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Motherboard

U.S. Airports No Longer Have to Build Their Own Terrible Trains

The byzantine bureaucratic rule that made useful airport connections to mass transit difficult is finally gone. Its legacy …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #202

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

Harvard Business Review

How to Be Funny at Work

Research shows that teams that laugh together are more engaged and creative. So how do we bring more humor into the …

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 …

The New York Times

Reddit Is America's Unofficial Unemployment Hotline

As hiring stalls and the economy shows signs of slowing again, the continued popularity of r/Unemployment underscores how the …

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 …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #202

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

The Verge

Salesforce declares the 9-to-5 workday dead, will let some employees work remotely from now on

Cloud computing company Salesforce is joining other Silicon Valley tech giants in announcing a substantial shift in how it …

Temporary heresy

Talent is largely a myth

With the amount of conversations, conference talks and hype going on around talent, you would expect people will have an …

Reuters

Managing your boss: adjusting to narcissists, 'ghosts,' gaslighters

Most people think of managing as a top-down process, but you also “manage” your boss, whether you realize it or …

Shin Kim

Shift to Remote Work Based on 7,000+ Hacker News Job Posts

Indeed it sure feels like everyone is leaning into remote work. But how is it backed up by data? Can we quantify the remote …

Hacker News

Team fun event ideas during WFH?

Can y’all share any team fun event ideas that have worked well for you during the WFH/pandemic period? My folks miss …

Computerworld

Remote work 2.0 — when WFH really means 'work from anywhere'

Many companies have embraced a work-from-home model, but most aren’t prepared for what comes next. Here’s what to …

BBC

The computers rejecting your job application

I wondered: is it fair for a computer alone to accept or reject your job application?

Welcome to the fast-growing world of AI …

Thinking Through

Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar

Swiss-cheese calendar causes a massive amount of context-switch between different work priorities. By the time one meeting …

The Wall Street Journal

The New Silicon Valley Perks: Child Care, Financial Planning and Therapy

Instead of using food and foosball tables to keep workers at the office as long as possible, tech companies now seek to offer …

Buffer

The 2021 State of Remote Work

Top insights and data from one of the largest remote work reports.

Shin Kim

Why Remote Friendly Won't Do

In 2021, as founders look to guide their onsite team back to the office while blending them with the permanent remote team, …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #202

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

Hacker News

Remote workers in a non-tech city, what's your experience?

I’m a graduating as a software engineer in a city with a limited number of tech jobs. Due to divorce + kids living in …

Bloomberg

Don't Give Up on Remote Work, Even If You Hate It

Some form of location flexibility is probably here to stay. So it’s worth the effort to find a way to work from home …

The Atlantic

Superstar Cities Are in Trouble

The past year has offered a glimpse of the nowhere-everywhere future of work, and it isn’t optimistic for big cities.

Vice

Gig Workers Have Nowhere to Pee

There’s a reason that gig workers consistently have difficulty getting bathroom access whether its in restaurants, …

Fast Company

Why employers might not offer remote work options to junior staff

As offices reopen, employers are considering the needs of early-career employees, many of whom prefer working in person.