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Should remote workers be paid differently based on location?

Assuming two developers with the same skills, experience and productivity. One lives in New York, the other lives in …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #140

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 28 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Stripe: Blog

Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in

We’ve seen promising gains in how we communicate, build more resilient and relevant products, and reach and retain …

The New Yorker

Why Remote Work Is So Hard—and How It Can Be Fixed

As we enter the uncertain second phase of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s unclear when, or whether, knowledge workers …

WIRED

Remote Work Has Its Perks, Until You Want a Promotion

Companies like Facebook and Twitter expect many employees to work far from headquarters after the pandemic. That calls for a …

Marker

Remote Work Means Anyone Can Take Your Job

Now thousands of people could be competing for your role from around the world.

Bloomberg

To Avoid Burnout, Work Less and Ignore 'Productivity Propaganda'

There’s burnout, and then there’s pandemic-induced burnout. For many workers, the professional environment has …

Victor Mota

Beyond Remote

Despite what being forced to WFH overnight due to covid seems to imply, remote is not a switch you can flip on for a company. …

Outside Online

What the Future of Adventure Travel Looks Like

Travel is poised to make a strong comeback, according to experts. We talked to guides, company founders, flight specialists, …

Nfx

The New Generation of Labor Marketplaces and the Future of Work

With unemployment expected to reach 20-30%, on par with the Great Depression, the COVID-19 crisis heralds a once-in-a-century …

Harvard Business Review

Want to Be More Productive? Try Doing Less.

We’ve been taught that if we want more — money, achievement, vitality, joy, peace of mind — we need to do more, to add …

Fortune

What do workers fear most about going back to the office? Each other

As coronavirus lockdowns begin to ease, the biggest fear among white-collar workers in the U.S. about returning to the office …

Fast Company

Surveilling employees who work from home could do more harm than good

While digital monitoring is clearly an invasion of privacy—a necessary one, according to the companies that offer such …

Bloomberg

Scared Americans Desperate to Travel Are Buying Up 'Covid Campers'

Cooped-up Americans desperate to get out after months of lockdowns are dreaming of doing something—anything—that resembles a …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #132

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 32 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

CityLab

Even the Pandemic Can't Kill the Open-Plan Office

Even before coronavirus, many workers hated the open-plan office. Now that shared work spaces are a public health risk, …

The New York Times

How to Be Alone When You're Really Bad at It

I was struggling with quarantine — until I found the polar explorers.

Rolling Stone

Twitter's Jack Dorsey Is Giving Andrew Yang $5 Million to Build the Case for a Universal Basic Income

Dorsey, who backed Yang’s presidential run, says he wants his donation to drive more experimentation about UBI in the …

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 …