NoDesk: Issue #352

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

Remote work is here to stay

Aki Ito | Business Insider

Amazon and JPMorgan want to put an end to remote work — but it’s too late to stop it.

Amazon is ending remote work. Its employees hope the company reconsiders

Laura MacNaughton | CBC

The tech giant and online retailer is requiring workers to return to the office full time.

Remote work won’t die in 2025, but it will get smarter

Gleb Tsipursky | The Detroit News

The notion that 2025 will mark the death of remote work is unfounded. Ultimately, remote work is not a passing trend but a fundamental shift in how we approach productivity, collaboration and work-life balance.

If you want to work remotely this year, you might have to move jobs

Tim Paradis | Business Insider

Remote jobs aren’t as easy to find as they were, especially as some large employers call workers back to the office.

Remote Work’s Persistence Helps Keep Housing Prices High Outside Big Cities

Yuri Nagano | The Wall Street Journal

Meanwhile, continued soft work-space demand and high interest rates are hurting office landlords and banks with commercial-property exposure.

Research: How WFH Can Actually Strengthen Bonds Between Coworkers

Beth Schinoff, Ashley E. Hardin, Kris Byron, Rachel Balven | Harvard Business Review

While much of the research on remote work and coworker relationships assumes that remote work makes coworkers feel more distance from each other, we examined another possibility: We tested whether remote work makes coworkers feel closer by allowing them to learn nonwork information about each other in a new way.

New research reveals economic ripple effects of business closures, remote work and other disruptions

NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Phys.org

With remote and hybrid work now an established norm, many restaurants located adjacent to office buildings are facing a permanent decline in foot traffic. But how will this behavioral shift ripple through businesses along commute routes? Does it trigger a chain reaction that extends far beyond the immediate vicinity of a commercial hub?

Unemployed Office Workers Are Having a Harder Time Finding New Jobs

Matt Grossman, Jasmine Li | The Wall Street Journal

More than 1.6 million unemployed workers have been job hunting for at least six months.

Kakizome, Japanese way of new-years resolution

Dan | Harimus blog

Instead of “I’m going to read one book at least, per week” you can do “It’s the year of reading”. Instead of X days per week at the gym, it’s “the year of health”. The argument is: “When you’re trying to build yourself into a better version of yourself, exact data points don’t matter. Only trendline matter.”

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