Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding From Anywhere
by Tsedal Neeley · 14 Oct 2021 · 223pp · 60,936 words
to increase productivity when working remotely. Let’s first briefly review our understanding of productivity. Companies and scholars have been studying the efficacy of modern remote work for nearly three decades. By modern, I mean virtual professional engagements that are enabled by digital tools (not the distributed work of the late 1600s
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when working from home. Even for workers whose jobs were more interactive, the researchers found no negative correlations between remote work and job performance. In other words, remote work doesn’t significantly hurt job performance in any type of work. For some job features, performance is better with more extensive virtual
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, many people may opt for a hybrid version of working remotely from home and commuting into the office. As AppFolio’s transition into remote work illustrates, agile methods and remote work are not incompatible despite what the original doctrine may assert. In many ways, agile teams can maintain the spirit of the Manifesto while
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’ve found that teams that had previously established individual norms for communication or other ways of working together were well-primed for the transition to remote work. For example, the members of one agile team were accustomed to vocalizing individual preferences about what to do when wearing headphones. One team member
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Clive Thompson, “What If Working from Home Goes on . . . Forever?,” New York Times, June 9, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/09/magazine/remote-work-covid.html. millennials had intentions to leave companies: “The Deloitte Global Millennial Survey 2020,” Deloitte, June 2020, https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/about
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to enhance productivity of dispersed teams, and on the psychological fundamentals of trust and emotional engagement. Today we do not know what the endgame of remote working will be, but we should definitely read Neeley’s book to ensure our organizations evolve and rapidly adopt the most virtuous models.” —Vittorio Colao,
Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
by Zoë Schiffer · 13 Feb 2024 · 343pp · 92,693 words
off-limits. Agrawal needed to assume that the acquisition was moving forward regardless of Musk’s recent antics. But everything else—Musk’s political views, remote work, compensation—was fair game. Leslie Berland, Twitter’s chief marketing officer, eased Musk into the Q&A with a softball. “Why do you love Twitter
Mattering: The Secret to Building a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose
by Jennifer Breheny Wallace · 13 Jan 2026 · 206pp · 68,830 words
–38 culture of self, 66 existential, 56 fostering through trust, 52–54 work and, 182, 186–89 religion mattering in, 6 turning away from, 9 remote work, 42–43, 173, 191 Repair Café, 47–48 repetition committing to space and, 215 group formation and, 78 trust and, 52 resilience caregiver, 76 emotional
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words
network, a new city, and eventually a new country. We build the embryonic state as an open source project, we organize our internal economy around remote work, we cultivate in-person levels of civility, we simulate architecture in VR, and we create art and literature that reflects our values.”28 The numbers
Perfection
by Vincenzo Latronico · 18 Mar 2025 · 88pp · 29,578 words
see. They planned a trip to Levanzo but had to cancel due to bad sea conditions. Through all of this they continued to document their remote working life on social media. The pictures were always stunning, enticing—prickly pear groves, Camparis on red plastic beach tables, sunsets over vineyards, carved tufa limestone
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
by Liz Pelly · 7 Jan 2025 · 293pp · 104,461 words
’s current benefits with those required by a standard collective bargaining agreement, implying that the latter could take away certain protections around pay, time off, remote work, and parental leave. Sveriges Ingenjörer, which had been helping Spotify workers in their fight for a collective agreement, offered a response debunking the pamphlet, line
Pro Git
by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub · 12 Nov 2014 · 549pp · 134,988 words
. Also, as long as you stay out of contact with your origin server, your origin/master pointer doesn’t move. Figure 3-23. Local and remote work can diverge To synchronize your work, you run a git fetch origin command. This command looks up which server “origin” is (in this case, it
Java: The Good Parts
by Jim Waldo · 193pp · 31,998 words
in a separate thread while the StatReporterImpl object does something else. We will make this class extend the base class Thread, and do all the remote work that we had been doing in the StatReporterImpl object. The class looks something like: /** * A private inner class that can be used to obtain the
The Year Without Pants: Wordpress.com and the Future of Work
by Scott Berkun · 9 Sep 2013 · 361pp · 76,849 words
or a boss recognizing something different in their behavior unless it was visible in how they expressed themselves through the narrower, text-dominant channels of remote work. Some of this might not matter or might be a boon. A coworker with body odor or who plays music too loud while working are
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Automattic, GitHub has always been a fully distributed company, naturally reaching many of the same conclusions as Automattic about autonomy, empowerment, and trust. Outsiders assume remote work means working from home, but that's an important inaccuracy. The true directive is that employees can locate themselves wherever they want. You could work
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Of the 524 who responded, 338 already worked from home. This was not a surprise, since many of my blog readers work in technology where remote work is common. Of the 341 who currently worked in a traditional office, 64 percent said they'd like to give working from home a try
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'm confident we could do great work from thousands of miles away. Notes 1 Mayer's policy on remote work is discussed here: http://gigaom.com/2013/02/25/why-marissa-mayers-ban-on-remote-working-at-yahoo-could-backfire-badly/. 2 “Coralling the Yahoos,” March 2, 2013, Economist, references a study conducted by
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bar, where rumor had it that basic office supplies were stashed and found a single blue pen but no eraser. Automattic had great tools for remote work, but working in person at headquarters was like being stranded on a desert island. Yet it made us laugh, which always helps, and we got
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distributed nature of the company was never a bargaining plan: the costs of sending employees to team meet-ups balanced out any financial advantages of remote work. But regardless of finances, Automatticians recognized they had more freedom over their time than the rest of the working world, perhaps the most important compensation
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meeting; hardest work at end of; incremental thinking about; lack of support for large Publicize feature Q Quality assurance R Raymond, Eric The Reader Refactoring Remote work. See Working remotely Remy, Martin Ressler, Cari Results: culture emphasizing; judgment of ability determined by Results Only Work Environment (ROWE) Retreats, contrasted to Automattic company
How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic
by Michael Geier · 6 Jan 2011 · 336pp · 163,867 words
LCD TV that refuses to respond to its remote control. It functions fine with the front-panel buttons, but the remote does nothing. Is the remote working? How can we tell? If only we could see infrared light! Got a camcorder or a digital camera? Those can see infrared. Even though they
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LED lights up when you press a button and stops when you let go, you can assume it is working properly. In this case, the remote works. So, why can’t the TV see it? Something in its remote receiver circuitry is out, and we’re going to hunt that problem down
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