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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 …

BBC

Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'

Many firms are resistant to the idea of a four-day week but the think tank Autonomy, which looks at work-related issues, …

Thomas Hühn

The Now Habit

Procrastination is a mechanism to cope with the fear that is linked to the beginning or the end of a task. Nobody is …

WSU News

Frequent travel could make you 7% happier

People dreaming of travel post-COVID-19 now have some scientific data to support their wanderlust.

A new study in the journal …

The New Republic

The Perpetual Disappointment of Remote Work

What the troubled history of telecommuting tells us about its future.

World Economic Forum

Germany drafting law to give people the legal right to work from home

Germany has said that it wants to give its citizens the legal right to work from home.

Workers in many parts of the globe are …

The New York Times

Working From Bed Is Actually Great

A perfect metaphor for a year of giving up and giving in.

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #145

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 56 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Harvard Business Review

3 Tenets of a Strong Remote Culture

The leading consulting firms, amongst others, have consistently shown that it’s quite possible to build distinctively …

ideopunk

100 Tips For A Better Life

The other day I made an advice thread based on Putanumonit’s from last year! If you know a source for one of these, …

Outside Online

Journey to the Center of the Earth

For nearly half a century, legends of a giant cave in the Andes—holding artifacts that could rewrite human history—have …

Zain Rizvi

Interview advice that got me offers from Google, Microsoft, and Stripe

In the decade since I’ve lost track of how many hours I’ve spent in the interview room, on both sides of the …

BBC

A new way to travel across the US

Stretching an extraordinary 3,700 miles from Washington DC to the Pacific Ocean, an ambitious new bike trail is aiming to be …

Big Technology

Where Tech Workers Are Moving: New LinkedIn Data vs. the Narrative

The key beneficiaries of this year’s tech migration are less buzzy cities like Madison, Wisconsin; Richmond, Virginia; …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #144

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 76 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.