Remote Work

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #298

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

Protocol

Remote work is closing the geographic pay gap

Tech companies can still save on payroll by hiring engineers in cheaper cities. But the geographic wage gap in tech is …

Governing

Remote Work Persists, Forcing Cities, Companies to Adapt

While many firms expect workers to be remote about 30 percent of the time after the pandemic, the rate has …

Recode

Tell your boss: Working from home is making you more productive

Employers are missing out by calling workers back to the office.

BRINK

Working From Anywhere: A Differentiator in the War for Talent?

In the context of talent shortage, companies are more likely to increase work flexibility to attract and retain employees, …

Fortune

Millennials call it 'quiet vacationing,' but it's really remote work gone wrong—and it's CEOs' worst nightmare

According to The Harris Poll’s Out of Office Culture Report from May surveying 1,170 employed U.S. adults, 37% of …

Bloomberg

Compensation Is Becoming an Even Bigger Headache in the Remote-Work Era

Companies try to figure out fair pay amid an uptick in relocations and a tight labor market.

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #248

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 41 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

The Async Review

How to Beat Loneliness in Remote Work

Even before the pandemic, worker loneliness was a major public health crisis. The situation today is more troubling still.

The Financial Times

I tried remote working from this subtropical island. Don't get too jealous

Are sun, surf and yoga incompatible with actual work? Cristina Criddle finds out.

Axios

Millennials drive remote work push

An overwhelming majority of Americans (77%) whose job can be done remotely say it’s important that their employer allow …

Fortune

Remote workers must not be left behind, workplace design experts warn

Managers have a lot of work to do to rethink the value of in-person work in an office and make it be about more than keeping …

BBC

The workers quitting over return-to-office policies

Employees have long threatened to walk if employers call them back into the office. Now, the dominoes are starting to fall.

FiveThirtyEight

They Never Got To WFH

But most Americans don’t have jobs in which telework is an option. There are fields where that’s not surprising: …

Twist

What the heck is asynchronous communication anyway?

Drawing on the experience of my own fully remote, async-first company, Doist, I’ll explain what asynchronous …

Reddit

What would you do if your job suddenly decided to go hybrid?

My SO is a digital nomad, and her job recently decided they’ll be going hybrid. She now has to decide to quickly find a …

BBC

How remote work could nix the sick day

Sick days used to mean resting, not working. Now, however, more employees are logging in from home as they fight illness – …

Cambridge Clarion

Computer work lying down comfortably with a home-made stand over the bed

This article reports the result of a successful personal attempt to find an arrangement of keyboard, mouse and monitor for …

Axios

Employers are allowing more remote work days

Bosses are coming around to the idea of remote work, at least for part of the week.

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #248

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 41 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Better Humans

How to Do Remote Work Well

I’ve been working remotely for 10 years and these are the habits that make it sustainable.

BBC

The countries resisting remote work

In places including the US and UK, remote work is here to stay. But that’s not necessarily the story around the world.

The Economist

Welcome to the era of the hyper-surveilled office

In the past few years, however, and especially as the pandemic has forced work from the controlled enclosure of the corporate …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #248

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 41 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Reuters

Remote work and restrictive covenant agreements

Amidst this work-from-home culture, multiple states have imposed more onerous restrictions (if not outright bans) on …

mycodingtales

Stop Pretending Your Company is Remote

The forced change to accommodate remote workflows also brought to light what I like to call “virtual offices”. …

Hacker News

WFH – will I be outsourced?

I once heard, if you can work from home you will be out sourced.

Is the WFH movement going to turn into a “they …

Nature

Why video calls are bad for brainstorming

According to new research one important skill is impacted by the restrictions of video calls: brainstorming ideas. But why is …

Airbnb

Airbnb's design for employees to live and work anywhere

In response to this trend of newfound flexibility, Airbnb today announced our approach to allow employees to live and work …