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The Guardian

Does your boss have the right to time your bathroom breaks when you work from home?

For remote work arrangements to be successful, managers and employees need to meet somewhere in the middle.

The Wall Street Journal

More Big Companies Bet They Can Still Grow Without Hiring

It is the corporate gamble of the moment: Can you run a company, increasing sales and juicing profits, without adding people? …

HR Drive

Remote work drives ‘remarkable’ employment surge for workers with disabilities

Remote and flexible work have driven a “remarkable” surge in workforce participation among individuals with disabilities, …

Fast Company

Remote work is shaped by geopolitics, not technology

Increasingly, geopolitics, rather than technology, is shaping who works, the location of work, and the type of work we get to …

The Conversation

Remote work reduced gender discrimination — returning to the office may change that

The results were striking. Women were significantly more likely to experience everyday gender discrimination when working …

Reddit

The beach is an objectively bad place to work

Almost every article on working as a digital nomad uses the cliche laptop on the beach shot as its main image. I suppose it’s …

BBC

The last European train that travels by sea

Italy’s sleeper from Milan to Sicily ends with a rare rail-ferry crossing that’s threatened by a new mega bridge. …

Reuters

Australian banker wins right to work from home every day

An Australian retail bank employee has been granted the right to work from home all the time by the country’s labour …

David Dodda

How I Almost Got Hacked By A 'Job Interview'

I was 30 seconds away from running malware on my machine.

The attack vector? A fake coding interview from a …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #298

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

Computerworld

How to make workers happier with less pay

This research suggests that, in theory, the price of four office worker salaries buys five remote workers. (In practice, …

New York Post

Manager’s email reveals ‘insane’ 5 minute rule, bathroom policy for remote workers

“We have the 5 minute rule, I just wanted to check in to make sure everything is okay and to remind you of our policy,” the …

EurekAlert!

Researchers develop new indicators to detect loneliness risk in remote work

By analyzing workplace chat data, the study examines employees’ online activity and social connectedness, helping …

Reddit

The country that surprised you the most? Good or bad

What was the country you nomaded in that surprised you the most?

It could be that you expected the locals to be unfriendly …

Institute for Family Studies

The Flexibility Trap: Remote Work’s Hidden Toll on Young Adults

As we embrace the convenience of remote work, we must also count its cost—not just in economic terms, but in human terms. The …

ARTnews

Three Years After Trial Launch, Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent

Several years after launching a trial, Ireland is set to make its basic income for artists program permanent starting in …

CNBC

76% of American workers say they’d look for a new job if forced to work fully in person, survey finds

A growing number of workers are primed to leave their jobs if their companies require them to return to office, a new report …

CNBC

Uber will offer gig work like AI data labeling to drivers while not on the road

Uber plans to offer drivers and couriers in the U.S. ways to make money through the company’s app when they’re not ferrying …

Yahoo Life

World’s top 10 countries for digital nomads revealed - and seven are in Europe

Europe is leading the way for remote workers, as the digital nomad lifestyle continues to gain traction.

TechRepublic

Google Cracks Down on Remote Work, Signaling the End of Big Tech’s Flex Experiment

Google adds more restrictions to its popular ‘Work-From-Anywhere’ policy, which will now count one work-from-home day as a …

The Wall Street Journal

How Much Pay Will Workers Sacrifice for Remote Work?

As more tech companies tighten their return-to-office policies, a new study suggests that many job applicants are willing to …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #298

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

Jeremy Maluf

Indefinite Backpack Travel

In 2015 I got rid of everything I owned that didn’t fit in a laptop backpack, and I’ve been living at this level of …

The Wall Street Journal

Inside the Bank Where Almost Every Employee Is a Gig Worker

At Standard Chartered, a ‘talent marketplace’ lets workers take on in-house ‘gigs’ to smooth the way for AI adoption. And the …

Cornell Chronicle

A lifetime of social ties adds up to healthy aging

The cumulative effect of social advantages across a lifetime – from parental warmth in childhood to friendship, community …

The Register

Managers are throwing entry-level workers under the bus in race to adopt AI

Does it work? Inconclusive. Still, 55% of business leaders say that adopting AI is worth the impact on workers.