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The Nation

Making a Living: The history of what we call work.

Instead of trying to recover a long-lost past or aligning ourselves with the latest views on human nature, we will have to …

Digiday

Remote work is causing anxiety levels to spike: Here's what creative bosses are doing about it

Just as offices begin to reopen or at least contemplate doing so, a new study suggests that remote work is taking its toll on …

Skift

What Will It Take to Create a Global Digital Nomad Passport?

It will soon reach a point where it won’t be efficient for so many countries to have their own passes, so a universal …

CNBC

'The great reimagination of work': Why 50% of workers want to make a career change

“Over half of the employees want to leave [their jobs], and there’s really two reasons that came out of the …

IEEE Spectrum

U.S. Tech Salaries Grow, But Not For Everyone Gender and race gaps widen even as tech booms

Job satisfaction data in the 2020 survey are the first to reflect the pandemic effect. This analysis looks at several …

The Startup

I Became a Digital Nomad, but I Had Nowhere to Go

One year into my digital nomad adventure, I realize that I got what I wanted, but it didn’t fit with the rest of my …

Reuters

PwC offers U.S. employees full-time remote work

Accounting and consulting firm PwC told Reuters on Thursday it will allow all its 40,000 U.S. client services employees to …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #185

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 49 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Bloomberg

Remote Work Has Vastly Improved the Black Worker Experience

A survey finds that Black employees in white collar jobs feel more valued and supported working from home.

Fortune

Remote work is popular, but 'moments that matter' happen onsite, say top executives

Virtual and hybrid work models are becoming the standard for many companies. However, “people want to come back into …

American Psychological Association

The American workforce faces compounding pressure

After more than a year of working during the pandemic, the American workforce reports compounding pressures that are …

Micropreneur Life

The e-Residency program of Lithuania just launched, but it's still in its early alpha stage

I just became a Lithuanian e-Resident. For those of you who still don’t know about it, Lithuania launched a program …

Phys.org

Getting beyond small talk: Study finds people enjoy deep conversations with strangers

People benefit from deep and meaningful conversations that help us forge connections with one another, but we often stick to …

Where's Your Ed At?

The New Anti-Remote Propaganda Wants To Gaslight You Back To The Office

This, like many anti-remote pieces, seems to be entirely focused on creating a culture of fear around remote work - and just …

Ivaylo Durmonski

Why Obsessively Following Successful People Online is Dangerous

Why do people keep following other people online? Why do people voluntarily disturb their attention by creating an insanely …

Recode

Google's plan to cut pay for remote workers who relocate is a bad idea

Google recently bet $2 billion that its New York workforce will return to the office. But to encourage its employees to …

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 …