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,
Reactive Messaging Patterns With the Actor Model: Applications and Integration in Scala and Akka
by Vaughn Vernon · 16 Aug 2015
is both a LocalActorRef and a RemoteActorRef, but you only need to know about and use the ActorRef abstraction. With this basic understanding of how remoting works, let’s consider two ways to use remoting. • Remote creation: An actor on your local system creates a child actor on a remote system, as
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
Travel While You Work: The Ultimate Guide to Running a Business From Anywhere
by Mish Slade · 13 Aug 2015 · 288pp · 66,996 words
fashion) but you were still highly constrained by speed and reliability – e.g. 56k modems. It was flaky and unprofessional. Big consultancy companies eventually made remote working possible but then made life difficult again by having laptops with Windows Vista – so I often spent a large chunk of my day on the
The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work
by Richard Baldwin · 10 Jan 2019 · 301pp · 89,076 words
; they have spent their entire working careers as freelancers. Among baby boomers, it is rather less common. Another factor that is accelerating the trend toward remote work is the way US and European companies are reorganizing themselves to accommodate telecommuting workers. The Dissolving Office Traditional offices had all the workers and bosses
Mastering Ansible
by Jesse Keating
we've used heavily in this book to print content. Creating a custom action plugin is useful when trying to accomplish both local work and remote work in the same task. [ 198 ] Chapter 8 Distributing plugins Much like distributing custom modules, there are standard places to store custom plugins alongside playbooks that
Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook
by Michael Lopp · 20 Jul 2010 · 336pp · 88,320 words
's easy changes when team members leave, A Matter of Perspective toxic coworkers, Big Fat Toxic Assumptions Your People, Your People reliability, as remote working skill, Are they self-directed? remote, working, The Pond repetition in game play, Discovery: From Confusion to Control repetitive motion, removing, My Tools Do Not Care Where My Work
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
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
by Timothy Ferriss · 1 Jan 2007 · 426pp · 105,423 words
increased productivity is completely different. First, the employee. The employee is increasing productivity to increase negotiating leverage for two simultaneous objectives: pay raises and a remote working arrangement. Recall that, as indicated in the first chapter of this book, the general process of joining the New Rich is D-E-A-L
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an employee, this chapter will increase your value and make it more painful for the company to fire you than to grant raises and a remote working agreement. That is your goal. Once the latter is accomplished, you can drop hours without bureaucratic interference and use the resultant free time to fulfill
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between 9–9 ET. 3. Find the name, e-mail, and phone (phone is least important) of workers in the U.S. who have negotiated remote work agreements (telecommuting) despite resistant bosses. Those who have traveled outside the U.S. are ideal. Other keywords could include “teleworking” and “telecommuting.” The important factor
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Bosses for Beer: An Oktoberfest Case Study To create the proper leverage to be unshackled, we’ll do two things: demonstrate the business benefit of remote working and make it too expensive or excruciating to refuse a request for it. Remember Sherwood? His French shirts are beginning to move and he is
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he quits. Step 2: Prove Increased Output Offsite Second, he calls in sick the next Tuesday and Wednesday, July 18 and 19, to showcase his remote working productivity.60 He decides to call in sick between Tuesday and Thursday for two reasons: It looks less like a lie for a three-day
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Third, Sherwood creates a bullet-point list of how much more he achieved outside the office with explanations. He realizes that he needs to present remote working as a good business decision and not a personal perk. The quantifiable end result was three more designs per day than his usual average and
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to ask for an inch and turn it into a foot without setting off panic alarms. Second, it is a good idea to hone your remote-working abilities—rehearse a bit—before shooting for the big time, as it decreases the likelihood of crises and screwups that will get remote rights revoked
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://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2008/prod_020508.html. —Contributed by RAINA 58. If you’re an entrepreneur, don’t skip this chapter. This introduction to remote working tools and tactics is integral to the international pieces of the puzzle that follow. 59. This verb is used by Japanese women as well, even
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setting short-term and long-term goals. I bought a notebook to track my monthly goals and tasks. I did lots of research on potential remote working situations and I started telling my close friends and family about my new plans. Everyone that I told thought it was just an idea and
The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future
by Julia Hobsbawm · 11 Apr 2022 · 172pp · 50,777 words
everything from great coffee and a place to shower to superfast broadband. Dave Eisenberg, the property analyst, says that the benefits of not commuting and remote working may be outweighed by the unique asset of a non-home environment from which to work: In relative terms of the cost of people, especially
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could work like that, not in a city, avoiding the commute.’ Now it’s becoming normal, you don’t have to disguise hybrid working or remote working or pass it off as something which needs excusing. It’s the commute which needs a serious justification now. The most obvious result of the
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Policy and Training showed that over a third of women and men were anxious about ‘the ambiguity of work and time off’ which teleworking and remote working represented. Anxiety is increasing and not decreasing. Too much choice, too much transition into the Nowhere Office may feel too much for some people, and
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practice it requires a complete change in the way we work. The combination of technology, generational shifts and identity politics plus the pandemic experience of remote working means that the old singular identity of the corporation has shattered. And it is not just the corporation but the whole way we think about
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as our own in-house portal. I work and study from home. As a Gen Zer, my ultimate goal is to be a digital nomad. Remote working gives me freedom to travel, explore as well as save time and money making trips to the office. Learners want the freedom to work remotely
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