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The Cadence Blog

Your daily standups should be async. Here's why

While the daily stand-up was created with good intentions, they’re more productive and better for the team when done …

Northstack

Bring on the Experts: Iceland should target remote workers and help them work from Iceland

I’m making the case for why Iceland should invest – immediately, and quite heavily – in making Iceland the best place …

The Verge

Facebook says it will permanently shift tens of thousands of jobs to remote work

Up to half of employees could work remotely within five to 10 years, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says in an interview.

The Verge

Cities are transforming as electric bike sales skyrocket

Bicycles are the ideal mode of transportation as cities emerge from quarantine, made even more appealing now that summer is …

Swissinfo

Companies must pay share of rent for employees working from home

German-language paper Tages-Anzeiger reports that Switzerland’s top court has ruled that employers are required to …

Blair Reeves

Paying Remote Employees Fairly

…cost of living adjustments (COLAs) are deeply unfair and a bad practice. People doing the same jobs and providing the …

Hacker News

What are your outdoor friendly remote work tips?

Do you do anything to allow yourself to spend more time outside whilst working?

I.e. laptop glare protectors, shadings for …

The Onion

Coworkers On Zoom Trapped In Infinite Loop Of Telling Each Other 'Oh Sorry, No, Go Ahead'

Coworkers at the advertising firm Horizon Group remained trapped in an infinite loop of telling one another “Oh sorry, …

Margins

Software will eat software in a remote-first world

I believe one of the more subtle impacts of this new way of working will be the tech workers losing some of the leverage they …

TechCrunch

Work From Home is dead, long live Work From Anywhere

Work From Anywhere may not save a company any money whatsoever. What was once large office complexes may be a handful of …

WIRED

Sundar Pichai Says Google Doesn't Plan to Go Entirely Remote

In an interview, the Google and Alphabet CEO discusses working from home, weathering antitrust probes, and how the company …

Retool Blog

The Technology That Changed Air Travel

A lot has changed about air travel since it went mainstream in the 1930s. On-board smoking, free-flowing booze, and five-star …

The Guardian

Working from home has a long history – be careful what you wish for not wanting to go back to the office

Many of us regard the prospect of returning to a centralised workplace with a mixture of ambivalence and dread.

rachelbythebay

Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them.

Onboarding at a new company can be a weird thing. Besides the very corporate-sounding name itself (that makes some of us …

Unlucky in Cards

Gradually, Then Suddenly

Change happens slowly, then all at once.

The forces that enable working in a distributed fashion have been in motion for …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #114

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 25 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

The Guardian

Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds

Europe’s first national, government-backed basic income experiment did not do much to encourage recipients into work …

BuzzFeed

I Don't Feel Like Buying Stuff Anymore

Our economy is built on Americans of all class levels buying things. What happens when the ability — and desire — to do so …

Hacker News

If you could work remote where would you live?

In the current climate it appears remote working will be more common. So where would you want to move too? Or would you …

BBC

The world's most accessible stress reliever

Whether you have the voice of a songbird or sound like some ball-bearings in a blender, singing can have some remarkably …

WIRED

'It's bullshit': Inside the weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping

In Bali, western immigrants are selling products they’ve never handled, from countries they’ve never visited, to …

David Perell

Don't Go to College This Fall

Use your time to start an online business. Live at home, spend as little money as possible, and find a side job if you need …

Marker

This Is Your Brain on Remote Work

A look at the science behind working at home, and what you can do to avoid cognitive pitfalls.

Chief's Newsletter

Career advice for people with bad luck

Most career advice on the internet is from people who had some sort of meteoric success. Why read advice from someone …

Philosophical Hacker

My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs

I wrapped up my job search recently, and I’m happy to say that I’ll be joining a YC-backed startup called …

Dropbox Blog

The crucial difference between remote work and distributed work

Remote work is a discipline for the individual worker, but distributed work is a discipline for the entire organization.

Future of Good

Here's why the future of work needs to include Indigenous perspectives post-pandemic

If we want an inclusive and fair future (of work) coming out of the pandemic, it must also be an Indigenous one. A future …

Solipsys Limited

Sell yourself, Sell Your Work ...

Doing technically brilliant work may be enough for your personal gratification, but you should never think it’s enough. …

London Evening Standard

Cycling to work 'can cut risk of heart disease and cancer by a quarter'

A major study tracking more than 300,000 commuters has revealed that cycling to work can cut the risk of dying early from …