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Bloomberg

Work From Home Has the Power to Advance Equality—or Set It Back

“Remote work has the potential to open up opportunities. That’s the argument, and that’s true,” says …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #204

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 43 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

The Wall Street Journal

Are Videogames the Future of Remote Work?

One day soon, you may hear a colleague say those ominous words: ‘The boss would like to see you in her castle’

The New Republic

The Dream Job That Wasn't

A lighthouse keeper, a deep-ocean researcher, a park ranger, and a “Snoozetern” on the pitfalls of “doing …

Built In

How Do You Know If a Company Has a Good Remote Work Culture?

The pandemic has turned lots of people on to the benefits of working remotely, creating a large pool of workers who will want …

IMF Blog

The Jobs of Tomorrow

This year, we aim to shed light on the effect of pandemic-related disruptions placed in the broader context of longer-term …

The New York Times

Is Remote Work Making Us Paranoid?

Maybe everyone is actually judging your house on Zoom.

Jessica Poitevien

This Portuguese Island Is Inviting Remote Workers to a Swoon-worthy 'WFH' Setting

Digital Nomads Madeira is a project that will host up to 100 remote workers at a time in the town of Ponta do Sol, home to …

Hacker News

Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?

I’m no more productive at work. I produce in a week the same amount of code I used to produce in a day before the …

The Guardian

Unilever workers will never return to desks full-time, says boss

The boss of Unilever, one of the UK’s biggest companies, has said his office workers will never return to their desks …

Mainichi Japan

'Rent-a-person who does nothing' in Tokyo receives endless requests, gratitude

A 37-year-old Tokyo man who says he rents himself out to other people “to do nothing” has been inundated with …

CNN

Venice is watching tourists' every move

They’re watching you, wherever you walk. They know exactly where you pause, when you slow down and speed up, and they …

Mark Manson

1,273 People Share Their Best Life Lessons from 2020

Even if 2020 was one long dumpster fire of a year, we sure learned a lot about ourselves. Here’s what nearly 1300 …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #198

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 42 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Increment

The future of work is written

Exploring the opportunities of asynchronous communication and the (conscientiously) written word.

Axios

2021 will demand new kinds of video conferencing

Last year entrenched videoconferencing at the center of our work and private lives — but also showed us the limits and …

Curious

The Rise of Subscription Living

Tourism may be dead, but the future of travel is bright.

About Time

Time Awareness or How I Found Time for Life While Working Remotely

Since the last March, like a lot of other people, I was forced to work remotely. It was not the first time, but somehow it …

The Startup

Employers Plan To Shift Office Expenses to Employees

Engage employees in planning for a productive, creative work environment that cultivates the best of working from home …

Reuters

U.S. to require negative COVID-19 tests for arriving international air passengers

Marker

Is the Office Dead? Not Exactly

Dropbox, WeWork, and Google all think they have the playbook for the part-time office.

Reddit

What are subtle red flags at a job interview that say "working here would suck"?

• “Well, the overtime isn’t mandatory, but most folks stick around after hours most days.”
• “Yea, …

Sahil Lavingia

No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees

Today, working at Gumroad resembles working on an open source project like Rails. Except it’s neither open source, nor …

Hundred Rabbits

Working Off-Grid Efficiently

Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid since 2016.

Our main problems as a studio were internet scarcity, power …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #198

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 42 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

VentureBeat

After embracing remote work in 2020, companies face conflicts making it permanent

Despite all the predictions about how COVID-19 could lead to a permanent remote workforce, the truth is likely more nuanced. …

Craig Mod

Let's Walk Across Japan, Together

I’d like for us to take a walk together.

A global, distributed, walk across Japan, together, during a year when …

Digiday

'Don't care about those perks': Employees are no longer staying at companies for a cool culture

As employees in industries like tech, advertising and publishing have worked from home for the majority of 2020, the perks of …

Benjamin Yolken

Quitting a new job

Two years ago, I did something that I’d never done in my career before- I left a job (at Nuro) only a few months after …