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What We Actually Want Out Of Management
We need management that manages from the perspective of the worker, and leaders that respect and appreciate labor itself.
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On Commutes, Leaving The House, And Addressing Remote Work's Problems
How the framing of our "lost commutes" and "soft work" is being used to push back against remote work - and the actual negatives of working from home.
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How Our Need For Attention Online Drives Us Crazy
When I started writing this newsletter, I did it because I had to write. If I don’t write, I
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We Must Fight The Disrespectful Devaluation of the Worker
Today I had an article from July that I had totally missed, in which an economist called “Austan Goolsbee” tells
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Microsoft's Meaningless Remote Work Study - And The Anti-Work Pro-Office Debate
I was on vacation last week, and nevertheless, everybody wanted to send me this Nature study of Microsoft and remote
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Your Company Is Not Your Friend, Your Family, Or Your Community
As is too often the case, The Times has inspired me with another article - this time about the fact
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Remote Work Isn't The End Of Going Outside
One of the more annoying tropes of the remote debate is that there are two choices - entirely remote, or
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Remote Work Has Inequality Problems, But That Doesn't Make The Office Superior
The Times, as usual, is fighting the bold fight against remote work, this time framing remote work as something that
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Remote Work Shows Us How Dependent We've Become On Offices To Live Our Lives
Despite me writing a newsletter about it on Friday, what feels like 30 people have now sent me the New
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The Pro-Office "Silent Majority" Is A Lie, And The Powerful Want Remote Work To End
Honk! Honk! Pull over, loyal readers. Pull way over. Keep going. More. To tell you the truth, you better clear
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