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Remote Work

Working from all over the world in flexible hours.

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  • GitLab's Guide to All-Remote
    • GitLab has 1,500 employees working around the world remotely
    • A bit unorganized but it contains resources for employers, managers, and employees
  • Changing my mind on remote | Flo Crivello
    • An AI assistant company ends remote work because of the friction in communication compound over time
  • The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers | Nature
    • Synchronous communication decrease and asynchronous communication (less "rich" media: email, IM) increase
    • The collaboration network becomes "more heavily siloed" (isolated), which may "impede the transfer of knowledge" and "reduce the quality of workers' output"
  • The Relationship Between Remote Work and Job Satisfaction | Master Theses, San Jose State University
    • Mediating roles of perceived autonomy and work-family conflict in the relationship between remote work and job satisfaction
    • Remote work → higher perception of autonomy → higher job satisfaction
    • Remote work → fewer work-family conflicts → higher job satisfaction
  • The hottest new perk in tech is freedom | Vox
    • How small companies use remote work to attract talent, e.g.: Airbnb and Yelp
    • Fixed office location limits the talent pool that a company can be working with
    • Return to office policies might just be human nature to revert to known quantity practices under uncertainty
  • The damaging results of the mandated return to the office
    • 76% of employees would seek a new job if flexible work policies were retracted
    • Status quo bias: employees inclined to maintain the current state of flexible work
    • Anchoring: after the pandemic, employees are anchored to work-life balance and flexibility
  • The future of remote work
    • It's hard to reason about remote work without the context
    • There are experiences on remote (pros vs cons), and also the market dynamics of remote (companies vs talents)
    • Companies with slower growth and a product market fit are better for remote work
    • Don't bluff, don't say remote is the future/mandate office. It hurts credibility.
  • Return to Office is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It
    • The bullshit is forcing relocation top down for the whole organization
    • Never choose the option that gives an ultimatum. Never dehumanize yourself in submission.
    • Forced relocation ultimatums will eventually hurt trust and lost talents for big companies