Tag Archives: Remote-work

I and many others have said this so many times you’re all doubtless tired of hearing it but it still hasn’t sunk in. People do not want to and will not return to yesterday’s work environment. In particular, they are … Continue reading →

With the COVID-19 pandemic winding down, many companies have started planing for getting their workers back into the office. They are, if you’ll forgive the hackneyed cliché, like dinosaurs after the meteor hit wondering how to get things back to … Continue reading →

It’s no secret that many middle managers recognize the existential risk that working from home represents to their jobs. It’s no surprise, therefore, that they are doing everything they can to put an end to it. According to an article … Continue reading →

The Journal of Public Economics has an interesting paper by Jonathan I. Dingel and Brent Neiman on How many jobs can be done at home. The TL;DR is that they looked at broad job categories and by using surveys on … Continue reading →

ABC in Australia has a provocative article that makes the (obvious) case that it’s easier to start remote work than it is to end it. Remote work seems custom made for the tech industry and, indeed, they were among the … Continue reading →

Time—I know, I know—has an article on the Great Resignation and in particular how young people are quitting their jobs. In some respects, the article is the usual Time silliness but it does make several interesting points. There appears to … Continue reading →

Via Paul Graham, he have this: This looks like a permanent shift, and a really big one too. From 30% to almost 80% just like that. A change on this scale is bound to have all sorts of interesting consequences. … Continue reading →

In response to my post A Broken Way of Working, Perry Metzger left a comment pointing me at a podcast about the first remote developer. That would be Paul Lutus, who, among other things, wrote Apple Writer for the Apple … Continue reading →

I’ve written several times about the future of work and my fascination with what used to be called digital nomads. The idea of remote work has become so common that the term “digital nomad” no longer makes sense and there … Continue reading →