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Bloomberg

Zoom, Teams, Slack Are Wreaking Havoc on Employee Productivity

Shifting between multiple apps to get stuff done drains workers’ time, efficiency and engagement. Can anything be done? …

Philipp Hauer's Blog

Lessons Learned from the Book 'Effective Remote Work'

I enjoyed reading “Effective Remote Work” by James Stanier. I wrote down my lessons learned.

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #248

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 41 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

BBC

No more airplane mode? EU to allow calls on flights

Airline passengers in the European Union (EU) will soon be able to use their phones to full effect in the sky.

The European …

Intelligencer

Remote Work Is Poised to Devastate America's Cities In order to survive, cities must let developers convert office buildings into housing.

The “work from home” revolution has been very good for political columnists who like to write shirtless in pajama …

The New York Times

Wave of Job-Switching Has Employers on a Training Treadmill

The rise in turnover since the pandemic started has a cost in productivity: “It’s taking longer to get stuff out …

The Wall Street Journal

Laid Off Tech Workers Quickly Find New Jobs

Openings across the economy are down from highs but far exceed the number of unemployed Americans.

Reddit

What was your favorite stop in 2022 and why?

Where did you stay that you enjoyed the most? How long were you there? What made it so great?

World Economic Forum

Hybrid working: Why there's a widening gap between leaders and employees

Researchers at Ipsos analyzed more than 540,000 survey responses revealing attitudes to hybrid working in 95 countries. The …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #265

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 45 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Moneycontrol

Meta employee buys 12-year lease on cruise ship to see the world while working remotely

Austin Wells, an employee of Meta’s Reality Labs, bought a 12-year lease for a condo on MV Narrative, a mega cruise …

jorzel

Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture

You must protect your time and do not let it be (un)designed by chance and other people. The crucial thing is to find the …

University of Bath

Social media may prevent users from reaping creative rewards of profound boredom - new research

Pandemic study shows distraction of social media may suck up the time and energy that allow us to find new passions.

The Washington Post

Fake job postings are stealing applicants' money and identities

As layoffs continue, job seekers are becoming prime targets for employment scams. Here’s how to avoid falling for one.

San Francisco Chronicle

Will tech layoffs end the era of remote work? Here's what experts predict for 2023

For the past six months or more, many companies that embraced remote work out of necessity have settled into a …

Nautilus

How Mental Time Travel Can Make Us Better People

Kindness lives in the future-present.

TIME

Working From Home Is the Trend of the Year—And Next Year Too

The explosion in working from home triggered by the pandemic is the biggest change to U.S. labor markets since World War …

Fortune

Remote work has created a new rift among couples

Jealousy when one gets to work from home and the other is back to the office.

TIME

Remote Work Is Helping Dads Do More at Home. Let's Make Sure It Stays That Way.

In our survey, nearly half of male caregivers with a child under the age of 15 agreed with the statement, “I personally …

Vox

How workers fought back in 2022

Workers unionized, quit their jobs, and refused to go back to the office.

Bloomberg

The Future of Work Is Lunch

Remember a certain midday meal, the one where you build meaningful relationships with colleagues and business partners? …

Bloomberg

Humans Hold the Key to Collaboration No Matter How Good the Software Tools

What the management theory “forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning” can teach us.

XR Today

The Role of VR in the Future of Remote Work

Here’s a snapshot of how VR will reshape how people work in the real and virtual worlds.

Reddit

Remote managers in global teams - What personal boundaries do you set?

This one is for all the remote workers that work in global teams with different time zones - what boundaries do you set and …

Hacker News

What is the best advice you received in 2022?

I am a believer I can learn from anywhere and I thought I can ask HN folks to share what they learned or received advice that …

Fortune

Dropbox let employees work remotely and saw record-high turnover. Then it offered in-person retreats. Retention soared

Before COVID-19 upended the workplace status quo in the spring of 2020, some 97% of Dropbox employees worked from the office. …

Reuters

High-tech, high-risk: potential pitfalls from remote employee monitoring

There can be no dispute that the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally altered the American workplace by sending employees home to …

Reddit

Does anyone else just feel... burned out? Disjointed? Stretched thin, like butter scraped over too much bread?

I’m done wandering alone, it’s finally broken my brain. No amount of cool vistas and exotic adventures can …

Harvard Magazine

Hybrid Work's Sweet Spot

Does hybrid work harm the bottom line? As organizations across the United States wrestle with post-COVID office policies, …