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CNN

Remote work made life easier for many people with disabilities. They want the option to stay

In the United States, 26% of adults have some kind of disability, according to the Centers for Disease Control and …

Propmodo

Remote Work Removing Stigma of Virtual Offices

The value of the office is more than the work that gets done in the space or the people who work there. Having an exclusive …

Gallup

The 'Great Resignation' Is Really the 'Great Discontent'

People are calling it the “Great Resignation,” and as the Gallup data show, it’s not an industry, role or …

Governing

Vehicles Are Still Firmly in Control of City Streets

Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities and bike riding continues to grow. Yet urban streets are still designed and …

Harvard Business Review

Don't Lose the Democratizing Effect of Remote Work

The good news for employees is that 90% of large companies are embracing the hybrid model, which combines on-site work with …

BBC

Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?

It’s not often that economies face the disruption we’ve endured in the last year, and none of us should be …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #202

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

Bloomberg

Americans Are Willing to Take Pay Cuts to Never Go Into the Office Again

A new survey shows 65% of workers who said their jobs could be done entirely remotely were willing to take a 5% reduction to …

Los Angeles Times

Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era

There’s an air of desperation among tech employers this summer. Software talent, it seems, is in such high demand that …

The Guardian

Is remote working better for the environment? Not necessarily

There’s an intuitive assumption – encouraged by lockdown memories of rush-hour quiet and dissipated smog – that remote …

Ars Technica

Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work

CEOs want workers back at their desks. Employees and the virus have other plans.

Axios

Stat of the day: 38% of remote workers work from bed

Forget the home office — 45% of American teleworkers regularly work from a couch, 38% regularly work from bed and 20% often …

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

The Remote Culture War Has Begun, And Executives Are Pumping Out "Back To Work" Propaganda

The “back to work” movement is gaining momentum because it sounds nice, and it’s vaguely connected to the …

80,000 Hours

Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work

In this interview Cal and Rob cover that, as well as:

• Is the hyperactive hive-mind really one of the world’s most …

BBC

The rise of never-ending job interviews

Some companies are asking candidates to attend multiple interviews. But too many rounds could be a red flag – and even drive …

ethena

Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?

The hard truth that many companies struggle to wrap their heads around is that they should be paying their long-tenured …

The Atlantic

Why Managers Fear a Remote-Work Future

Remote work lays bare many brutal inefficiencies and problems that executives don’t want to deal with because they …

Counter Arts

You are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance.

You are not lazy. You are not undisciplined. You are not irresponsible. You are not suffering from mysterious ‘Just …

Vox

Companies that make people return to the office will lose employees

We’re in an era where people have tasted a different way of working, a different way of connecting with the people they …

Psyche

How to gain more from your reading

There’s more to words than meets the eye. Deepen your appreciation of literature through the art of slow, attentive …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #175

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 58 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Harvard Business Review

How to Negotiate a Remote Work Arrangement

How exactly should you ask for a work-from-anywhere arrangement when negotiating a job offer, or when you’ve been …

Vox

Let me work from home, or I will find another job

Employers in the US are grappling with whether and how to bring employees back to the office or other place of work. Using …

Alexey Guzey

Co-working

I no longer believe that it’s possible to achieve extremely high productivity sustained over long periods of time …

The New York Times

Return to Office Hits a Snag: Young Resisters

A generation gap has emerged between them and colleagues who value the workplace over the advantages of remote work. Bridging …

Slate Magazine

The People Who'd Rather Quit Than Give Up Remote Work

But are people really willing to quit their jobs if they can’t keep working in PJ’s? I’ve been curious …

Bloomberg

The Remote-Work Czar Is the New Shortcut to the C-Suite

One of the most sought-after management jobs right now is leading large, far-flung teams through uncharted waters. Human …

World Economic Forum

The surprising toll open-plan offices have on our mental health

We’ve found a significant causal relationship between open-plan office noise and physiological stress.

Our results show …

Aeon

We're all teenagers now

Adolescence isn’t a time of life so much as a frame of mind. Liberating yet damaging, it’s transformed the US and …