Remote Work

Leading from afar

Onboarding remote new hires asynchronously w/ Andrew Gobran

Onboarding a new hire can be challenging. Companies are now doing it remotely which requires a redesign to the onboarding …

Okay

What Remote Work Really Does To Your Engineering Productivity

Many companies have unwittingly incorporated common remote work assumptions that will lead them to lower productivity levels, …

TechCrunch

Passive collaboration is essential to remote work's long-term success

Technology like high-quality video conferencing and the cloud have been integral in making remote work possible. But we …

wrkfrce

What to Expect from the Future of Work According to an Oracle of Remote Work

This is about more than freeing well-paid knowledge workers in Silicon Valley, London, and New York to live more sustainably. …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #190

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 43 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

CNN

The pandemic forced a massive remote-work experiment. Now comes the hard part

It’s been one year since Covid-19 was declared a pandemic and businesses started closing their offices. Millions of …

Bloomberg Businessweek

Sick Days Don't Look So Good Now That You Can Work From Home

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, remote work had started to chip away at sick days. Slack messages saying “I’ve …

NPR

Workers Are Moving First, Asking Questions Later. What Happens When Offices Reopen?

Companies will need to be careful how heavy-handed they are in ordering workers back to their cubicles. “The good news …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #199

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 44 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

The Startup

4 Practical Ways to Avoid Zoom Fatigue

I’ve been trying to figure out why, exactly, I’m so drained at the end of every Zoom meeting — and now we know. A …

Elad Blog

Back To The Office

There are 3 future models for work, with lots of gray area in between. Each company will chose their own model from below. I …

André Jonas

Remote Work Interviews, Part I: Applying

In the following 2 months I’ve applied to remote positions with over 10 companies hiring remotely such as 1Password, …

Skift

Digital Nomad Visas May End Up Being a Bureaucratic Hell for Big Companies

There’s momentum building to make remote work a reality at some of the more progressive multinational companies, but …

Basecamp

The Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication

The how, where, why, and when we communicate. Long form asynchronous? Real-time chat? In-person? Video? Verbal? Written? Via …

Another Podcast

Who's in the office? Notes on a year of remote work.

We left the office a year ago and haven’t been back, but now we’re starting to plan a return. What will surprise …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #194

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 48 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Jumpstart

Asynchronous communication for meaningful decisions, fair evaluations and fast learning

Not a week goes by and another company publishes its commitment to embrace post-pandemic remote work.

The overwhelming answer …

Insider

Zillow is adopting a hybrid model of work, but its CEO says it's trying to prevent one major downside: a 'two-class system' where those who come into the office are viewed as better employees

What Barton is alluding to is that idea that employees who choose to report to the office either some of the time or …

Insider

Lead urbanism expert Richard Florida's response on how big cities will thrive during the new era of remote work

One of the great ironies of the pandemic is that it fundamentally changes the game of economic development from chasing …

NBER

Housing Consumption and the Cost of Remote Work

Prior to the pandemic, the expenditure share on housing was more than seven percent higher for remote households compared to …

BBC

How your space shapes the way you view remote work

The quality of your workspace shapes your work-from-home experience – so perceptions on whether remote work is succeeding …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #191

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 46 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

George Blackshaw

"Location-Based Pay" - Who Are You to Complain?

Should remote workers have their pay reduced if they move somewhere cheap? It’s a popular debate as COVID ravages the …

Increment

Ask an expert: How can engineers ace their remote job interviews?

Best practices for crafting your resume, doing your research, and—hopefully—landing the job.

Spotify

Distributed-First Is the Future of Work at Spotify

Today, Spotify is proud to introduce Work From Anywhere (WFA), a new way of collaborating that allows Spotifiers to work from …

Rado's Blog

Measuring the output of remote teams

“Are people working” is the wrong question. The right question is, “are we delivering” and “are …

Levels

How Levels Does Meetings

Since we don’t have an office and can’t rely on everyone being in the same place at the same time, we tend to …

Reset Work

How to succeed with remote and hybrid work

Almost a year later, what do we really know about how to manage remote work better? And how can we best prepare for the …

Inc.

The Top 5 Things 2020 Taught Us About Remote Work

Whatever the future of work holds, use the lessons of the past year to get smarter about how you work and manage employees …