NoDesk: Issue #304
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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Latest Jobs
Marketing Content Specialist at FullStory - Remote (US)
People and Culture Manager at The Good Food Institute - Remote (US)
Principal Security Engineer at Code for America - Remote (US)
Sales Engineer at Simon Data - Remote (US)
Senior Marketing Operations Manager at Pleo - Remote (UK)
Accountant at Platform.sh - Remote (Europe, UK)
Content Creator Intern (6-months internship) at Livestorm - Remote (Europe)
HRBP at Axios - Remote (US)
Junior Financial Analyst at Deel - Remote (India)
Senior - Staff Backend Engineer at Linear - Remote (Europe)
Senior Security Engineer at Cloudflare - Remote (Portugal)
Customer Success Manager - EMEA (fluent German/English) at Agorapulse - Remote (EMEA)
Junior UX Designer at Canonical - Remote (EMEA)
ML/AI Engineer - Applied Research at Figma - Remote (US)
Sales Compensation Manager at Mapbox - Remote (US)
Senior Event Marketing Manager at Hasura - Remote (US)
Account Manager at Mural - Remote (EMEA)
Campaign Manager at Maze - Remote (US)
Customer Success Manager (German speaking) at Deel - Remote (Spain, Portugal, Poland, Turkey)
Customer Support Specialist (APAC) at Circle - Remote (APAC)
Product Designer at Udacity - Remote (US)
Senior Developer Advocate at Elastic - Remote (US)
Senior Product Manager at BetterUp - Remote (US)
Controller at ClassDojo - Remote (US)
Principal People Team Business Partner - GTM at Cloudflare - Remote (US)
Sales Development Representative at Chili Piper - Remote (US)
Sales Development Representative at Monetate - Remote (US)
Account Executive, Strategic Accounts at Airtable - Remote (US)
Senior UX Designer at SecurityScorecard - Remote (US)
Strategic Account Executive, Voice at Twilio - Remote (US)
Cloud Technical Writer, Contract at MongoDB - Remote (US)
Sales Manager, Growth at Brex - Remote (US)
Sr. Manager / Director of G&A Systems, HR and Finance at Airtable - Remote (US)
Staff Product Manager - Verification at Twilio - Remote (UK)
Staff, Community Product Marketing Manager, Core Experience (Contract) at Reddit - Remote (US)
Top Picks
Hand-picked articles, stories and ideas from the remote work community and beyond.
Employees are spending the equivalent of a month’s grocery bill on the return to the office–and growing more resentful than ever, new survey finds
Erin Eatough, Christine Carter, Kristi Leimgruber, Khoa Le Nguyen | Fortune
Despite the benefits of remote work for employees, many organizations are abandoning it in favor of returning to the office full-time–or part-time in a hybrid model.
No, office mandates don’t help companies make more money, study finds
Danielle Abril | The Washington Post
New research shows that return-to-office mandates don’t play any role in a company’s financial performance, but do have negative side effects for its workforce.
Remote Work Has Stabilized But Its Future Is Uncertain
Richard McGahey | Forbes
Stanford economist Nick Bloom, one of the top analysts of working from home, recently released a detailed slideshow on where he sees things going. Bloom sees working from home “stabilizing at about 28% of (working) days” economy-wide, “a 5-fold jump” over pre-pandemic levels in 2019.
Remote work rebellion: SAP’s RTO push prompts 5,000 employees to sign letter saying they ‘feel betrayed’
Brody Ford, Agatha Cantrill | Fortune
An internal letter criticizing SAP SE’s back-to-office policy has attracted more than 5,000 signatures in less than two weeks, with the German software company’s employees threatening to look for other jobs rather than return.
What experiences are young people missing in remote work?
Jonathan Chang, Meghna Chakrabarti, Tim Skoog | WBUR
After the pandemic normalized remote work, how are young people today getting that professional coming-of-age experience?
Intertemporal Tradeoffs of Remote Work
Steve Maas | NBER
Working alongside coworkers increases feedback and knowledge sharing but reduces short-term productivity, leading to tradeoffs over the short and long run.
Nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off in the first weeks of 2024. Why is that?
Bobby Allyn | NPR
All of the major tech companies conducting another wave of layoffs this year are sitting atop mountains of cash and are wildly profitable, so the job-shedding is far from a matter of necessity or survival.
Then what is driving it?
How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent
Adaobi | Adaobi's Newsletter
This is a blog post aimed at people who want to do important work or make meaningful contributions to work, but feel they aren’t that smart and don’t have any talent.
Meet the company that sells your lost airplane luggage
Zachary Crockett | The Hustle
If you’ve ever permanently lost a checked bag, your stuff probably ended up for sale at a store in Scottsboro, Alabama.
Japan to introduce six-month residency visa for 'digital nomads'
Nikkei Asia
Japan will establish a new visa status that will make it easier for IT engineers and other workers for overseas companies to reside in the country, the Immigration Services Agency said Friday.
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