#distributed-work — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #distributed-work, aggregated by home.social.
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“When employees know that recovery is valued rather than merely permitted, they return more focused, more engaged and better equipped to do their best work. […] these practices communicate something critical about organizational culture. They tell employees that leadership recognizes they are human beings, not simply units of output”
From de- to re-humanisation of the workplace 💪🏻😎
#Management #Leadership #DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #HybridWork #DistributedWork #FlexibleWork #Burnout
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A couple of noteworthy quotes from that article, worth while reflecting some more on:
“[…] cognitive restoration is not a luxury, but rather a prerequisite for sustained performance. Human beings are simply not able to operate at peak intensity indefinitely. Periods of recovery improve attention, creativity, motivation, decision-making and overall job performance”
#Management #Leadership #DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #HybridWork #DistributedWork #FlexibleWork #Burnout
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“What if the practices being eliminated are some of the very things helping employees remain productive in the first place?”
In the midst of the stupidity behind constantly perpetuating, to the extenuation, the "Cult of Busyness", this short piece 👉🏻 https://hrexecutive.com/as-burnout-rises-leaders-should-think-twice-before-cutting-flexibility/ is a rather refreshing read.
Does #Management / #Leadership *truly* care about their employees' overall well-being? 🤔
#DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #HybridWork #DistributedWork #FlexibleWork #Burnout
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“[…] when policies are geared toward mothers or parents, managers have worse perceptions of remote working in regard to commitments, productivity, team spirit, and promotion opportunities”
Dehumanisation of work at play? 🤔 Gosh, the lack of #empathy & understanding of #caregiving needs & wants by employers is just staggering! 😤
What a bunch of ars*h*les! 😡
#DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #HybridWork #DistributedWork #FlexibleWork #Parenthood
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Organisational Dysfunction of the Day
Out of sight, out of sync
Context: The team is fully remote. Async communication is the norm, the tools are good, and the documentation is better than it ever was in the office. Standups happen on video, retros happen on Miro, and the team ships regularly. Once or twice a year the whole team gets together for a few days. The energy is noticeably different in person: things get resolved that had been stuck for weeks, new people finally feel like they belong, and everyone goes home re-energised. And then, slowly, things drift back. On paper, everything still works. In practice, something is harder to name. Decisions that should be simple take longer. Small misunderstandings accumulate. Someone does something that puzzles the rest, and nobody quite knows how to raise it. The team is coordinating. It is not quite cohering.
OST explains: DP2 is structurally possible in a remote setting. The requirements for self-management, that the group controls its own coordination and work design, do not depend on physical presence. But the social fabric that makes those requirements liveable does not. Solomon Asch identified four conditions that must be present for communication to actually work: openness, basic psychological similarity, a mutually shared field, and trust. Remote work weakens all four. The cues we use to sense whether someone is struggling, whether a decision landed well, whether a conflict is brewing, most of them are non-verbal, ambient, and invisible over video. A co-located DP2 group builds and repairs its social fabric continuously and mostly unconsciously. A remote DP2 group has to do that work deliberately. Team gatherings help, and people feel the difference when they happen. But they are injections of social capital into a structure that depletes it continuously. They are not a substitute for the daily, informal repair work that physical proximity enables. The result is a group that is formally self-managing but socially thin. Coordination holds. Cohesion frays. Remote does not break DP2. It makes the invisible work of maintaining it visible and expensive.
#OpenSystemsTheory #SocioTechnical #OrgDesign #distributedWork
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Organisational Dysfunction of the Day
Out of sight, out of sync
Context: The team is fully remote. Async communication is the norm, the tools are good, and the documentation is better than it ever was in the office. Standups happen on video, retros happen on Miro, and the team ships regularly. Once or twice a year the whole team gets together for a few days. The energy is noticeably different in person: things get resolved that had been stuck for weeks, new people finally feel like they belong, and everyone goes home re-energised. And then, slowly, things drift back. On paper, everything still works. In practice, something is harder to name. Decisions that should be simple take longer. Small misunderstandings accumulate. Someone does something that puzzles the rest, and nobody quite knows how to raise it. The team is coordinating. It is not quite cohering.
OST explains: DP2 is structurally possible in a remote setting. The requirements for self-management, that the group controls its own coordination and work design, do not depend on physical presence. But the social fabric that makes those requirements liveable does not. Solomon Asch identified four conditions that must be present for communication to actually work: openness, basic psychological similarity, a mutually shared field, and trust. Remote work weakens all four. The cues we use to sense whether someone is struggling, whether a decision landed well, whether a conflict is brewing, most of them are non-verbal, ambient, and invisible over video. A co-located DP2 group builds and repairs its social fabric continuously and mostly unconsciously. A remote DP2 group has to do that work deliberately. Team gatherings help, and people feel the difference when they happen. But they are injections of social capital into a structure that depletes it continuously. They are not a substitute for the daily, informal repair work that physical proximity enables. The result is a group that is formally self-managing but socially thin. Coordination holds. Cohesion frays. Remote does not break DP2. It makes the invisible work of maintaining it visible and expensive.
#OpenSystemsTheory #SocioTechnical #OrgDesign #distributedWork
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“Stressful circumstances, long commutes, caregiving, disability, a toxic manager, push people to negotiate for WFH in the first place” 👉🏻 https://theworkforward.substack.com/p/did-remote-work-kill-the-gen-z-job
And, yet, all we keep hearing / reading about is how #RemoteWork killed entry-level jobs #GenZ and is making us all feel lonelier, more isolated even 😤
Gosh, the nerve! What a bunch of BS! 😡
#DistanceWorking #HybridWork #DistributedWork #FlexibleWork #Loneliness #MentalHealth
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“Stressful circumstances, long commutes, caregiving, disability, a toxic manager, push people to negotiate for WFH in the first place” 👉🏻 https://theworkforward.substack.com/p/did-remote-work-kill-the-gen-z-job
And, yet, all we keep hearing / reading about is how #RemoteWork killed entry-level jobs #GenZ and is making us all feel lonelier, more isolated even 😤
Gosh, the nerve! What a bunch of BS! 😡
#DistanceWorking #HybridWork #DistributedWork #FlexibleWork #Loneliness #MentalHealth
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“Gen Z workers love to yap—or chit chat for extended periods of time—which experts told Fortune’s Emma Burleigh likely stems from the generation’s isolation and loneliness during the pandemic”
Ah-ha! Of course, you see? It's much "easier" to gossip while on-site and get away with it than having to annotate such gossip through social, digital tools for everyone else to see it AND remember 😜👍🏻
It's all about work, work, work, right? 🤔😝
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“Gen Z workers love to yap—or chit chat for extended periods of time—which experts told Fortune’s Emma Burleigh likely stems from the generation’s isolation and loneliness during the pandemic”
Ah-ha! Of course, you see? It's much "easier" to gossip while on-site and get away with it than having to annotate such gossip through social, digital tools for everyone else to see it AND remember 😜👍🏻
It's all about work, work, work, right? 🤔😝
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"#GenZ is actually the most enthusiastic generation about working in the office and are there 3 days a week" 👉🏻 https://fortune.com/2025/05/03/gen-z-most-enthusiastic-in-person-working-return-to-office-work-from-home-wfm-hybrid/
“They say going to the office gives them the chance to learn more from coworkers and build friendships”
Of course! Except ... 👇🏻🤔
“Workers aged 35-54 reported the lowest satisfaction with being in the office, citing environmental concerns, and desires for better technology, flexibility, and food”
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"#GenZ is actually the most enthusiastic generation about working in the office and are there 3 days a week" 👉🏻 https://fortune.com/2025/05/03/gen-z-most-enthusiastic-in-person-working-return-to-office-work-from-home-wfm-hybrid/
“They say going to the office gives them the chance to learn more from coworkers and build friendships”
Of course! Except ... 👇🏻🤔
“Workers aged 35-54 reported the lowest satisfaction with being in the office, citing environmental concerns, and desires for better technology, flexibility, and food”
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[…] remote work may even be a risk factor for AI displacement, since managers who mainly interact with reports over Slack may view their work as more automatable”
See? That quote alone hints the issue is not #DistanceWorking but more along the lines of, yet again, another clear exhibit of poor #Leadership skills when managing virtual teams.
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[…] remote work may even be a risk factor for AI displacement, since managers who mainly interact with reports over Slack may view their work as more automatable”
See? That quote alone hints the issue is not #DistanceWorking but more along the lines of, yet again, another clear exhibit of poor #Leadership skills when managing virtual teams.
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"What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?" 👉🏻 https://archive.is/6f8YT
Oh, seriously? You couldn't possibly think of a better argument to whitewash #GenAI within the workplace than to blame #DistanceWorking for not hiring enough young talent, eh?
Shame on you, FT! 😡
Do better! 😤
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"What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?" 👉🏻 https://archive.is/6f8YT
Oh, seriously? You couldn't possibly think of a better argument to whitewash #GenAI within the workplace than to blame #DistanceWorking for not hiring enough young talent, eh?
Shame on you, FT! 😡
Do better! 😤
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Oooh, and if you have a serious need to discuss / work with smaller, dispersed teams on highly confidential content, or project management related tasks, they have an additional app that may well cover all of your needs:
Trustroom 😍👉🏻 https://trustroom.eu/en
#DistributedWork #SovereignByDesign #DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #BuyEuropean #PrivacyMatters #Privacy
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Oooh, and if you have a serious need to discuss / work with smaller, dispersed teams on highly confidential content, or project management related tasks, they have an additional app that may well cover all of your needs:
Trustroom 😍👉🏻 https://trustroom.eu/en
#DistributedWork #SovereignByDesign #DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #BuyEuropean #PrivacyMatters #Privacy
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Earlier today, I had a brilliant demo of another Web conf. app hosted within the EU (Germany) that could certainly rival #Zoom #MSTeams or #WebEx.
It's called Together 👉🏻 https://together.biz/. Its main value proposition is to encourage real-time contextual collaboration through co-creation of social artefacts: documents (in different signed formats), PM tasks, action-items, etc. etc.
Ideal for small teams doing #DistributedWork
#SovereignByDesign #DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #BuyEuropean
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Earlier today, I had a brilliant demo of another Web conf. app hosted within the EU (Germany) that could certainly rival #Zoom #MSTeams or #WebEx.
It's called Together 👉🏻 https://together.biz/. Its main value proposition is to encourage real-time contextual collaboration through co-creation of social artefacts: documents (in different signed formats), PM tasks, action-items, etc. etc.
Ideal for small teams doing #DistributedWork
#SovereignByDesign #DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #BuyEuropean
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“During the Corona period, we developed many systems of work from home, online meetings and video conferences, and we even became accustomed to them. Today, the demands of the times are such that if we restart these systems, it will be in the national interest. We must prioritise work from home, online conferences and virtual meetings again”
Why isn't this recommendation👆🏻happening in #Europe? 🤔
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“During the Corona period, we developed many systems of work from home, online meetings and video conferences, and we even became accustomed to them. Today, the demands of the times are such that if we restart these systems, it will be in the national interest. We must prioritise work from home, online conferences and virtual meetings again”
Why isn't this recommendation👆🏻happening in #Europe? 🤔
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"[…] if you haven’t embraced remote or hybrid working yet, the fuel price crisis could be the motivation you need to do so"
One for those at the far back 👉🏻 https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/rising-fuel-prices-are-making-return-to-office-mandates-harder-to-defend/91341154
"It can reduce pressure and financial burdens borne by your staff, and it conveys a certain level of trust from executives that employees will work in a dedicated manner for the good of the company" 👈🏻 You reckon? 🤔
And yet...? 🙄
#DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #HybridWork #DistributedWork #OilCrisis #SmartWork
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"[…] if you haven’t embraced remote or hybrid working yet, the fuel price crisis could be the motivation you need to do so"
One for those at the far back 👉🏻 https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/rising-fuel-prices-are-making-return-to-office-mandates-harder-to-defend/91341154
"It can reduce pressure and financial burdens borne by your staff, and it conveys a certain level of trust from executives that employees will work in a dedicated manner for the good of the company" 👈🏻 You reckon? 🤔
And yet...? 🙄
#DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #HybridWork #DistributedWork #OilCrisis #SmartWork
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"Leaders found that employees felt more trusted, valued, and respected when they could work from home, plus they saved a meaningful amount money on clothing and transportation" 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
"Working together, employees and leaders cocreated a new working model they called “home-centric.” The default was for people to work from home, but employees would come together for onboarding, training, and culture-building activities" 👌🏻😍
#DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #HybridWork #DistributedWork #FlexibleWork
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"Leaders found that employees felt more trusted, valued, and respected when they could work from home, plus they saved a meaningful amount money on clothing and transportation" 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
"Working together, employees and leaders cocreated a new working model they called “home-centric.” The default was for people to work from home, but employees would come together for onboarding, training, and culture-building activities" 👌🏻😍
#DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #HybridWork #DistributedWork #FlexibleWork
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"Most companies treat employees as a cost to be managed rather than customers who choose how much of their personal energy and effort to bring to work every day"
If only managers / leaders would pay more attention to employees' needs & wants AND try to meet them along the way, right?
This article 👉🏻 https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/what-the-return-to-office-debate-misses-employees-are-customers/ is quite an interesting read on shaping up the #EmployeeExperience at the workplace.
#DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #HybridWork #DistributedWork #FlexibleWork #PeopleCentric
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"Most companies treat employees as a cost to be managed rather than customers who choose how much of their personal energy and effort to bring to work every day"
If only managers / leaders would pay more attention to employees' needs & wants AND try to meet them along the way, right?
This article 👉🏻 https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/what-the-return-to-office-debate-misses-employees-are-customers/ is quite an interesting read on shaping up the #EmployeeExperience at the workplace.
#DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #HybridWork #DistributedWork #FlexibleWork #PeopleCentric
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RE: https://mastodon.green/@peterdutoit/116528005013447766
I'd go one step further, if I may ... Why aren't workers themselves "demanding" to both their employers AND governments to have multiple days working from home for the next foreseeable future establishing #DistanceWorking as a new operating model (for those who can) to help mitigate some of the direct pain they are suffering from (Read ... $$$)
Have we learned anything? It's not as if we are back to 1973, right? 🤔
#RemoteWork #DistributedWork #HybridWork #Flexibility #Teleworking #Telework
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RE: https://mastodon.green/@peterdutoit/116528005013447766
I'd go one step further, if I may ... Why aren't workers themselves "demanding" to both their employers AND governments to have multiple days working from home for the next foreseeable future establishing #DistanceWorking as a new operating model (for those who can) to help mitigate some of the direct pain they are suffering from (Read ... $$$)
Have we learned anything? It's not as if we are back to 1973, right? 🤔
#RemoteWork #DistributedWork #HybridWork #Flexibility #Teleworking #Telework
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Oooh, look at that! I think I may have found a viable alternative to both #Zoom and #MSTeams for all of my online 1:1 and 1:many Web meetings:
alfaview 👉🏻 https://alfaview.com/en
Has anyone out there been using it lately who could share their thoughts & experiences on both the UX and UI? Thanks! 🙏🏻😊
#SovereignByDesign #BuyEuropean #DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #DistributedWork #HybridWork
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Oooh, look at that! I think I may have found a viable alternative to both #Zoom and #MSTeams for all of my online 1:1 and 1:many Web meetings:
alfaview 👉🏻 https://alfaview.com/en
Has anyone out there been using it lately who could share their thoughts & experiences on both the UX and UI? Thanks! 🙏🏻😊
#SovereignByDesign #BuyEuropean #DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #DistributedWork #HybridWork
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Another noteworthy quote, if I may:
“Without flexible work, 50% of employees said they would struggle or be unable to cover their basic expenses, while 85% said they would be financially affected”
After reading all of those data entry points from that recent study, can we then start asking why do employers want their employees to become poorer by the day by not embracing #DistributedWork as our brave new-normal going forward? 🤔
[2/2]
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Another noteworthy quote, if I may:
“Without flexible work, 50% of employees said they would struggle or be unable to cover their basic expenses, while 85% said they would be financially affected”
After reading all of those data entry points from that recent study, can we then start asking why do employers want their employees to become poorer by the day by not embracing #DistributedWork as our brave new-normal going forward? 🤔
[2/2]
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“[…] 78% of employees have taken on more flexible work because of the rising gas prices”
Well, we aren't really that surprised about this one, eh? 👉🏻 https://www.hcamag.com/us/specialization/financial-wellness/flexible-work-in-demand-as-employees-try-to-dodge-rising-fuel-costs/571749
“More than two in three (69%) employees said they use flexible work to pay for groceries, 54% for gas, and 34% for rent or mortgage” 💥🤯 [1/2]
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“[…] 78% of employees have taken on more flexible work because of the rising gas prices”
Well, we aren't really that surprised about this one, eh? 👉🏻 https://www.hcamag.com/us/specialization/financial-wellness/flexible-work-in-demand-as-employees-try-to-dodge-rising-fuel-costs/571749
“More than two in three (69%) employees said they use flexible work to pay for groceries, 54% for gas, and 34% for rent or mortgage” 💥🤯 [1/2]
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"The European Commission will present a set of recommendations to its members on how to ramp up clean power and curb demand for fuel [...]. It calls for, among other measures, urging businesses to mandate at least 1 day of remote work each week"
Why not more days?
Ok, then 👉🏻 https://e360.yale.edu/digest/iran-war-energy-crisis-remote-work
"It estimated that 3 days of remote work each week, for those whose jobs allow it, could trim national oil consumption by between 2 and 6 percent"
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"The European Commission will present a set of recommendations to its members on how to ramp up clean power and curb demand for fuel [...]. It calls for, among other measures, urging businesses to mandate at least 1 day of remote work each week"
Why not more days?
Ok, then 👉🏻 https://e360.yale.edu/digest/iran-war-energy-crisis-remote-work
"It estimated that 3 days of remote work each week, for those whose jobs allow it, could trim national oil consumption by between 2 and 6 percent"
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Some more noteworthy quotes from that article:
“Leaders establish presence through concise thinking, calm tone and intentional listening” [Oh my! 🤯]
“In hybrid and distributed work, executive presence shifts from being felt in the room to being trusted at a distance” [Via meetings galore? Really? 😱]
“Presence isn’t the power of your voice, but the depth of your silence” [BOOM! 💥 Leaders, pay attention, please]
#DistanceWorking #Leadership #RemoteWork #DistributedWork #HybridWork
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Some more noteworthy quotes from that article:
“Leaders establish presence through concise thinking, calm tone and intentional listening” [Oh my! 🤯]
“In hybrid and distributed work, executive presence shifts from being felt in the room to being trusted at a distance” [Via meetings galore? Really? 😱]
“Presence isn’t the power of your voice, but the depth of your silence” [BOOM! 💥 Leaders, pay attention, please]
#DistanceWorking #Leadership #RemoteWork #DistributedWork #HybridWork
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"No longer confined to physical rooms, presence is now established through clarity, consistency and intentional communication across digital spaces"
This 👉🏻 https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbescoachescouncil/2026/04/07/hybrid-work-is-redefining-executive-presence-heres-how-to-adapt/ is quite an interesting read, if anything, because it proves we haven't learned much over the last 6 years about #DistanceWorking, if the focus from #Leadership teams is still real-time communications with their teams via meetings galore 😤🤯😔
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"No longer confined to physical rooms, presence is now established through clarity, consistency and intentional communication across digital spaces"
This 👉🏻 https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbescoachescouncil/2026/04/07/hybrid-work-is-redefining-executive-presence-heres-how-to-adapt/ is quite an interesting read, if anything, because it proves we haven't learned much over the last 6 years about #DistanceWorking, if the focus from #Leadership teams is still real-time communications with their teams via meetings galore 😤🤯😔
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One other noteworthy quote, if I may:
"The case for a legal right to work from home for desk-based professions is so overwhelming that it’s almost embarrassing"
Yes, it certainly is, but why aren't we, knowledge Web workers, calling it out and work the magic to make it happen? 🤔
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One other noteworthy quote, if I may:
"The case for a legal right to work from home for desk-based professions is so overwhelming that it’s almost embarrassing"
Yes, it certainly is, but why aren't we, knowledge Web workers, calling it out and work the magic to make it happen? 🤔
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@saskiakarges/116379771695193505
What a prescient and spot on read by @saskiakarges ! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
"We call this ‘the commute.’ In reality, it is a staggering theft of human life — a ritual sacrifice of time offered at the altar of ‘being present’" 💥
"[...] corporate leaders are increasingly demanding a return to office. The logic? A superstitious belief that quarterly earnings can be saved by physical proximity"
Uncomfortable truths ought to be answered accordingly at some point, right?
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@saskiakarges/116379771695193505
What a prescient and spot on read by @saskiakarges ! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
"We call this ‘the commute.’ In reality, it is a staggering theft of human life — a ritual sacrifice of time offered at the altar of ‘being present’" 💥
"[...] corporate leaders are increasingly demanding a return to office. The logic? A superstitious belief that quarterly earnings can be saved by physical proximity"
Uncomfortable truths ought to be answered accordingly at some point, right?
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"But today the situation is also different from the early 1970s. Over the past half-century we have proven that telework works; even in desperate situations like those produced by Covid"
Jack Nilles first coined the concept of teleworking back in 1973, I bet he's having some kind of déjà vu at the moment while the rest of us continue to fuck around 😜
More info 👉🏻 https://jacknilles.substack.com/p/telework-20-hormuz-and-rethinking
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Following up from a previous toot RE: hashtags' RSS newsfeeds, here's an initial list I have set up in order to help me build, nurture and sustain my own following over time based on these topics of interest:
- #RemoteWork
- #DistanceWorking
- #DistributedWork
- #SovereignByDesign
- #cmgrIf there are any other folks interested in such themes, please do get in touch. I would love to connect! 😅👍🏻
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Following up from a previous toot RE: hashtags' RSS newsfeeds, here's an initial list I have set up in order to help me build, nurture and sustain my own following over time based on these topics of interest:
- #RemoteWork
- #DistanceWorking
- #DistributedWork
- #SovereignByDesign
- #cmgrIf there are any other folks interested in such themes, please do get in touch. I would love to connect! 😅👍🏻
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We’ve spent years optimizing individual productivity with #AI.
But what happens when agents start mediating how #teams coordinate, negotiate, and build #sharedunderstanding?Are we designing #collaborative systems — or just automating #distributedwork?
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We’ve spent years optimizing individual productivity with #AI.
But what happens when agents start mediating how #teams coordinate, negotiate, and build #sharedunderstanding?Are we designing #collaborative systems — or just automating #distributedwork?
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The secret to writing so that others can loop themselves into a project without pestering you is to understand what prior context matters and how to convey that simply. In a meeting, this would be the preamble that you’d share with someone in the first few minutes to “bring them up to speed.”
https://www.dropbox.jobs/en/our-blog/virtual-first/increase-focus-through-stronger-writing/
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The secret to writing so that others can loop themselves into a project without pestering you is to understand what prior context matters and how to convey that simply. In a meeting, this would be the preamble that you’d share with someone in the first few minutes to “bring them up to speed.”
https://www.dropbox.jobs/en/our-blog/virtual-first/increase-focus-through-stronger-writing/
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@billseitz @jasongorman
“Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.” 🔥 -
“The honchos calling the shots…appear to be unaware of how people at the company do their jobs.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-rto-mess-return-to-office-remote-work-2023-9
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@photomatt nice summary of distributed work in first 3 minutes. I prefer #distributedwork as a term over #remotework as well and for same reasons you mention