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The Conversation

Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century?

A study by Harvard and New York University economists finds that people working from home spend around 48 minutes more time …

Ben Frederickson

Why GitHub Won't Help You With Hiring

This post is about why GitHub profiles just aren’t all that useful when looking to hire developers.

The Atlantic

Get Ready for the Great Urban Comeback

The 21st-century city is the child of catastrophe. The comforts and infrastructure we take for granted were born of age-old …

Haseeb Qureshi

Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer

So here’s my guide to negotiation. It’s going to be split into two parts: this first part will be about …

BBC

Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects

The Wall Street Journal newspaper asked Mr Hastings if he had seen any benefits from staff working from home.

“No. I …

The New York Times

When Did the Suburbs Get so LOUD?

You have just discovered a reality about suburban life: It’s not so quiet.

Overcoming Bias

Our Brave New Merged World

I’ve written about how remote work can, for many industries, allow the merging of many local markets into fewer much …

The Conversation

Remote-work visas will shape the future of work, travel and citizenship

COVID-19 has upended other old certainties. Before the pandemic, digital nomads would tell me that they despised being …

Oliver Emberton

The problem isn't that life is unfair – it's your broken idea of fairness

The truth is, life is just playing by different rules.

The real rules are there. They actually make sense. But they’re …

Scientific American

Unlimited Information Is Transforming Society

Technology is blurring the lines between consumers and producers, amateurs and professionals, and laypeople and experts. …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #132

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

The New York Times

College Is Everywhere Now

But some students are pursuing a third option: Renting giant houses with friends — sometimes in far-flung locales — and doing …

Ars Technica

Going all-in on remote work: The technical and cultural changes

For every business with leaders whose heads are stuck in the if-I-can’t-see-you-you-ain’t-working past, there …

San Francisco Chronicle

Pinterest cancels huge SF office lease in unbuilt project, citing work-from-home shift

The company will instead continue leasing four existing San Francisco offices, including 651 Brannan St., and pay a one-time …

The Japan Times

Post-pandemic, Japan firms see office as space to foster innovation

They said that offices have to be more than merely a workplace for employees to just show up, adding that they should offer …

Marker

Remote Work Is Killing the Hidden Trillion-Dollar Office Economy

From airlines to Starbucks, a massive part of our economy hinges on white-collar workers returning to the office.

Skift

Struggling Tourist Destinations Pitch Themselves to New Digital Nomads as Remote Work Locales

The pandemic may accelerate the existing trend of digital nomads in an unexpected way — and some destinations are taking …

Simon Owens's Tech and Media Newsletter

The exact time commitment it takes to run a paid newsletter

like I have a pretty good handle on my workflow and can provide some insight into what it takes to operate a podcast and …

Forbes

Tourism Industry Faces $1 Trillion Loss, 100 Million Jobs At Risk From Covid-19, UN Reports

A new policy brief from the United Nations outlining Covid-19’s impact on the tourism industry projects the pandemic …

OneZero

Why a Slack Backlash Is Inevitable

A reckoning for workplace chat apps like Slack and Microsoft Teams is coming; just ask the people who pay for them. As …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #128

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 31 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Business Insider

Germany is beginning a universal-basic-income trial with people getting $1,400 a month for 3 years

As part of the study, 120 people will receive €1,200, or about $1,430, each month for three years — an amount just above …

Harvard Business School Working Knowledge

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

A new study of pandemic-induced remote workers and their employers suggests that at least 16 percent will remain at-home …

Know Your Team

How to best support remote employees

You want to help as a manager — but how? Here are 8 ways to help ease stress, improve morale, and make working remotely …

Bloomberg

How to End America's Loneliness Epidemic

Making people more economically secure is the first step to ending the “intimacy apocalypse.”

Don't ask to ask, just ask

Don't ask to ask, just ask

The solution is not to ask to ask, but just to ask.

Grelock

Talent Today

In our survey, 42% of companies stated they will remain 100% remote through at least the rest of 2020, while 35% said they …

Tiffany Matthé

Being OK With Not Being Extraordinary

The internet always highlights the first place winners, the billionaires, the award-winning artists, the best-selling …

Harvard Business Review

How to Leave Work at Work

Some jobs have very clear lines between when you’re “on” and when you’re “off,” while in …