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Bloomberg

Work Here! Tourist-Starved Caribbean Woos Homebound Workers

With traditional tourism hammered by the pandemic and many in Europe and North America working from home amid shorter days …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #139

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 34 new remote jobs, a feature on Confrere and the week’s top remote work …

BBC

Deutsche Bank: Tax home workers 'to help pay those who cannot'

Economists at Deutsche Bank suggest a tax of 5% of a worker’s salary if they choose to work from home.

The tax would be …

The Conversation

What Day of the Dead tells us about the Aztec philosophy of happiness

For the Aztecs, then, a happy life is achieved through balance. Individually, this means balancing one’s …

The New York Times

The Digital Nomads Did Not Prepare for This

They moved to exotic locales to work through the pandemic in style. But now tax trouble, breakups and Covid guilt are setting …

Saurabh Khawase

When Remote Work doesn't cut it

The challenges surrounding remote work outweigh it’s promises. Not every company is a FAANG, and companies will …

Nautilus

The Joys of Being a Stoic

Suppose I have a job interview coming up. I want the job, of course. But that’s not up to me. It depends on the …

The Points Guy

Which US airlines are blocking middle seats?

While it’s important to check with your airline as things can change by the day, here’s what you can expect when …

blogTO

Toronto is drastically cutting office space as remote work could become permanent

…the City surveyed staff, and found that 95 per cent of those involved in the survey would like to continue working …

The Startup

Why Working from Home Is Here to Stay

But, before I go on and on about all the reasons I love work from home and why I think it’s the best thing since sliced …

Harvard University

'Working' Remotely? Selection, Treatment, and Market Provision of Remote Work

We find remote work improves individual productivity but worsens worker selection. Calls per hour rose sharply by 7% when …

Reddit

Anyone else sick of AirBNB?

Sick of the annoying hosts. The surprise fees. The unclean apartments. The furniture that’s pretty for photos, but …

Medium

We Need a Remote Work Commute

It turns out that converting that time into something beneficial has been challenging. And, the longer I go commute-less, the …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #138

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 36 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Upvoted – The official Reddit blog

Evolving Reddit's Workforce

To help drive the idea home (pun intended), we’ve reimagined our approach to compensation in the US. To support …

Christian Science Monitor

For those with disabilities, shift to remote work has opened doors

The COVID-19 pandemic has created many challenges, but disability advocates are welcoming one societal shift that has huge …

Scientific American

Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time

A pushback has arisen to seasonal clock changes that affect mood, sleep and general well-being.

Harvard Business Review

Our Work-from-Anywhere Future

Individuals, teams, entire workforces, can perform well while being entirely distributed—and they have. So now we face new …

Know Your Team

How to build team morale remotely

Here, I’ll share some specific practices for how to build team morale remotely, based on research from the past 20 …

UC Santa Cruz

Scientists discover how a common mutation leads to 'night owl' sleep disorder

A new study by researchers at UC Santa Cruz shows how a genetic mutation throws off the timing of the biological clock, …

Sidewalk Labs

City of the Future: Remote Work

In an era of remote work, when people can work from anywhere, where will they choose to live? And what can cities do to set …

Fast Company

I'm deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call

Can you hear me? No, but I can read you. A hearing-impaired product designer has his team experience his world and says we …

The Prof G Show

The Remote Work Revolution

On the first edition of The Prof G Show’s Geobusiness Expedition, Scott discusses the redistribution from commercial to …

Dana Jones' Software Development Blog

Making Remote Work: Part I - Building Trust With Remote Staff

Your team doesn’t owe you trust simply by virtue of you being their manager. They owe you respect, as we all owe each …

Harvard Business Review

What Job Crafting Looks Like

Job crafting — changing your job to make it more engaging and meaningful — can take many forms. We’ve been studying job …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #137

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 33 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Business Insider

Automation is projected to erase 85 million global jobs by 2025

In the near term, we believe the shift to remote work will be an even bigger driver of job displacement than automation. When …

Hoanh An

Get started with 2-minute rule

Whenever you find it hard to get started on a task, consider scaling it down into a 2-minute version.

The idea is to make it …

Hacker News

How are Digital Nomads coping with travel restrictions?

Many countries have effectively closed their borders, by not issuing tourist/visit visas, or requiring 14+ days’ …