Articles

The Economist

ABBA and the rise of the work-from-home rock star

Musicians are finding profitable ways to perform remotely to their fans.

The Independent

UK four-day week pilot begins with 70 companies and thousands of workers

The biggest ever four-day working week pilot is set to begin in the UK, with over 70 companies and 3,300 workers ready to …

SSRN

Work From Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse

We study the impact of remote work on the commercial office sector. We document large shifts in lease revenues, office …

Harvard Business Review

How "Digital Nomad" Visas Can Boost Local Economies

Secondly and importantly, digital nomads could act as catalysts for knowledge and resource flows between regions, benefitting …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #298

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

Protocol

Remote work is closing the geographic pay gap

Tech companies can still save on payroll by hiring engineers in cheaper cities. But the geographic wage gap in tech is …

Reddit

Cities you never felt lonely and miserable?

The biggest downside of DNing is the lack of emotional cushion of friends and family. Which cities made you feel instantly at …

Governing

Remote Work Persists, Forcing Cities, Companies to Adapt

While many firms expect workers to be remote about 30 percent of the time after the pandemic, the rate has …

Bill Mei

Friendships form via shared context, not shared activities

In my early attempts to make friends, I tried inviting people with shared interests to activities like sailing or grabbing …

Recode

Tell your boss: Working from home is making you more productive

Employers are missing out by calling workers back to the office.

Perceptive Travel

The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s

In an adapted excerpt from an interview on the Deviate podcast with Rolf Potts, a writer and speaker best known as a futurist …

BRINK

Working From Anywhere: A Differentiator in the War for Talent?

In the context of talent shortage, companies are more likely to increase work flexibility to attract and retain employees, …

Fortune

Millennials call it 'quiet vacationing,' but it's really remote work gone wrong—and it's CEOs' worst nightmare

According to The Harris Poll’s Out of Office Culture Report from May surveying 1,170 employed U.S. adults, 37% of …

Reddit

Co-Working spaces are overrated and expensive?

Is there something I’m missing here?

Is it real cool to visit these places or something?

Bloomberg

Compensation Is Becoming an Even Bigger Headache in the Remote-Work Era

Companies try to figure out fair pay amid an uptick in relocations and a tight labor market.

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #248

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

The Async Review

How to Beat Loneliness in Remote Work

Even before the pandemic, worker loneliness was a major public health crisis. The situation today is more troubling still.

Financial Times

I tried remote working from this subtropical island. Don't get too jealous

Are sun, surf and yoga incompatible with actual work? Cristina Criddle finds out.

Axios

Millennials drive remote work push

An overwhelming majority of Americans (77%) whose job can be done remotely say it’s important that their employer allow …

Fortune

Remote workers must not be left behind, workplace design experts warn

Managers have a lot of work to do to rethink the value of in-person work in an office and make it be about more than keeping …

BBC

The workers quitting over return-to-office policies

Employees have long threatened to walk if employers call them back into the office. Now, the dominoes are starting to fall.

FiveThirtyEight

They Never Got To WFH

But most Americans don’t have jobs in which telework is an option. There are fields where that’s not surprising: …

Hacker News

6-hour workdays more important than 4-day workweeks IMO

I got nothing against 4 day workweeks - I myself work part time, but I rather work 2-4 hours for even 6 days a week and …

Twist

What the heck is asynchronous communication anyway?

Drawing on the experience of my own fully remote, async-first company, Doist, I’ll explain what asynchronous …

Reddit

What would you do if your job suddenly decided to go hybrid?

My SO is a digital nomad, and her job recently decided they’ll be going hybrid. She now has to decide to quickly find a …

BBC

How remote work could nix the sick day

Sick days used to mean resting, not working. Now, however, more employees are logging in from home as they fight illness – …

Cambridge Clarion

Computer work lying down comfortably with a home-made stand over the bed

This article reports the result of a successful personal attempt to find an arrangement of keyboard, mouse and monitor for …

Axios

Employers are allowing more remote work days

Bosses are coming around to the idea of remote work, at least for part of the week.

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #248

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