NoDesk: Issue #303
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).
Remote Jobs
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Latest Jobs
Sales Development Representative, Mid-Market | Nordics (Swedish Speaking) at Deel - Remote (EMEA)
Senior Marketing Project Manager at MongoDB - Remote (North America)
Senior People Operations Program Manager at GitLab - Remote (US)
Social Media Manager at TED - Remote (US)
Staff Product Manager at Timescale - Remote (Worldwide)
Customer Success Manager at Uscreen - Remote (Worldwide)
Product Manager, Enterprise at Sourcegraph - Remote (Worldwide)
Sr. Product Designer - Cloud Platform at HashiCorp - Remote (US)
Strategic Alliance Manager at Pipe - Remote (Worldwide)
UK Partnerships Associate at Substack - Remote (UK)
Director, Public Policy at DuckDuckGo - Remote (US)
Graphic Designer at Tinuiti - Remote (US)
Product Manager, Growth at Stripe - Remote (US)
Senior Software Engineer (JVM) at Help Scout - Remote (US)
Strategic Account Executive (German Speaker) at Twilio - Remote (Ireland, UK)
Strategic Account Manager at 6sense - Remote (US)
Customer Onboarding Associate at Airbase - Remote (Philippines)
Data Scientist at Stripe - Remote (US)
Head of Customer Success Management at Shogun - Remote (US)
Principal Engineer, AI Platform (UK) at HubSpot - Remote (UK)
Principal Product Manager, Payments at Vimeo - Remote (US)
Senior Web Designer at Cloudflare - Remote (Portugal)
Staff Product Designer, Core Experiences at Gusto - Remote (Canada)
Staff Product Manager, Core Experience at Reddit - Remote (US)
Business Development Associate, Nordics and Benelux at SecurityScorecard - Remote (Worldwide)
Senior Manager, Brand Design at Webflow - Remote (US)
Sr. Product Manager, AI Notes and Meetings (Events) at Apollo - Remote (US)
Account Executive, Growth at Brex - Remote (US)
Manager, Business Development (EMEA) at GitLab - Remote (EMEA)
Senior Data Analyst at Pipe - Remote (Worldwide)
TEDx Editorial Intern at TED - Remote (US)
Business Development Representative (AMER) at GitLab - Remote (North America)
Staff Program Manager at GitHub - Remote (US)
Cloud Support Engineer at Pulumi - Remote (US)
Customer Support Specialist (LATAM) at Deel - Remote (LATAM)
Investor Relations Manager at Stitch Fix - Remote (US)
Senior Product Marketing Manager at Monetate - Remote (US)
Top Picks
Hand-picked articles, stories and ideas from the remote work community and beyond.
Does working from home boost productivity? We're starting to get answers
Emily Peck | Axios
Two new papers out last week shed light on one of the big questions of the remote work era: Does working from home make you more or less productive?
It looks like remote workers are getting the boot once again
Hasan Chowdhury | Business Insider
Remote workers are in the crosshairs once more.
A bunch of executives at the e-commerce firm Wayfair singled out remote workers as the ones who were more likely to have been laid off in a fresh round of cuts, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Opinion: The absurdity of the return-to-office movement
Peter Bergen | CNN
But for much of the economy where work doesn’t need to be in person, the demand to “return to office” is not rooted in any concern for employees, a large majority of whom want to work from home — not because they are lazy or don’t want to be productive, but because it gives them more freedom and control over their own lives.
Remote Work Has Radically Changed the Economy – and it’s Here to Stay
Tim Smart | U.S. News
The advent of working from home during the pandemic has significantly affected the economy. It may be changing, but it’s not going anywhere.
Remote Workers Bear the Brunt When Layoffs Hit
Te-Ping Chen | The Wall Street Journal
New data shows fully remote employees are more likely to be let go than their peers. They’re also more likely to quit.
Even Fortune execs who mandate a return to office admit that it doesn’t improve productivity, finds Atlassian’s 40-page remote work report
Jane Thier | Fortune
Ask any manager how they feel about flexible work, and you’ll get a number of different answers.
The biggest change coming to remote work and RTO in 2024, according to a tech CEO
Morgan Smith | Make It
“It will become increasingly untenable for people to sit in the middle with a foot in each camp — to tell employees, ‘You have to come into the office 1-2 days a week,’ without specifying which days or enforcing in-office attendance, and then at the same time, give employees who don’t live close to the office permission to work from home,” he explains.
U.S. workers are getting scooped up by international companies hiring remote roles
Jennifer Liu | Make It
It’s getting harder to find a remote job in the U.S., but you might have better luck working from home for a company based abroad.
The number of American workers hired by international companies grew 62% last year, according to the State of Global Hiring Report from Deel, an HR platform that specializes in global hiring.
How to be productive without making lists?
dottjt | Hacker News
I guess a question I have for everyone is: How do you be productive without lists? Is there a certain way to approach them? Should they be discarded entirely? How do you then keep track of progress?
What is the most boring place you have visited?
sweatysexconnoisseur | Reddit
What is the most boring place you have visited either as a DN or tourist?
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