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Harvard Business Review

Work-Life Balance Is a Cycle, Not an Achievement

Research has definitively shown that overwork isn’t good for employees or their companies — and yet, in practice, it …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #149

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 67 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Harvard Business Review

Help Your Team Beat WFH Burnout

Leaders have a responsibility to consider the experience of their workers most affected by work-from-home burnout and to …

View from Initialized

Post-Pandemic Silicon Valley Isn't A Place

Two-thirds of our portfolio companies will still use an office, but we’ll see a huge step change pre- and …

Harvard Business Review

9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2021 and Beyond

While enabling employees to work remotely became commonplace across 2020 (and will continue this year and beyond), the next …

Inc.

Simply Replicating the In-Office Experience Remotely Doesn't Work

Many have been trying to replicate their physical office environment in a virtual setting. But replication doesn’t …

Noahpinion

Can knowledge industries escape superstar cities?

The real question is whether distributed work will allow second-tier cities like Tulsa to take enough knowledge workers to …

First Round Review

Use This Startup's Playbook for Running Impactful Virtual Offsites

Offsites may have been paused or put off initially, but as many startups embrace remote-first policies and plan to stay out …

Ambition & Balance - by Doist

Can Remote Teams Be Innovative?

It’s hard not to think that leaders who say remote teams can’t be innovative are telling on themselves. Instead …

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