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,
We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 13 Apr 2026 · 225pp · 76,418 words
much data the world generates each year. Then we added ten major cultural changes: the legalization of same-sex marriage, the rise of streaming and remote work, greater mental health awareness, trans rights protections, and the explosion in daily digital content exposure. Each variable was normalized on a 0–1 scale, with
The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
by Sebastian Mallaby; · 30 Mar 2026 · 607pp · 161,998 words
to market. Altman’s commercial instincts, and his success in attracting money and talent, owed much to his embeddedness in Silicon Valley. The rise of remote work during the COVID-19 lockdown was said to be erasing the importance of location, but the Valley remained an innovation cluster like no other. Starting
Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
by Noam Scheiber · 6 Apr 2026 · 399pp · 120,332 words
New York Times, December 21, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/business/architects-white-collar-union.html. corporate employees protested: Emma Goldberg, “How Remote Work Connected Employees Making $19 an Hour and $80,000 a Year,” The New York Times, May 31, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31
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
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
by Bill Gates · 2 May 2022 · 406pp · 88,977 words
working. I think most people will be surprised by the pace of innovation over the next decade now that the software industry is focused on remote working scenarios. Many of the benefits of working in the same physical space—like running into people at the water cooler—can be re-created with
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a coworker just as if you’re in the same room. I’m particularly excited to see how metaverse technologies will enable more spontaneity with remote work. This is the biggest thing you lose when you’re not in the office. Working from your living room isn’t exactly conducive to having
Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy
by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake · 4 Apr 2022 · 338pp · 85,566 words
, and suggest solutions that not only allow homeowners and communities to share in the benefits of city growth but also help maximise the benefits of remote working in an intangibles-rich economy. Competition Policy. It is increasingly argued that the rise of large, dominant businesses—from tech platforms like Google to retail
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hard to build new office space and new housing in and around the most dynamic cities, like San Francisco and London. COVID-19, which enforced remote working for many people, temporarily removed some of these planning issues, but it introduced its own problems, depriving knowledge workers of the face-to-face contact
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that at least some of them feel is important for their work. Both congested cities and a haphazard shift to remote working make it harder to invest in intangibles, likely slowing down long-term investment relative to what it might have been. We examine this issue, and
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to fix them. Finally, we ask how to make the most of the changes some workers have seen as a result of COVID-19-enforced remote working. The Rise of Intangibles and the Rise of Cities The economic rise of certain cities in the past thirty years has been remarkable. During this
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example of the naive optimism of yesteryear, alongside flying cars, the paperless office, and the end of history. COVID-19 offered a new hope for remote working. With nearly half of all workers forced to stay at home in many countries, firms were faced with a compulsory experiment. Many workers and some
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employers found that remote working was not as bad as they thought. Few people missed their commute, people learned to use videoconferencing and collaboration software, and many businesses that would
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have never considered a wholesale move to remote working found that it was possible to do business without everyone in the office. FIGURE 6.1: Percentage Intending to Use Increased Home Working as a
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?” Data are employment-weighted. Source: ONS Business Insights and Conditions Survey data, reported in Haskel (2021). But the experience of home working suggests that while remote working will increase after COVID-19 lockdowns end, the office is not dead yet. A large survey of UK businesses conducted by the Office for National
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be an evolution, not a revolution, and the underlying importance of cities and clusters will not go away. Technocrats versus Politicians It seems, then, that remote working will not make cities obsolete or solve the problems of congestion and housing shortages. Let’s now turn to two ways of addressing rising demand
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will say that there’s no sign that people want it (and, in the aftermath of COVID-19, will continue to make threats about how remote working will lead to all sorts of bad economic consequences, from the offshoring of jobs to the collapse of local economies). The net result is an
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is important for politicians to be realistic in their expectations for local growth. Speeding the Death of Distance We observed earlier that the rise in remote working occasioned by COVID-19 would not make the problems of place go away, but it may help address them at the margin. Shifting some employees
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to remote working will not reverse the Triumph of the City, but it will weaken it and offer an opportunity for some left-behind places to catch up
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are doing, how can that be made to work, and what rules and norms are needed? A small number of businesses that are used to remote working have already developed such norms, but these standards are not widely known, and in any case are often tailored to the specific activities of a
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of cognitive skills, such as IQ tests, over and above education has, if anything, fallen since the turn of the century.39 The move to remote working will make soft skills even more important. Summary Cities have become more important as the economy has become more intangible. As the importance of spillovers
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Francis Fukuyama and Robert Putnam.18 In the meantime, the software industry has developed tools, practices, and working norms that make it perhaps the most remote-work-friendly high-skilled job. Perhaps people who grew up playing online video games or socialising and dating over smartphones have developed ways of communicating at
The Survival of the City: Human Flourishing in an Age of Isolation
by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler · 14 Sep 2021 · 735pp · 165,375 words
pro-entrepreneurship institutions like one-stop permitting. In the seventh chapter, we turn to the longer-term consequences of the pandemic, especially the move to remote working. For forty years, futurists like Alvin Toffler have argued that electronic interactions would make face-to-face meetings unnecessary and that would lead to massive
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jobs, working face-to-face increases productivity. Unplanned interactions in the hallways and in common spaces are often the key to progress. Just as importantly, remote working is rarely as joyful as being in the same room. Ultimately, cities will remain strong because they are places that allow us to exercise our
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has productivity been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic? There is not a single story. We noted earlier the finding of Emanuel and Harrington that remote working was associated with improved productivity in call centers. That holds up in randomized trials as well. Stanford economists Nicholas Bloom and John Roberts, along with
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colleagues in China, analyzed data from a Chinese travel agency that conducted an experiment with working at home. Among workers who were interested in remote work, the firm randomized some to work at home and some to continue coming to the office. The workers who were allowed to work from home
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have adequate workspaces at home. One quarter of Americans do not have residential broadband, and even when they do, it is often too slow for remote work. Working at home may also involve more interruptions from lonely children or other distractions. Christopher Stanton’s research found that “prior to the pandemic, remote
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as more marginal than revolutionary, and unlikely either to solve our traffic problems or lead to empty office towers. To examine the heterogeneous impact of remote working across industries, one of us (Glaeser) was part of a team that analyzed two surveys taken at the height of the pandemic. The first survey
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number of jobs in the US grew by more than seven million workers between 2016 and 2020, which suggests that even a massive shift toward remote working will be reversed by normal job growth in five to ten years. But that job growth need not happen in the same cities where workers
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makeshift” space to permit the growth of new businesses. She was right about that, although she incorrectly thought that historic preservation would promote affordability. If remote working leads old jobs to relocate, then new jobs can emerge to take their place, assuming that the city makes it easy enough to start new
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Being Done at Home During the Covid-19 Crisis?” Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington: Harrington and Emanuel, “ ‘Working’ Remotely? Selection, Treatment, and Market Provision of Remote Work.” “at the time of the transition”: Harrington and Emanuel. Paul Krugman formulated: Krugman, “Increasing Returns and Economic Geography.” “skyscrapers are constructed”: Barr, Building the Skyline
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nfs> help host <host> - set remote host name uid [<uid> [<secret-key>]] - set remote user id gid [<gid>] - set remote group id cd [<path>] - change remote working directory lcd [<path>] - change local working directory cat <filespec> - display remote file ls [-l] <filespec> - list remote directory get <filespec> - get remote files df - file
Financial Freedom: A Proven Path to All the Money You Will Ever Need
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and the greater your value to your company, the more likely your supervisor will be open to your working remotely. If you want more flexible remote-work privileges, don’t be afraid to ask. This benefit costs your employer nothing, and given the research into how work flexibility improves engagement, it may
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work out an arrangement that keeps you happy and working for the company. Work remotely and bank the extra money and extra time! Not all remote-work opportunities are equal. Most jobs that will allow you to work remotely are salaried positions, although there are some hourly jobs, like customer service or
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