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Articles
Articles on how life and work are changing. Topics include: digital nomads, remote work, the future of work and much more.
Monday, Sep 14, 2020
The problem isn’t that life is unfair – it’s your broken idea of fairness
The truth is, life is just playing by different rules. The real rules are there. They actually make sense. But they’re a bit more complicated, and a lot less comfortable, which is why most people never manage to learn them. Let’s try.
Friday, Sep 11, 2020
NODESK: Issue #129
This week’s NODESK newsletter features 32 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.
College Is Everywhere Now
But some students are pursuing a third option: Renting giant houses with friends — sometimes in far-flung locales — and doing school remotely, together. Call it the rise of the college “collab house.”
Thursday, Sep 10, 2020
Pinterest cancels huge SF office lease in unbuilt project, citing work-from-home shift
The company will instead continue leasing four existing San Francisco offices, including 651 Brannan St., and pay a one-time fee of $89.5 million to cancel the Bluxome lease. The cancellation is the strongest sign yet of how the coronavirus is reducing the tech sector’s once-voracious appetite for office space.
Going all-in on remote work: The technical and cultural changes
For every business with leaders whose heads are stuck in the if-I-can’t-see-you-you-ain’t-working past, there will be forward-looking competitors who are changing now—and who will be willing to snap up your employees when backward policies drive them to quit. They’ll also be saving money and enjoying greater access to exceptional talent, as well.
Wednesday, Sep 9, 2020
Remote Work Is Killing the Hidden Trillion-Dollar Office Economy
From airlines to Starbucks, a massive part of our economy hinges on white-collar workers returning to the office.
Post-pandemic, Japan firms see office as space to foster innovation
They said that offices have to be more than merely a workplace for employees to just show up, adding that they should offer environments to enhance productivity and foster more business encounters and communication with colleagues and even those from other companies.
Tuesday, Sep 8, 2020
The exact time commitment it takes to run a paid newsletter
like I have a pretty good handle on my workflow and can provide some insight into what it takes to operate a podcast and newsletter operation that’s monetized through paid subscriptions. Here’s a look at what that entails.
Struggling Tourist Destinations Pitch Themselves to New Digital Nomads as Remote Work Locales
The pandemic may accelerate the existing trend of digital nomads in an unexpected way — and some destinations are taking notice at a time when leisure travel is decimated.
Monday, Sep 7, 2020
Why a Slack Backlash Is Inevitable
A reckoning for workplace chat apps like Slack and Microsoft Teams is coming; just ask the people who pay for them. As companies deploy these systems en masse — and rely on them to work from home — executives are starting to confront a set of issues that early adopters know well. Workplace chat can amplify corporate infighting, help divide companies like social media divides countries, and facilitate employee organizing.
Tourism Industry Faces $1 Trillion Loss, 100 Million Jobs At Risk From Covid-19, UN Reports
A new policy brief from the United Nations outlining Covid-19’s impact on the tourism industry projects the pandemic will cost the tourism industry approximately $1 trillion in losses and threaten more than 100 million jobs worldwide, underlining how the ongoing global crisis has devastated one of the world’s largest industries.
Friday, Sep 4, 2020
NODESK: Issue #128
This week’s NODESK newsletter features 31 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
A new study of pandemic-induced remote workers and their employers suggests that at least 16 percent will remain at-home workers long after the COVID-19 crisis has receded.
Germany is beginning a universal-basic-income trial with people getting $1,400 a month for 3 years
As part of the study, 120 people will receive €1,200, or about $1,430, each month for three years — an amount just above Germany’s poverty line — and researchers will compare their experiences with another group of 1,380 people who will not receive the payments.
Thursday, Sep 3, 2020
How to End America's Loneliness Epidemic
Making people more economically secure is the first step to ending the “intimacy apocalypse.”
How to best support remote employees
You want to help as a manager — but how? Here are 8 ways to help ease stress, improve morale, and make working remotely easier for your team.
Wednesday, Sep 2, 2020
Talent Today
In our survey, 42% of companies stated they will remain 100% remote through at least the rest of 2020, while 35% said they will do so only until it’s safe to return to work. About a quarter of those surveyed had not yet decided.
Don't ask to ask, just ask
The solution is not to ask to ask, but just to ask.
Tuesday, Sep 1, 2020
Being OK With Not Being Extraordinary
The internet always highlights the first place winners, the billionaires, the award-winning artists, the best-selling authors, the largest philanthropists, the extraordinary. Their stories are ones of success, of inspiration. They show us what is possible, and push us to achieve more. But I don’t feel inspired when I see extraordinary.