Tag Archives: Remote-work

It can be argued that COVID-19 has forever changed the way we work and the nature of the employer/employee relationship. Many managers stuck in the previous mindset are now struggling to justify their demands that workers return to the office. … Continue reading →

I have, for many, many years, been fascinated with the idea of remote work. Since Mike Elgan wrote about the New Bedouins in 2007 I yearned to be part of the revolution. Now, of course, due to COVID-19 it’s the … Continue reading →

COVID-19 has dramatically reset worker expectations. Prepandemic, most people just assumed being in an office was part of having a job. Now, however, those workers have seen how well working from home works—especially for them—and many of them say they’ll … Continue reading →

Ed Zitron has a long Substack essay on why bosses hate remote work. The article, The Work-From-Home Future Is Destroying Bosses’ Brains, posits that it’s all about control but probably not for the reasons you’d expect. The proximate fear is … Continue reading →

There’s been a great deal of speculation during the pandemic about how the work environment will change as a result of the large scale working from home that COVID-19 required. Some pundits said that work would be changed forever; others … Continue reading →

I use Backblaze to backup my work. If you don’t have a backup service of some sort, you’re just an accident away from disaster. My recent debacle with my laptop illustrates the point nicely. Without backups I would have lost … Continue reading →

Irreal readers know that I’ve been fascinated with remote work for a long time and consider it a good thing for most people and the companies they work for. COVID-19 has accelerated the trend as many companies—and their employees—discover that … Continue reading →

Gitlab has a report of a survey they did on remote work. It an interesting survey that includes a wide range of occupations where the work product is some sort of digital output. The report gives a nice summary of … Continue reading →

I’ve been an advocate of remote work from well before it became popular and widespread. I’d always been aware of the lucky, tiny, minority who could work from home but it wasn’t until I read Mike Elgan’s 2007 article on … Continue reading →

Because the COVID-19 crisis has caused a large uptick of the number of people working from home, I’m going to try to write a bit more about effective strategies for doing that. What that means is that as I find … Continue reading →