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Jumpstart

Asynchronous communication for meaningful decisions, fair evaluations and fast learning

Not a week goes by and another company publishes its commitment to embrace post-pandemic remote work.

The overwhelming answer …

Insider

Zillow is adopting a hybrid model of work, but its CEO says it's trying to prevent one major downside: a 'two-class system' where those who come into the office are viewed as better employees

What Barton is alluding to is that idea that employees who choose to report to the office either some of the time or …

Insider

Japan has appointed a 'Minister of Loneliness' after seeing suicide rates in the country increase for the first time in 11 years

Japan has appointed a “Minister of Loneliness” to take try and reduce loneliness and social isolation among its …

Insider

Lead urbanism expert Richard Florida's response on how big cities will thrive during the new era of remote work

One of the great ironies of the pandemic is that it fundamentally changes the game of economic development from chasing …

NBER

Housing Consumption and the Cost of Remote Work

Prior to the pandemic, the expenditure share on housing was more than seven percent higher for remote households compared to …

Ynetnews

Israel is surprising location for digital nomads

Likely to be one of the first countries to open its borders thanks to its world-leading vaccination drive, Israel could see …

Reuters

Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising, new Census report shows

The share of Americans working more than one job to make ends meet has been growing over the past two decades, and the pay …

BBC

How your space shapes the way you view remote work

The quality of your workspace shapes your work-from-home experience – so perceptions on whether remote work is succeeding …

McKinsey Global Institute

The future of work after COVID-19

Considering only remote work that can be done without a loss of productivity, we find that about 20 to 25 percent of the …

Motherboard

U.S. Airports No Longer Have to Build Their Own Terrible Trains

The byzantine bureaucratic rule that made useful airport connections to mass transit difficult is finally gone. Its legacy …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #202

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

Harvard Business Review

How to Be Funny at Work

Research shows that teams that laugh together are more engaged and creative. So how do we bring more humor into the …

George Blackshaw

"Location-Based Pay" - Who Are You to Complain?

Should remote workers have their pay reduced if they move somewhere cheap? It’s a popular debate as COVID ravages the …

Increment

Ask an expert: How can engineers ace their remote job interviews?

Best practices for crafting your resume, doing your research, and—hopefully—landing the job.

Spotify

Distributed-First Is the Future of Work at Spotify

Today, Spotify is proud to introduce Work From Anywhere (WFA), a new way of collaborating that allows Spotifiers to work from …

Rado's Blog

Measuring the output of remote teams

“Are people working” is the wrong question. The right question is, “are we delivering” and “are …

Levels

How Levels Does Meetings

Since we don’t have an office and can’t rely on everyone being in the same place at the same time, we tend to …

The New York Times

Reddit Is America's Unofficial Unemployment Hotline

As hiring stalls and the economy shows signs of slowing again, the continued popularity of r/Unemployment underscores how the …

Reset Work

How to succeed with remote and hybrid work

Almost a year later, what do we really know about how to manage remote work better? And how can we best prepare for the …

Inc.

The Top 5 Things 2020 Taught Us About Remote Work

Whatever the future of work holds, use the lessons of the past year to get smarter about how you work and manage employees …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #202

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

The Verge

Salesforce declares the 9-to-5 workday dead, will let some employees work remotely from now on

Cloud computing company Salesforce is joining other Silicon Valley tech giants in announcing a substantial shift in how it …

Temporary heresy

Talent is largely a myth

With the amount of conversations, conference talks and hype going on around talent, you would expect people will have an …

Reuters

Managing your boss: adjusting to narcissists, 'ghosts,' gaslighters

Most people think of managing as a top-down process, but you also “manage” your boss, whether you realize it or …

Shin Kim

Shift to Remote Work Based on 7,000+ Hacker News Job Posts

Indeed it sure feels like everyone is leaning into remote work. But how is it backed up by data? Can we quantify the remote …

Hacker News

Team fun event ideas during WFH?

Can y’all share any team fun event ideas that have worked well for you during the WFH/pandemic period? My folks miss …

Computerworld

Remote work 2.0 — when WFH really means 'work from anywhere'

Many companies have embraced a work-from-home model, but most aren’t prepared for what comes next. Here’s what to …

BBC

The computers rejecting your job application

I wondered: is it fair for a computer alone to accept or reject your job application?

Welcome to the fast-growing world of AI …

Thinking Through

Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar

Swiss-cheese calendar causes a massive amount of context-switch between different work priorities. By the time one meeting …