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Top PicksHand-picked articles, stories and ideas from the remote work community and beyond. KPMG Report Gives Big Thumbs Down on Long-Term Remote WorkingMatthew Parsons | Skift A revealing survey of corporate mobility teams shows that the post-pandemic legacy of remote work may not be that great after all. Remote Work Should Be (Mostly) AsynchronousSteve Glaveski | Harvard Business Review Well-meaning band-aid solutions achieve little if the toxic norms that rob knowledge workers of autonomy and control remain in place. We can help remote workers get on top of their workloads and mitigate work-life balance conflicts by moving away from hyper-responsiveness and real-time communication towards greater asynchronous communication — the type that truly gives people the freedom to decide when and where to work. How to kill the American office for goodDrew Magary | SFGATE Isn’t it weird that you grow up, break into the white collar sector, and then your primary place to go is a cubicle surrounded by random people whose greatest personality flaws and whose worst midday habits you will grow to know intimately? Why would you accept a life engineered that way if you didn’t have to? Return-to-Office Chaos Is the Best Thing to Happen to Consultants Since Y2KMatthew Boyle | Bloomberg A new breed of “experts” is here to help desperate employers navigate these uncharted waters. Too bad no one knows anything. Tulsa paid people $10k to move there and work remotely. Here’s how it worked outJared Lindzon | Fast Company Since its founding, Tulsa Remote has brought nearly 1,300 workers to town, and a new study suggests that the investment is paying off. Work in America Is Broken—Can Remote Work Save Us?Derek Thompson | The Ringer Derek talks to Anne Helen Petersen, the coauthor of Out of Work: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home, about Americans’ relationship to our jobs, work as an identity, and burnout as a policy choice. Remote work has a downside. Here’s why I want to go back to the officeMark Crowley | Fast Company Despite how popular the idea of working from home permanently has become for many people today, I’ve come to believe that working remotely full-time is detrimental to human well-being, not to mention organizational success. Without working some days each week in the office—when everyone else is there too—the harm to all of us is far greater than we might ever imagine. Here’s why. The winners and losers of remote workThe winners of remote work are skilled people in the developing world.
The losers of remote work are skill-less people in the developed world.
The media still hasn’t figured this out yet. Working remote exposed poor management and bad managersRemote work wasn’t the pandemic problem. Working remote exposed poor management and bad managers. And in classic bad manager fashion, always find someone else to blame.
#HotTakeAdvent We need to hear more of the real human stories behind why remote work is so importantWe need to hear more of the real human stories behind why remote work is so important
Mine: I missed my kids walk, laugh and talk for the first time. I went remote to see them grow up every day
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