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Consequences of working from home.

This seems a reasonable alternative alternative to remote-only, office-only and hybrid approaches.

A contrarian take on remote work

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Claro. Las empresas buscan maximizar a como de lugar. He ahí donde son antagonistas con los empleados, no por decisión de éstos.

Great points here! How many of our experiments with hybrid online-F2F experiences failed fundamentally because of bad design? "No boundaries" is not a design, and "all things to all people" is not inclusion.

Enormously important. Thought exercise: who is left out of your "seamless" interactions because of design factors like space and time? (And that's before we even get into the questions of for whom a community is cultivated.)

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This is the tough bit. Working fully remote for two organizations now, I find it is important to have in-person time with colleagues—meetings, meals, relaxation—to build relationships that can weather rough patches when people aren't face-to-face. In addition to communication plans for remote and hybrid, leaders need to recognize that humans are social creatures and almost all will benefit from having relationship-building time.

Professor Lucy Easthope. (2021, October 20). WFH really is only for a very privileged few now. Not sure how that can stay a “thing” as an NPI. Too many harms being done by a fractured society where people are thriving by getting other people to bring them stuff/ make them things/ look after their family members for them [Tweet]. @LucyGoBag. https://twitter.com/LucyGoBag/status/1450842213613772802

Global lockdown due to Covid-19 made companies extensively shift to working from home. Apparently, telecommuting integration turns out to be deeper than we all expected.

It is clear now that online work from home is going to be the “new normal” in 2021 and beyond. As such, to stay on track, you need to keep your eye on upcoming changes.

In this article, we collected the main remote work trends to help you better adapt to the post-pandemic era. Here, you will also learn the key reasons why remote working is the future.

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make sure there is space during standup for chit-chat.

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As we've been adjusting to the pandemic and going remote, I have been thinking about the differences between

• [[remote only]]
• [[remote first]]
• [[remote friendly]]

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There is lots that gets missed from the chance encounters of in-person interactions.

I've found this to be a challenge when onboarding at a new company.

Many of the ways we happen to meet people in a normal office environment can go away, the chance encounters need to become intentional ones.

It can feel awkward reaching out to someone over slack to ask for something if you have never had any kind of casual conversation or interaction with them before.

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The list of remote jobs is fantastic.

Tips for remote workers and remote-friendly companies.<br> Andy Mention https://twitter.com/amention<br> http://andymention.com/remote-tooling/

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