#distributedwork — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #distributedwork, aggregated by home.social.
-
“[…] fully remote work functioned as a particularly important buffer. In more rapidly shrinking cities, fully remote work was associated with greater life satisfaction, suggesting that digital work arrangements may help residents remain connected to broader labor markets even when local employment opportunities are fragile” 👉🏻 https://phys.org/news/2026-08-fully-remote-stable-term-buffer.html
An uncomfortable truth employers don't want to talk about: #Demographics of their own workforce.
-
“[…] fully remote work functioned as a particularly important buffer. In more rapidly shrinking cities, fully remote work was associated with greater life satisfaction, suggesting that digital work arrangements may help residents remain connected to broader labor markets even when local employment opportunities are fragile” 👉🏻 https://phys.org/news/2026-08-fully-remote-stable-term-buffer.html
An uncomfortable truth employers don't want to talk about: #Demographics of their own workforce.
-
"When the evidence clearly points elsewhere?" Yeah, here you go👇🏻
“Leaders talk about productivity, collaboration, culture and the creative energy that supposedly appears when people share a building”
And yet 👇🏻
“[…] mandate firms did not show a detectable improvement in profitability or firm value relative to non-mandate companies” [2/2]
#RTOMandates #DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #DistributedWork #FlexibleWork #Leadership
-
“Presence is easy to observe. Value is harder. A serious workplace policy should know the difference” 👉🏻 https://siliconcanals.com/t-return-office-mandates-firm-performance-employee-satisfaction/
Next time you're exposed to the silly #RTOMandates, remember the quote above and seriously question the motives as to why an org. would want their employees back at the office when the evidence clearly points elsewhere ... [1/2]
#DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #DistributedWork #FlexibleWork #Leadership
-
@Mjhall ROFL ! 🤣 That's hilarious, Matt! And spot on, too! 🤘🏻😈 haha
Definitely, one to keep for #DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #DistributedWork and #Culture 😜👍🏻
-
RE: https://mastodon.social/@harold/116909646320917274
"The shifts to working from home and learning online can also significantly decrease carbon emissions. We are seeing clean cities for the first time in decades. Let’s keep them clean, and slow down climate change at the same time. Why waste this crisis? The time to think about change is now"
And then people keep telling me #DistanceWorking is a waste of time, no longer relevant, nor worth discussing with governments AND orgs.
Read that again, please 👇🏻😎
-
RE: https://mastodon.social/@harold/116909646320917274
"The shifts to working from home and learning online can also significantly decrease carbon emissions. We are seeing clean cities for the first time in decades. Let’s keep them clean, and slow down climate change at the same time. Why waste this crisis? The time to think about change is now"
And then people keep telling me #DistanceWorking is a waste of time, no longer relevant, nor worth discussing with governments AND orgs.
Read that again, please 👇🏻😎
-
One more worth reflecting on:
“In addition to the daily economics there’s the problem of coping with disasters. Floods, fires, terrorist attacks, earthquakes & just plain lousy weather are all occasions where telecommuting has proven effective in rapid recovery — to the point where a telecommuting plan is a necessary component of the disaster plan of every State of California government department”
Heat waves, anyone? 🥵
#DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #DistributedWork #FlexibleWork #Teleworking
-
“Telecommuters don’t need as much office space. The productivity of telecommuters is higher than that of their in-office colleagues. Telecommuters are more loyal to their employers; they don’t use as much sick leave as their non-telecommuting colleagues. They don’t even need to live near your facilities — or in your country, if you’re finding that quality talent is hard to come by locally”
#DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #DistributedWork #FlexibleWork #BusinessContinuity #Resilience #Teleworking
-
A couple of noteworthy quotes:
"Telecommuting is one important way of stretching our dwindling oil supplies and forestalling global warming while we invent viable and sustainable alternatives to those portents of disaster”
Remember, Jack wrote that fine article back in 2006... What were you doing back then? 🤔
#DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #HybridWork #DistributedWork #FlexibleWork #BusinessContinuity #Resilience #Teleworking
-
“Telecommuting is the substitution of information technology for the daily commute to and from the office” - Management by Results 👉🏻 https://jacknilles.substack.com/p/disasters-and-business-continuity-056
The one & only Jack Nilles wrote that piece back in 2006. Pretty crazy, eh?!? 🤯 Now, read through it carefully, while we're in the midst of this week's nasty heat weave 🥵, and ask yourself:
What are we doing wrong?!?! 🤦🏻🤬
#DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #HybridWork #DistributedWork #FlexibleWork #BusinessContinuity #Resilience #Teleworking
-
Although perhaps my favourite:
"When people aren’t in the office, it’s harder to command and control. Leaders can’t intimidate by hovering over cubicle desks and slamming doors. They can’t establish their dominance by summoning people to a conference room and pounding their fists on the table. They can’t even make direct eye contact to stare people down"
Choose wisely (with your feet) who you're working for👌🏻😎
#DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #HybridWork #DistributedWork #Leadership #RTOMandates
-
A couple of noteworthy quotes:
"They see any kind of remote work as a threat to their authority and admiration. They want to be worshipped at the office altar"
"[…] self-centered leaders tend to struggle with the idea of employees making independent choices about where to work"
Like I said, incredibly useful reminder showcasing some early signs to watch out for when working with sociopaths / psychopaths
#DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #HybridWork #DistributedWork #Leadership #RTOMandates
-
"[…] ordering people back to the office full time is a power and status move. It’s a signature strategy of leaders who exhibit narcissistic qualities" 👉🏻 https://archive.ph/QpMio
Fascinating new research acting as a friendly reminder: Whenever your manager asks you to return to the office, because of, you know, productivity, culture, innovation, etc. you may actually be dealing with a sociopath / psychopath 😤🤯🤬
#DistanceWorking #RemoteWork #HybridWork #DistributedWork #Leadership #RTOMandates
-
@Valdis It's more difficult, indeed, to be a bully, or a narcissist, when #DistanceWorking. If anything, because it's usually well documented, therefore, easily audited, and also out in the open for everyone to see when someone is an ars*h*le.
I don't know whether Zoom does have that feature, but I think it'd be rather useful. Instead of a green check to indicate Web presence, something to flag their bullish behaviour for all to see & remember👌🏻😅
-
@Valdis It's more difficult, indeed, to be a bully, or a narcissist, when #DistanceWorking. If anything, because it's usually well documented, therefore, easily audited, and also out in the open for everyone to see when someone is an ars*h*le.
I don't know whether Zoom does have that feature, but I think it'd be rather useful. Instead of a green check to indicate Web presence, something to flag their bullish behaviour for all to see & remember👌🏻😅
-
"We taught the remote workers to be proactive about communicating with their group members; not to wait in hopes of receiving calls. Often, you can tell whether someone is feeling well or poorly just by the tone of voice. We taught the managers of remote workers to check that effective communications were happening"
Oooh, for those at the back ... Jack coined #Telework in 1973!!! 😍👍🏻
Does that ring a bell? 🤯👉🏻 #EnergyCrisis
#RemoteWork #DistanceWorking #HybridWork #DistributedWork #Teleworking
-
"In my opinion, given the technology available today, 90%+ of most business situations (other than the obvious hands-on things like your annual medical checkup) do not require face-time" 👉🏻 https://jacknilles.substack.com/p/face-time-vs-zoom-time
You know what's pretty crazy about that quote ? It was written by the father of the concept of #Teleworking, Jack Nilles, back in 2010! 😳🤯
Yeah, we know, #RemoteWork is nothing new, and yet ... 🤔
#DistanceWorking #HybridWork #DistributedWork #FlexibleWork #Telework #Teleworking
-
“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
-
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
-
“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
-
“[…] 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
-
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
-
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
-
“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
-
“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
-
“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? 🤔😝
-
“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? 🤔😝
-
"#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”
-
"#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”
-
[…] 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.
-
[…] 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.
-
"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! 😤
-
"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! 😤
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
“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? 🤔
-
“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? 🤔
-
"[…] 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
-
"[…] 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
-
"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
-
"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
-
"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
-
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
-
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
-
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]
-
“[…] 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]
-
"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"
-
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
-
"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 😤🤯😔
-
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? 🤔
-
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?
-
"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
-
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! 😅👍🏻
-
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?
-
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/