9 Best Articles in 2022
WIRED UK
The perfect number of hours to work every day? Five
WIRED UK
2 min read · 2021-06-15 · Research shows that five work hours a day can improve productivity and bolster wellbeing. There’s only one thing holding companies back
The New York Times
How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons
The New York Times
20+ min read · From 2017 · The start-up has undertaken an extraordinary experiment in behavioral science to subtly entice an independent work force to maximize company revenue.
thinkvisual.ie
The Future Of Work
thinkvisual.ie
1 min read · From 2017 · If you had to imagine your organisation in a metaphoric way, what would you pick? An oiled machine, clicking and clocking? or a bee hive, ever changing, ever buzzing?
ez.substack.com
Remote Work Shows Us How Dependent We've Become On Offices To Live Our Lives
ez.substack.com
5 min read · 2021-08-31 · Despite me writing a newsletter about it on Friday, what feels like 30 people have now sent me the New York Times article about how “a silent majority of American workers want to get back to the…
Marker by Medium
7 Predictions for a Post-Coronavirus World
Marker by Medium
8 min read · 2020-04-14 · Remote work, automation, and telemedicine could soon become the new normal
Forbes
The Future Of Work Will Demand These 8 New Skills
Forbes
4 min read · 2021-02-14 · Getting back to work won’t be getting back at all, it will be a new game. Success in the future will require new skills—some of which may come as a surprise.
VentureBeat
The new world of work: You plus AI
VentureBeat
6 min read · 2021-07-05 · Cogito CEO Josh Feast and Info-Tech Research analyst Igor Ikonnikov weigh in on potential benefits and risks of AI and the future of work.
The New York Times
The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews
The New York Times
~18 min read · From 2017 · We use them to try to “get to know” people. It doesn’t work.
Inc.
This Company's New 2-Sentence Remote Work Policy Is the Best I've Ever Heard
Inc.
3 min read · 2020-07-27 · Siemens' new remote work policy is a master class in emotional intelligence.
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MIT Sloan School of Management
The changing world of work: 5 new ideas from MIT Sloan Management Review
MIT Sloan School of Management
5 min read · Jan 3rd · How leaders can enable collaboration to help remote teams succeed, and why you should reconsider assumptions about when and where people work.
The Walrus
The Dirty Work of Cleaning Online Reputations
The Walrus
9 min read · Jan 4th · For a fee, companies will tackle damaging search results. But is the new economy of digital makeovers making things worse?
davidepstein.bulletin.com
Why New Year's Resolutions Actually Work Astoundingly Well
davidepstein.bulletin.com
2021-12-21 · Seemingly arbitrary benchmarks can act as springboards for change
jeffgothelf.com
UX and OKRs
jeffgothelf.com
3 min read · 2021-12-20 · Objectives and Key Results offer a new opportunity for user experience and design work to make a powerful impact on our products and services
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The Passion Economy and the Future of Work
a16z
7 min read · From 2019 · On new creator platforms, individuality is a feature, not a bug.
The New York Times
What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
The New York Times
20+ min read · From 2017 · New research reveals surprising truths about why some work groups thrive and others falter.
MIT Sloan School of Management
The changing world of work: 5 new ideas from MIT Sloan Management Review
MIT Sloan School of Management
5 min read · Jan 3rd · How leaders can enable collaboration to help remote teams succeed, and why you should reconsider assumptions about when and where people work.
GeekWire
Study of Microsoft employees shows how remote work puts productivity and innovation at risk
GeekWire
2 min read · 2021-09-10 · A new study finds that Microsoft's companywide shift to remote work has hurt communication and collaboration among different business groups inside the company, threatening employee productivity and…
The New York Times
Remote Work Is Here to Stay. Manhattan May Never Be the Same.
The New York Times
8 min read · 2021-03-29 · New York City, long buoyed by the flow of commuters into its towering office buildings, faces a cataclysmic challenge, even when the pandemic ends.
The Conversation
Remote-work visas will shape the future of work, travel and citizenship
The Conversation
4 min read · 2020-09-05 · Smaller countries have been competing for tourists for years. New remote work visas suggest they are now competing for citizens.
azeria-labs.com
The Importance of Deep Work & The 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill
azeria-labs.com
9 min read · From 2018 · The Importance of Deep Work & The 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill The tech industry, especially the security industry, seems outrageously overwhelming to newcomers and even as an intermediate…
McKinsey & Company
What the future of work will mean for jobs, skills, and wages
McKinsey & Company
20+ min read · From 2017 · As many as 375 million workers around the world may need to switch occupational categories and learn new skills.
NPR
The Age Of Automation Is Now: Here's How To 'Futureproof' Yourself
NPR
6 min read · 2021-03-16 · New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose says we've been approaching automation all wrong. "We should be teaching people ... to be more like humans, to do the things that machines can't do," he says.
