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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.

AP

Silicon Valley finds remote work is easier to begin than end

Technology companies that led the charge into remote work as the pandemic unfurled are confronting a new challenge: how, when …

Ivaylo Durmonski

My Life After Quitting Social Media

Social media is like cigarettes and alcohol. Toxic. Addictive. Yet widely accessible. Everybody knows it’s bad. …

WIRED

Digital nomads are here to save Spain's ghost towns

Dozens of villages across Spain are in terminal decline. A new visa scheme aimed at digital nomads could revive them.

The Boston Globe

Remote work made life easier for employees with disabilities. Advocates say the option should stay

The pandemic upended corporate culture as workers traded office buildings for their kitchen tables. For most, the change was …

AFAR

Europe's Entry Rules Just Got More Confusing

European countries have been updating their entry requirements since the United States was removed from the EU safe travel …

Nature

The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused a rapid shift to full-time remote work for many information workers. …

The Verge

Automated hiring software is mistakenly rejecting millions of viable job candidates

A new report says automated systems are hurting the US labor market.

Harvard Business Review

Collaboration Overload Is Sinking Productivity

Our Connected Commons research over the past decade on collaborative overload shows that more efficient collaborators — those …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #181

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 35 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

BBC

How finger counting gives away your nationality

Many people around the world learn to count on their fingers, but we don’t all do it in the same way. Could there be a …

Bloomberg

Nomura Tells Staff Not to Smoke Cigarettes When Working From Home

The rules will be based on mutual trust and don’t include a punitive clause, Otsu said. The company doesn’t plan …

Cornell Chronicle

Rejected internal applicants twice as likely to quit

Internal job applicants who face rejection are nearly twice as likely to leave their organizations than those who were either …

The Lily

Remote work doesn't have to be lonely. Grab your laptop and a friend.

As coronavirus case numbers soar with the rise of the delta variant, many employers are delaying their return-to-office …

The Wall Street Journal

A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: 'I Just Feel Lost'

The number of men enrolled at two- and four-year colleges has fallen behind women by record levels, in a widening education …