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Planetizen

Some Commute Times Worsening Despite Remote Work Trends

The unpredictability of constantly changing commuting trends has some workers seeing much longer commute times as …

Axios

The number of people working remotely tripled during COVID

The number of people primarily working from home tripled between 2019 and 2021, per survey results released Thursday by the …

Reddit

After five years of nomading we made a rookie mistake we won't make again

Greetings from Ohrid, Macedonia, which has turned out to be a pretty phenomenal place to spend a month. Full Trip Report to …

Insider

Travelers are slamming Airbnb chore lists that tell guests to mow the lawn, do the laundry, and take out the trash — on top of paying $125 cleaning fees

Some Airbnb hosts are requiring guests to complete lengthy chore lists on top of paying cleaning fees up to $375, the Wall …

Hacker News

What jobs will be big in the future that don't exist yet?

I’m putting together a list of future jobs that she can think about (space mining engineer, neural lace technologist, …

Stay SaaSy

Build Your Career on Dirty Work

Whenever people ask me for advice on career growth, I share what has worked reasonably well for me: find a growth company, …

LinkedIn

Culture is Key to Hybrid Work

But from my experience, if you are counting on forced hours spent in a traditional office to create collaboration and provide …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #257

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 37 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Reddit

Does anybody manage a fully remote team of employees? Is there anything you should watch out for or avoid?

I work at a startup and two weeks ago, I got promoted to be one of the youngest product managers in my company.

Thing is, …

The Workplace

How should we handle an over-productive employee?

A hyper-productive, stellar employee doesn’t have enough tasks to do and is getting worried that this might mean he is …

HRReporter

How to weed out fraudulent candidates with rise of remote work

One of the biggest nightmares for HR and recruiters is verifying that a shiny new hire is actually who they say they are.

Harvard Business Review

The New Rules of Work Clothes

After two years of hastily throwing a business jacket over a T-shirt and sweatpants while letting people into our homes …

Workonomics

Roundup #2: The 'Quiet Quitting' Phenomenon

Whatever the story is with quiet quitting, the levels of actively disengaged workers (getting into rage quitting territory) …

Derek Power

This 'Return to the Office' Rhetoric needs to end.

The office isn’t dead, but if you don’t trust your employees to work remotely your company might very well be.

Texas Monthly

Why Empty Offices Are Becoming Apartments in Texas's Big Cities

With workers continuing to stay home post-pandemic and housing in short supply, developers in the state’s largest …

Fast Company

Working remotely can make impostor syndrome worse. Here's how to manage it

The CMO of Norwest Venture Partners reveals her own struggle with impostor syndrome during the pandemic and the lessons she …

Hacker News

Location based pay is killing my motivation, how do others handle it?

Recently I got to know the pay scales that my peers and even junior developers are getting in the US/EU. It is substantially …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #254

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 38 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

The Harvard Gazette

Back to office? Stay remote? Go hybrid?

Bosses shouldn’t just go with their guts, and consensus may not work. Start by deciding what really matters, business …

Harvard Business Review

Quiet Quitting Is About Bad Bosses, Not Bad Employees

Every employee, every workday, makes a decision: Are they only willing to do the minimum work necessary to keep their job? Or …

The Washington Post

Bosses say remote work kills culture. These companies disagree

Some business leaders worry remote options could destroy their company culture. But companies that have operated remotely for …

Gallup

Returning to the Office: The Current, Preferred and Future State of Remote Work

Using a nationally representative sample of 8,090 remote-capable U.S. employees surveyed in June 2022, we explored the …

World Economic Forum

Here's how remote work hampers innovation, according to MIT

The debate over what is lost when remote work replaces an in-person workplace just got an infusion of much-needed data. …

Fortune

The remote work wars are actually just one giant misunderstanding

In pre-pandemic times, the specter of reduced productivity was a main reason bosses were wary of remote work. That line of …

The New Yorker

If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever

We’re thrilled to invite you to a fourth-round interview—an overnight camping trip with our twenty-five-person …

Reddit

What are your travel related pet peeves?

A couple days ago I was queueing behind someone at the security line at a small airport. He got to the front of the queue, …

The Guardian

Is the work-from-home debate already over?

Both remote work and a return to the office have their benefits – which is why a compromise is inevitable.

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #254

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 38 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Fast Company

Leaders need to drop these 4 outdated remote work myths to stay competitive

Gusto’s head of Remote Experiences explains that it’s easy to make quick judgments about new work styles, but …