NoDesk: Issue #193

Dec 9, 2021

A weekly newsletter with the best new remote jobs, stories and ideas from the remote work community, and occasional offbeat pieces to feed your curiosity.

By Daniel (@nodeskco).

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Featured Jobs

(Senior) Partnership Manager DACH - Europe at GraphCMS - Remote (Europe)
Senior Full-Stack Engineer Ruby / React.js or Ember.js at GOhiring - Remote (Worldwide)
Full-Stack Engineer at Modern Treasury - Remote (US)
Security Engineer at Modern Treasury - Remote (US)
Paid Search Specialist at Linktree - Remote (Australia, West Coast USA)
Growth Specialist at Linktree - Remote (Australia, US)
Senior Product Designer at Tangent - Remote (Worldwide)
Senior Rails Full Stack Developer at Working Not Working - Remote (US)
Senior Ruby Developer at Silverfin - Remote (Worldwide)
(Senior) Customer Success Manager at GraphCMS - Remote (Europe, UK)
Senior API Engineer at Colabra - Remote (Worldwide)
Technical Product Marketing Manager at Semaphore - Remote (Europe, 4hrs overlap with 9am-5pm CET)
Senior Frontend Engineer at Grafana Labs - Remote (Africa, Europe, UK)
Engineering Manager, Grafana Experience at Grafana Labs - Remote (North America, South America, Canada)
Senior Backend Python Engineer at Grafana Labs - Remote (North America, South America, Canada)
Senior Product Designer at Grafana Labs - Remote (North America, South America, Europe)
UX & Research Manager at Grafana Labs - Remote (Africa, Europe, UK)
Campaign Manager - Consultant, UK at AutoSuggest - Remote (Worldwide)
Head of Sales at Semaphore - Remote (Europe)
Senior React Developer at Toptal - Remote (Worldwide)
Senior Blockchain Developer at Toptal - Remote (Worldwide)
Senior Independent Software Developer at A·Team - Remote (Worldwide)
Software Development Engineer IV, Tech Lead at ID.me - Remote (US)
Business Intelligence & Legal Affairs Assistant at ScalingFunds - Remote (Europe)
Community Support Specialist at P00LS - Remote (Worldwide)
Software Engineer - Frontend / React at Overleaf - Remote (North America, UK, Europe)
Full Stack Engineer at Facet Wealth - Remote (US)
Salesforce Engineer at Facet Wealth - Remote (US)
Sr. CSM (Sales Consultant) at Facet Wealth - Remote (US)
DevOps Engineer at Segmed - Remote (Worldwide)
Senior React Native Engineer at Axios - Remote (US)
Product Manager - Insights at Robin - Remote (US)
Software Engineering Manager at Overleaf - Remote (Europe, North America, UK)
Blockchain Jobs / Cryptocurrency Jobs at Cryptocurrency Jobs - Remote (Worldwide)

Latest Jobs

Corporate Paralegal at Cameo - Remote (US)
Customer Success Hero US at Agorapulse - Remote (US)
Product Manager at Eyeo - Remote (Worldwide)
Senior Social Media Strategist at Netlify - Remote (Worldwide)
Sr. Product Designer, Growth at MURAL - Remote (Worldwide)
UX Researcher at Apollo - Remote (US)
VP, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at GitLab - Remote (Worldwide)
Brand Designer at Drops - Remote (Worldwide)
Chief of Staff at CB Insights - Remote (US)
Design Internship at Apollo - Remote (Canada, US)
People Operations Associate at BetterUp - Remote (US)
Sales Engineer at Help Scout - Remote (Worldwide)
Software Engineering Internship (Summer 2022) at Peloton - Remote (US)
UI/UX Designer at Ably - Remote (UK)
Customer Support Specialist at Knack - Remote (Worldwide)
DevOps Engineer at ProtonMail - Remote (Europe)
Finance Coordinator (EMEA) at Hotjar - Remote (EMEA)
Operations Assistant at Awesome Motive - Remote (Worldwide)
Product Manager Internship at Apollo - Remote (US)
Public Relations Associate at DigitalOcean - Remote (Canada, US)
Senior Global Communications Specialist at 350 - Remote (Worldwide)
Account Executive (Mid-Market) at SimpleTexting - Remote (Worldwide)
EMEA Sales Development Representative II at CircleCI - Remote (UK)
Engineering Internship at Apollo - Remote (Canada, US)
Growth Manager at Awesome Motive - Remote (Worldwide)
Sales Admin Intern at iubenda - Remote (Worldwide)
Senior Product & UI Designer at Clearbit - Remote (Worldwide)
Senior Social Media and Digital Marketing Manager at D2iQ - Remote (US)
Customer Success Manager, Strategic Accounts at Coursedog - Remote (North America)
Product Manager, Stripe Infrastructure at Stripe - Remote (North America)
Sales Development Representative at Automattic - Remote (US)
Sales Development Representative - German Speaking at Auth0 - Remote (Germany)
Senior Product Designer at Close - Remote (Americas, Europe)
Senior Data Analyst - Revenue at Coffee Meets Bagel - Remote (Canada, US)
Technical SEO Analyst at Auth0 - Remote (Canada, US)
Technical Support Engineer (Australia) at Timescale - Remote (Australia)
Product Manager at MainStreet - Remote (US)
Sales Development Representative at FormAssembly - Remote (US)
Security Engineer, Product at Twilio - Remote (US)
Senior Product Designer at Squarespace - Remote (US)

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Top Picks

Hand-picked articles, stories and ideas from the remote work community and beyond.

KPMG Report Gives Big Thumbs Down on Long-Term Remote Working

Matthew Parsons | Skift

A revealing survey of corporate mobility teams shows that the post-pandemic legacy of remote work may not be that great after all.

Remote Work Should Be (Mostly) Asynchronous

Steve Glaveski | Harvard Business Review

Well-meaning band-aid solutions achieve little if the toxic norms that rob knowledge workers of autonomy and control remain in place. We can help remote workers get on top of their workloads and mitigate work-life balance conflicts by moving away from hyper-responsiveness and real-time communication towards greater asynchronous communication — the type that truly gives people the freedom to decide when and where to work.

How to kill the American office for good

Drew Magary | SFGATE

Isn’t it weird that you grow up, break into the white collar sector, and then your primary place to go is a cubicle surrounded by random people whose greatest personality flaws and whose worst midday habits you will grow to know intimately? Why would you accept a life engineered that way if you didn’t have to?

Return-to-Office Chaos Is the Best Thing to Happen to Consultants Since Y2K

Matthew Boyle | Bloomberg

A new breed of “experts” is here to help desperate employers navigate these uncharted waters. Too bad no one knows anything.

Tulsa paid people $10k to move there and work remotely. Here’s how it worked out

Jared Lindzon | Fast Company

Since its founding, Tulsa Remote has brought nearly 1,300 workers to town, and a new study suggests that the investment is paying off.

Work in America Is Broken—Can Remote Work Save Us?

Derek Thompson | The Ringer

Derek talks to Anne Helen Petersen, the coauthor of Out of Work: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home, about Americans’ relationship to our jobs, work as an identity, and burnout as a policy choice.

Remote work has a downside. Here’s why I want to go back to the office

Mark Crowley | Fast Company

Despite how popular the idea of working from home permanently has become for many people today, I’ve come to believe that working remotely full-time is detrimental to human well-being, not to mention organizational success. Without working some days each week in the office—when everyone else is there too—the harm to all of us is far greater than we might ever imagine. Here’s why.

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The winners and losers of remote work

George Mack @george__mack

The winners of remote work are skilled people in the developing world. The losers of remote work are skill-less people in the developed world. The media still hasn’t figured this out yet.

Working remote exposed poor management and bad managers

Bryan Liles @bryanl

Remote work wasn’t the pandemic problem. Working remote exposed poor management and bad managers. And in classic bad manager fashion, always find someone else to blame. #HotTakeAdvent

We need to hear more of the real human stories behind why remote work is so important

Chris Herd @chris_herd

We need to hear more of the real human stories behind why remote work is so important Mine: I missed my kids walk, laugh and talk for the first time. I went remote to see them grow up every day What’s yours?

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