S. shouldn’t be allowed to enter the bloc …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #119

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 28 new remote jobs, a feature on Close and the week’s top remote work …

BBC

What the Dutch can teach the world about remote work

The Netherlands may have figured out something about working from home (pandemic or no) that the rest of the world has yet to …

The New Yorker

How the Coronavirus Will Reshape Architecture

What kinds of space are we willing to live and work in now?

The Conversation

Remote work: Employers are taking over our living spaces and passing on costs

Employers argue they make considerable savings on real estate when workers shift from office to home work. However, these …

Axios

Airbnb CEO: Travel may never be the same

Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky told Axios in an interview that global travel may never fully recover, and that he …

The Bali Sun

Bali Tourism Will Target Digital Nomads And Those Who Work Online

The Bali provincial government will focus on attracting digital nomads and those who work online to choose the island as …

Snir David

Written communication is remote work super power

Asynchronous written communication is the tool best suited for remote work. We are so used to talking to each other in the …

The Wall Street Journal

For Newly Remote Workers, Small Town U.S.A. Will Lose Its Allure Soon Enough

Lower taxes? Cheaper housing? Shorter commute? For some knowledge workers fleeing the big city amid the pandemic, the perks …

Laura Deming

How not to be sad

I’ve tried to write (what feels like) 15,000 versions of this essay. All of them ultimately cratered by the fact that …