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

The Sweatpants Dividend

Aziz Sunderji | Home Economics

Those working from home log 46 fewer minutes of work and 49 fewer of commuting, plus 16 fewer minutes of grooming. The freed-up time scatters across domestic life: 27 extra minutes of sleep, 16 of TV, 13 of cooking and eating, 12 of childcare, and 6 of exercise.

Remote Work Is Making a Major Comeback — Here’s What That Means for You

Sherin Shibu | Entrepreneur

Legacy giants like Amazon and JPMorgan have pushed strict office returns, but new research suggests the trend won’t last.

Remote Work Is Linked to a Decline in Financial Misconduct

John Manuel Barrios | Yale Insights

Corporate fraud is rarely a solo act. It typically requires coordination—shared stories, repeated interactions, and trust among conspirators. What happens when those connections are disrupted by remote work? In a new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s John Barrios, researchers find that firms better positioned to shift to remote work during the pandemic experienced a sharp decline in financial misconduct. The likely reason: remote work raised the cost of sustaining collusion.

Decline in remote jobs risks shutting disabled people out of work, study finds

Phillip Inman | The Guardian

Research project warns fall in homeworking roles could undermine efforts to reduce unemployment.

The End of the Office

Andrew Yang | Andrew Yang Newsletter

This automation wave will kick millions of white-collar workers to the curb in the next 12 – 18 months. As one company starts to streamline, all of their competitors will follow suit. It will become a competition because the stock market will reward you if you cut headcount and punish you if you don’t. As one investor put it, “Sell anything that consists of people sitting at a desk looking at a computer.”

How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe

Inaki Aldasoro, Leonardo Gambacorta, et al | CEPR

The authors find that AI adoption increases labour productivity levels by 4% on average in the EU, with no evidence of reduced employment in the short run. The productivity benefits, however, are unevenly distributed. Medium and large firms, as well as firms that have the capacity to integrate AI through investments in intangible assets and human capital, experience substantially stronger productivity gains.

Long-term unemployment is becoming ‘a status quo’ in today’s job market: It’s a ‘mental war,’ job seeker says

Jennifer Liu | CNBC

Today, 1 in 4 unemployed people, or 1.8 million Americans, have been job searching for over half a year, which in most cases means they’ve also exhausted their unemployment insurance benefits. Benefits vary by state but on average replace less than 40% of a person’s previous income.

Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago

Sasha Rogelberg | Fortune

New data on how C-suite executives are—or aren’t—using AI shows history is repeating itself, complicating the similar promises economists and Big Tech founders made about the technology’s impact on the workplace and economy. Despite 374 companies in the S&P 500 mentioning AI in earnings calls—most of which said the technology’s implementation in the firm was entirely positive—according to a Financial Times analysis from September 2024 to 2025, those positive adoptions aren’t being reflected in broader productivity gains.

‘Gringo go home’: Why digital nomads are drawing the ire of locals in Mexico City

Padraig Moran | CBC

With many locals feeling priced out or less at home in their own neighbourhoods, anti-gentrification protests broke out across the city last summer. While largely peaceful, some businesses were vandalized, with windows broken and graffiti demanding “Gringo go home.”

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