Remote Work

Bloomberg

What Happened When the Office Came Home

Since coronavirus lockdowns forced workers to take their jobs home, the home office has once again become a much-coveted …

Ambition & Balance - by Doist

How Remote Teams Win With Retention

Doist’s Head of Marketing on how building a culture of trust, calm, and flexibility has led to the company’s 98% …

Quartz

Do you have the right personality traits for remote work?

As remote work evolves into a long-term reality, our discussions about it need to move beyond the deployment of digital …

Forbes

Estonia Woos Remote Workers With A Digital Nomad Visa

The Baltic country and EU member is the latest in a handful of countries to create a so-called “digital nomad …

The New York Times

What If Working From Home Goes on … Forever?

Miserable as it can often be, remote work is surprisingly productive — leading many employers to wonder if they’ll ever …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #117

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 31 new remote jobs, a feature on Frontity and the week’s top remote work …

Business Insider

Companies are using webcams to monitor employees working from home

Employees at home are being photographed every 5 minutes by an always-on video service to ensure they’re actually …

The Wall Street Journal

I've Worked From Home for 22 Years. Here's What I've Learned.

The rules change when you move from an office to your spare room. Here’s how to be both productive and healthy.

Medium

DIY device for video conferencing that achieves eye contact.

In a video conference the other day, I found myself talking into the lens of the webcam.

Marker

Now Is a Great Time for Your Company to Cancel Fridays

By the end of the pandemic workweek, it makes sense to assume that many employees are burning out. A lack of control over …

DEV

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 #118

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.

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. …

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 …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #122

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

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.

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 …

The Guardian

Working from home has a long history – be careful what you wish for not wanting to go back to the office

Many of us regard the prospect of returning to a centralised workplace with a mixture of ambivalence and dread.