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NoDesk: Issue #406 – NoDesk



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

Filippo Boeri, Riccardo Crescenzi, Davide Rigo | CEPR

Work from home is now a permanent feature of how firms organise production, yet its effects on productivity remain unclear. Using new data covering all remote workers in Italy, this column shows that the COVID-19 pandemic-driven shift to work from home initially reduced productivity, but these losses disappeared as firms adapted.

Julie Thompson | Business.com

Remote work is no longer reserved for employees of large corporations or influencers traveling the globe. The world of work has shifted toward flexible schedules, with many employees seeking a remote or hybrid arrangement.

Anthony Borreli | Binghamton News

Researchers from Binghamton University explore how to boost leadership, teamwork in virtual settings.

Jeffrey R. Smith | HRD Canada

Constructive dismissal: Hybrid, remote arrangements can quietly harden into contract terms โ€” and mismanaging them can be costly.

Shekari Philemon | Rolling Out

Remote work is creating two classes of employees with power imbalance.

Lianne Kolirin | CNN

While workers worldwide ponder how AI might affect their livelihoods โ€“ a topic on the agenda at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week โ€“ that question is no longer hypothetical in the translation industry.

Dan Koe | future/proof

Everyone is worried about whether or not AI will replace them.

But I canโ€™t help but think that there is something about the human experience that canโ€™t be replaced.

I canโ€™t help but think that humans will still want to work.

Peter Cappelli | Penn Today

mall slights from a manager may seem like no big deal, but new research from Wharton reveals that even the mildest of mistreatment at work can affect more than just employee morale.

Kristen French | Nautilus

They sit alone in a room, expressionless, doing absolutely nothing, giant timers clocking down the hours and minutes. No books, no devices, no food, no distractions, no sleep. Itโ€™s a challenge some Gen-Zers are setting for themselves on TikTokโ€”the โ€œDo Nothingโ€ challenge. The idea is to deliberately court boredom to restore depleted attention spans, a salve for the frantic overstimulation of our distracted age. Some of these videos accumulate millions of views.

Katy Austin | BBC

Passengers at Britainโ€™s biggest airport, Heathrow, can leave liquids in containers up to two litres in their bags while going through security, after it finally completed the rollout of new high-tech CT scanners.

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