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BBC

Working from home boosts career progress, say half of women

According to a survey for the BBC, just over half (56%) of women said they thought working from home would help them progress …

The Washington Post

You may get more work done at home. But you'd have better ideas at the office.

Innovation — and productivity — would suffer if remote work became permanent for most employees.

Future

As More Workers Go Solo, the Software Stack Is the New Firm

Lost in all this talk of digital nomads and side gigs, however, are the masses of independent professionals who are working …

The Guardian

Employees are accepting pay cuts to keep working from home. They shouldn't

Working from home has made life easier for many people. But easier or more convenient working conditions shouldn’t come …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #205

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 44 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

1843

Hell is other people: a monk's guide to office life

Dreading returning to the corporate environment? Take some advice from the brethren who lived, worked and died with their …

The Washington Post

Keystroke tracking, screenshots, and facial recognition: The boss may be watching long after the pandemic ends

What workers should know about corporate surveillance software as companies consider permanent remote work policies.

xahteiwi.eu

No, We Won't Have a Video Call for That!

You will never be able to capitalize on work as a distributed team unless you kick some office habits. The key to distributed …

Lenny's Newsletter

The 10 commandments of salary negotiation

Regardless of how senior or junior you are, most tech folks struggle with negotiation. Partially this is because compensation …

BBC

The 'overemployed' workers juggling remote jobs

Two corporate email addresses, two computers, two bosses?

As many knowledge workers have been remote for nearly two years, …

Forbes

The Future Of Hybrid And Remote Work Will Increase Orwellian Big-Brother 'Tattleware' Spyware For Surveilling Workers

To gain back control, bosses have followed people to their homes. Not literally, but via invasive intrusive software.

The Washington Post

Workers are putting on pants to return to the office only to be on Zoom all day

Pandemic-era safety procedures have created a new dynamic at work, in which many employees say they’re operating at …

Paul Tomlinson

Working From Orbit

I’ve been a full-time VR worker since April 2019, spending in the neighborhood of 4,500 hours banging away at real work …

The Guardian

Bosses turn to 'tattleware' to keep tabs on employees working from home

The pandemic prompted a surge in the use of workplace surveillance programs – and they’re not going away any time soon. …

Insider

Employers are being forced to make salaries public — and that's good news for your paycheck

Employers strive to keep compensation levels a secret, and employees have gone along with the culture of silence. But …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #202

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 46 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

The Atlantic

Hard Work Isn't the Point of the Office

The pandemic disrupted soft work—the gossip, eavesdropping, and casual relationship-building that aren’t a formal part …

Medium

Launching Trento Remote: a curated batch for remote mountain living

Trento Remote is a curated, all-in-one program for remote living.

• Housing
• Coworking space
• Organized activities
• Immersed in …

Input

Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com

The once-utopian accommodations site, now headed by an alum of surveillance-analytics firm Palantir, has gone back on its …

Insider

Remote work didn't wipe out big cities — it made them even bigger

Instead of wiping out big cities, remote work seems to be making them even bigger.

When urban dwellers fled for the suburbs …

LinkedIn

America's new remote-work havens: 20 cities that pursue faraway jobs

What’s less well-recognized, and every bit as intriguing, is the degree to which certain cities, chiefly but not …

The Atlantic

Say Goodbye to Your Manager

One truly insufferable habit of the modern manager is their reliance on the sports metaphor—the home run, the Hail Mary, the …

The Wall Street Journal

So, You Think You've Tried Remote Work? You Probably Haven't.

If it was during the pandemic, you don’t really know what it’s like. You might want to try again.

The Atlantic

Another Truth About Remote Work

A misconception about the prevalence of working from home explains a lot about confirmation bias in America.

World Happiness Report

The World Happiness Report 2021

The World Happiness Report 2021 focuses on the effects of COVID-19 and how people all over the world have fared. Our aim was …

Hacker News

What're some great cities to live for $2k USD per month?

I’m a single 31yo guy looking move somewhere new for 1-2 years. I’d like to have a studio/1br to myself, cook …

Seth's Blog

Intentional connection in the digital office

The real challenge of remote work isn’t that it somehow erases the mysterious serendipity of magical office collisions. …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #182

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 47 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

BBC

Job vacancies surge past one million in new record

Job vacancies have hit a record high as the economic recovery continues, according to official figures.