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Fortune

Jerome Powell says the AI hiring apocalypse is real: ‘Job creation is pretty close to zero’

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell drew a stark picture of a labor market that looks fine on the surface—4.3% unemployment, …

Inc.

Remote Work Boosts Employment for People With Disabilities, a New Study Shows

Remote work remains highly popular and provides particular benefits for employees who face challenges in conventional …

Yahoo News

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With

You know it’s going to be good when an AI executive goes off on a tangent about “hey, what’s a job anyway!” while addressing …

City Journal

The New Map of the American Worker

Pandemic lockdowns and remote work have ignited the economies of small metro regions and rural areas, posing a challenge to …

MIT News

This is your brain without sleep

New research shows attention lapses due to sleep deprivation coincide with a flushing of fluid from the brain — a process …

Scientific Data

A large-scale dataset for analysing remote working in urban and rural areas across Europe

Overall, the rapid evolution of remote work, amplified by COVID 19 pandemic, has underscored its transformative potential in …

Tawanda Munongo

AI is Making Us Work More

How the AI boom revived a 996 work culture - and what it says about us and the future of work.

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #401

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 36 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Reuters

Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts, sources say

Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning on Tuesday, as the company pares expenses and …

The Guardian

Does your boss have the right to time your bathroom breaks when you work from home?

For remote work arrangements to be successful, managers and employees need to meet somewhere in the middle.

The Wall Street Journal

More Big Companies Bet They Can Still Grow Without Hiring

It is the corporate gamble of the moment: Can you run a company, increasing sales and juicing profits, without adding people? …

HR Drive

Remote work drives ‘remarkable’ employment surge for workers with disabilities

Remote and flexible work have driven a “remarkable” surge in workforce participation among individuals with disabilities, …

Fast Company

Remote work is shaped by geopolitics, not technology

Increasingly, geopolitics, rather than technology, is shaping who works, the location of work, and the type of work we get to …

The Conversation

Remote work reduced gender discrimination — returning to the office may change that

The results were striking. Women were significantly more likely to experience everyday gender discrimination when working …

Reddit

The beach is an objectively bad place to work

Almost every article on working as a digital nomad uses the cliche laptop on the beach shot as its main image. I suppose it’s …

BBC

The last European train that travels by sea

Italy’s sleeper from Milan to Sicily ends with a rare rail-ferry crossing that’s threatened by a new mega bridge. …

Reuters

Australian banker wins right to work from home every day

An Australian retail bank employee has been granted the right to work from home all the time by the country’s labour …

David Dodda

How I Almost Got Hacked By A 'Job Interview'

I was 30 seconds away from running malware on my machine.

The attack vector? A fake coding interview from a …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #401

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 36 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Computerworld

How to make workers happier with less pay

This research suggests that, in theory, the price of four office worker salaries buys five remote workers. (In practice, …

New York Post

Manager’s email reveals ‘insane’ 5 minute rule, bathroom policy for remote workers

“We have the 5 minute rule, I just wanted to check in to make sure everything is okay and to remind you of our policy,” the …

EurekAlert!

Researchers develop new indicators to detect loneliness risk in remote work

By analyzing workplace chat data, the study examines employees’ online activity and social connectedness, helping …

Reddit

The country that surprised you the most? Good or bad

What was the country you nomaded in that surprised you the most?

It could be that you expected the locals to be unfriendly …

Institute for Family Studies

The Flexibility Trap: Remote Work’s Hidden Toll on Young Adults

As we embrace the convenience of remote work, we must also count its cost—not just in economic terms, but in human terms. The …

ARTnews

Three Years After Trial Launch, Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent

Several years after launching a trial, Ireland is set to make its basic income for artists program permanent starting in …

CNBC

76% of American workers say they’d look for a new job if forced to work fully in person, survey finds

A growing number of workers are primed to leave their jobs if their companies require them to return to office, a new report …

CNBC

Uber will offer gig work like AI data labeling to drivers while not on the road

Uber plans to offer drivers and couriers in the U.S. ways to make money through the company’s app when they’re not ferrying …

Yahoo Life

World’s top 10 countries for digital nomads revealed - and seven are in Europe

Europe is leading the way for remote workers, as the digital nomad lifestyle continues to gain traction.

TechRepublic

Google Cracks Down on Remote Work, Signaling the End of Big Tech’s Flex Experiment

Google adds more restrictions to its popular ‘Work-From-Anywhere’ policy, which will now count one work-from-home day as a …