Remote Work

Harvard Business School Working Knowledge

Charting the Value of Remote Work: Would You Take a Pay Cut?

More organizations are asking employees to return to offices, but many employees would rather take a pay cut than commute. …

Ars Technica

All federal agencies ordered to terminate remote work—ideally within 30 days

US agencies wasting billions on empty offices a “embarrassment,” RTO memo says.

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #298

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 36 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

UBS

Remote work and its impact on women working from home

In an era of remote work, many hoped for greater gender equity. Yet Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin’s work shows there’s more …

The University of Oxford

Stop asking if remote workers are lazy – Focus on Directing Effort Effectively

Instead of asking whether remote workers are lazy, we should ask whether, and how, different working arrangements enable …

The Conversation

Trump has called time on working from home. Here’s why the world shouldn’t mindlessly follow

According to the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), about 10% of federal workers are fully remote. The …

BBC

Working from home 'not proper work' - ex-Asda boss

Working from home is creating a generation who are “not doing proper work”, the former boss of Marks and Spencer …

The New York Times

C.E.O.s, and President Trump, Want Workers Back in the Office

Amazon, JPMorgan and others have been telling their employees that remote work is over. Now federal employees have been …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #298

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 36 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Russell Baylis

How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain

I work from home everyday, I am susceptible to eye strain, eye pain, and dizziness. Having a working environment that’s as …

The New Yorker

Is Social Media More Like Cigarettes or Junk Food?

Lawmakers attempting to regulate children’s access to social media must decide whether bans or warning labels are the optimal …

Reddit

Is it even worth chasing a remote job nowadays?

I’m wondering how many of you have a remote job while traveling and how many of you have your own businesses/ …

The New York Times

Remote Work Became a Washington Way of Life. Is That About to Change?

Federal employees and others in the capital have grown attached to work-from-home arrangements. But hybrid work may disappear …

WorkLife

Remote work is now the top requested workplace accommodation

HR leaders and managers are getting buried under a sea of remote work requests.

The ability to work remotely was the most …

CEPR

Remote work matters, but culture is the elephant in the room

This column provides empirical evidence on rates of remote work – across industries, occupations, and geographies over time – …

Futurity

The right communication can improve remote work

A new study shows effective leadership communication can boost the success of flexible work arrangements.

Reddit

Is the Digital Nomad Lifestyle Just an Over-Glamorized Scam?

I’ve been hopping from one city to another for nearly three years, living the so-called “digital nomad” …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #298

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 36 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

CNET

I’m a Fully Remote Employee. Does That Make My Internet a Tax Write-Off?

There’s a slight possibility you may be eligible to get back some of your work-from-home internet expenses, but …

Pew Research Center

Many remote workers say they’d be likely to leave their job if they could no longer work from home

A growing number of U.S. companies are requiring workers to return to the office, and President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming …

Harvard Business Review

Research: Gen AI Changes the Value Proposition of Foreign Remote Workers

Given generative AI’s ability to elevate skills across a range of knowledge work categories, a key question arises: does it …

The Register

Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home

Threat to quit still preferred to commuting on packed public transport.

Entrepreneur

Why Are Remote Work Trends So Different in the US and UK?

While the USA and the UK share similarities, they have markedly different remote work cultures. This is particularly …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #298

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 36 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Business Insider

Remote work is here to stay

Amazon and JPMorgan want to put an end to remote work — but it’s too late to stop it.

CBC

Amazon is ending remote work. Its employees hope the company reconsiders

The tech giant and online retailer is requiring workers to return to the office full time.

The Detroit News

Remote work won’t die in 2025, but it will get smarter

The notion that 2025 will mark the death of remote work is unfounded. Ultimately, remote work is not a passing trend but a …

Business Insider

If you want to work remotely this year, you might have to move jobs

Remote jobs aren’t as easy to find as they were, especially as some large employers call workers back to the office.

The Wall Street Journal

Remote Work’s Persistence Helps Keep Housing Prices High Outside Big Cities

Meanwhile, continued soft work-space demand and high interest rates are hurting office landlords and banks with …