Remote Work

Bloomberg

Work Here! Tourist-Starved Caribbean Woos Homebound Workers

With traditional tourism hammered by the pandemic and many in Europe and North America working from home amid shorter days …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #139

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 34 new remote jobs, a feature on Confrere and the week’s top remote work …

BBC

Deutsche Bank: Tax home workers 'to help pay those who cannot'

Economists at Deutsche Bank suggest a tax of 5% of a worker’s salary if they choose to work from home.

The tax would be …

Saurabh Khawase

When Remote Work doesn't cut it

The challenges surrounding remote work outweigh it’s promises. Not every company is a FAANG, and companies will …

blogTO

Toronto is drastically cutting office space as remote work could become permanent

…the City surveyed staff, and found that 95 per cent of those involved in the survey would like to continue working …

The Startup

Why Working from Home Is Here to Stay

But, before I go on and on about all the reasons I love work from home and why I think it’s the best thing since sliced …

Harvard University

'Working' Remotely? Selection, Treatment, and Market Provision of Remote Work

We find remote work improves individual productivity but worsens worker selection. Calls per hour rose sharply by 7% when …

Medium

We Need a Remote Work Commute

It turns out that converting that time into something beneficial has been challenging. And, the longer I go commute-less, the …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #138

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

Upvoted – The official Reddit blog

Evolving Reddit's Workforce

To help drive the idea home (pun intended), we’ve reimagined our approach to compensation in the US. To support …

Christian Science Monitor

For those with disabilities, shift to remote work has opened doors

The COVID-19 pandemic has created many challenges, but disability advocates are welcoming one societal shift that has huge …

Harvard Business Review

Our Work-from-Anywhere Future

Individuals, teams, entire workforces, can perform well while being entirely distributed—and they have. So now we face new …

Know Your Team

How to build team morale remotely

Here, I’ll share some specific practices for how to build team morale remotely, based on research from the past 20 …

Sidewalk Labs

City of the Future: Remote Work

In an era of remote work, when people can work from anywhere, where will they choose to live? And what can cities do to set …

Fast Company

I'm deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call

Can you hear me? No, but I can read you. A hearing-impaired product designer has his team experience his world and says we …

The Prof G Show

The Remote Work Revolution

On the first edition of The Prof G Show’s Geobusiness Expedition, Scott discusses the redistribution from commercial to …

Dana Jones' Software Development Blog

Making Remote Work: Part I - Building Trust With Remote Staff

Your team doesn’t owe you trust simply by virtue of you being their manager. They owe you respect, as we all owe each …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #137

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 33 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Business Insider

Automation is projected to erase 85 million global jobs by 2025

In the near term, we believe the shift to remote work will be an even bigger driver of job displacement than automation. When …

Medium

How to Escape to the Countryside and Work Remote

If you are a remote worker and are ready to escape to the countryside, here’s my list of top things to consider based …

Reuters

Permanently remote workers seen doubling in 2021 due to pandemic productivity: survey

The percentage of workers around the world that is permanently working from home is expected to double in 2021 as …

Owl Labs

State of Remote Work 2020

How employees across the US feel about working remotely in a post-COVID-19 world, their new workplace expectations and what …

The Wall Street Journal

Remote Work Isn't Just for White-Collar Jobs Anymore

Just as Slack, Zoom and countless other tools have made it possible for the world’s white-collar workers to work from …

Ness Labs

Sustainability over speed: adopting asynchronous communication

With more people working from home, asynchronous communication will become key to being productive while keeping our sanity. …

SAPIENS

Why Do Virtual Meetings Feel So Weird?

Even as online meetings become more common, they can’t always capture the nuances of nonverbal communication and …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #136

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 32 new remote jobs, a feature on Mixmax and the week’s top remote work …

ZDNet

Microsoft's CEO is tired of working from home and he's not alone

Satya Nadella worries that staring into a screen lulls you into a stupor and casual interactions just don’t happen …

Travel + Leisure

Dubai's New Remote Work Visa Program Will Allow People to Live in the Emirate for One Year

Dubai is now on the growing list of places offering new programs to lure remote workers.

Erin Blaskie

The Transactional Nature of Remote Work & How It's Killing Workplace Culture

Today’s remote work environment is not remote-work-done-well.

This is …