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

Remote work is shaped by geopolitics, not technology

Srividya Jandhyala | Fast Company

Increasingly, geopolitics, rather than technology, is shaping who works, the location of work, and the type of work we get to do.

Remote work drives ‘remarkable’ employment surge for workers with disabilities

Kate Tornone | HR Drive

Remote and flexible work have driven a “remarkable” surge in workforce participation among individuals with disabilities, according to an Oct. 16 report from SHRM.

Remote work reduced gender discrimination — returning to the office may change that

Laura Doering, András Tilcsik | The Conversation

The results were striking. Women were significantly more likely to experience everyday gender discrimination when working on-site than when working remotely.

A large-scale dataset for analysing remote working in urban and rural areas across Europe

Katharina Fellnhofer, Margarita Angelidou, et al | Scientific Data

Overall, the rapid evolution of remote work, amplified by COVID 19 pandemic, has underscored its transformative potential in advancing European Union’s territorial cohesion goals. Despite disparities in adoption between urban and rural areas, remote work presents opportunities to address systematic challenges such as rural depopulation and uneven access to labour markets.

Does your boss have the right to time your bathroom breaks when you work from home?

Gene Marks | The Guardian

For remote work arrangements to be successful, managers and employees need to meet somewhere in the middle.

AI is Making Us Work More

Tawanda Munongo

How the AI boom revived a 996 work culture – and what it says about us and the future of work.

Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts, sources say

Greg Bensinger | Reuters

Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning on Tuesday, as the company pares expenses and compensates for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter.

More Big Companies Bet They Can Still Grow Without Hiring

Chip Cutter | The Wall Street Journal

It is the corporate gamble of the moment: Can you run a company, increasing sales and juicing profits, without adding people?

American employers are increasingly making the calculation that they can keep the size of their teams flat—or shrink them through layoffs—without harming their businesses.

The beach is an objectively bad place to work

JaiYenJohn | Reddit

Almost every article on working as a digital nomad uses the cliche laptop on the beach shot as its main image. I suppose it’s teasing your brain with idea that you can both be on vacation and be working at the same time.

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