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NoDesk: Issue #407 – NoDesk



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

Bruce Crumley | Inc.

Home Depot joined the list of businesses ordering staff back to offices five days a week, along with layoffs, but these high-profile announcements mask the reality that flexible work arrangements are now a workplace fixture.

Prithwiraj Choudhury | LSE Research

How is technology changing the world of work and what are the benefits of the ability to work from anywhere? Prithwiraj Choudhury has been looking to the future.

Modern Diplomacy

Remote-first is not a fad. It is a business model that, for many companies, rewires hiring, cost structure, product development, and even risk. Over the last five years a pattern has emerged. Teams that make remote work a first-class operating choice often move faster, hire smarter, and spend more of their money on growth than on square footage. This piece looks at the pragmatic reasons behind that advantage and what leaders who still prefer offices need to understand.

Ron Starner | Site Selection Magazine

โ€œA pizza party will not be enough to justify a one-hour commute,โ€ he says. โ€œWe need to re-establish office norms and social norms so that people, especially Gen Z, can be mentored.โ€

Open Enough Design

You call this your productivity cockpit. You optimized it for Deep Work. But looking through the lens of Open Enough Design, I see a room thatโ€™s taxing your nervous system in ways youโ€™ve stopped noticing. Youโ€™ve built a space that looks like focus but feels like depletion. And youโ€™ve been blaming yourself for the fatigue.

The room is the problem. Not you.

Gleb Tsipursky | The Hill

On Jan. 20, 2025, a signed return to in-person work memo landed on agency desks and sent managers scrambling. At the Social Security Administration, routine telework collapsed within weeks, even as phone lines stayed jammed.

A fresh watchdog report shows the human cost.

Alison Green | Slate Magazine

Although weโ€™ve been told that A.I. is poised to โ€œrevolutionizeโ€ work, at the moment it seems to be doing something else entirely: spreading chaos. All throughout American offices, A.I. platforms like ChatGPT are delivering answers that sound right even when they arenโ€™t, transcription tools that turn meetings into works of fiction, and documents that look polished on the surface but are riddled with factual errors and missing nuance.

Kateryna Karunska, Attilio Di Battista, Mark Elsner | World Economic Forum

The rapid commercialization of AI is among the most transformative trends, reshaping approaches to work and value creation across nearly all industries. The key uncertainty is no longer whether AI will impact the global economy, but how rapidly and how deeply it will reshape it.

Beth Rose | BBC

More than 700,000 university graduates are out of work and claiming welfare benefits, new analysis by a think tank suggests.

Alexander Linton | The Diplomat

How Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines are vying for the worldโ€™s mobile workforce, and what it means for the region.

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