Rethink Work

Changing how we think about work

#Remote Working

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  • faviconHalf of UK professionals might quit if ordered back to the office full time, poll shows — Hybrid working, with time spend split between the office and another location such as home, is the working pattern for more than three-quarters (77%) of the workforce [2025]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Remote Working, Workplace Dictatorship   
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    Country: UK   
    Source: The Guardian    

  • faviconPM Anthony Albanese flags support for working from home as figures reveal five days in office costs workers $5000 per year — saying he will champion the Australian worker’s right to WFH policies which he said help ease traffic congestion, benefit women and boost rural and regional areas [2025]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Remote Working   
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    Country: AU   
    Source: Various    

  • faviconExtraordinary Labor Market Developments and the 2022-23 Disinflation — How remote work contributed to the unexpected economic recovery of the U.S. post-COVID, keeping unemployment low and managing inflation [2024]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Remote Working, Research   
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    Country: US   
    Source: National Bureau of Economic Research (US)    

  • faviconThis ‘Return to the Office’ Rhetoric needs to end — The worst thing about those calling for a return to the office is that it is masking a bigger problem which crept into the working world in recent years: unpaid, unofficially forced overtime [2022]
    In: Predatory capitalism    
    Topics: Remote Working, Workplace Dictatorship   
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    Source: Independent Blogs    

  • faviconIn their plaintive call for a return to the office, CEOs reveal how little they are needed — The case of remote work shows that the CEO class as a whole failed to pick up an innovation yielding massive benefits before it was forced on them by the pandemic, and have continued to resist and resent it ever since [2024]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Remote Working   
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    Country: UK   
    Source: The Guardian    

  • faviconExpert who coined presenteeism term says employers who force staff back are dinosaurs – Cary Cooper says ‘micromanagers’ risk driving away talent and damaging wellbeing [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Remote Working, Workplace Dictatorship   
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    Country: UK   
    Source: The Guardian    

  • faviconTech execs pushed for a return to the office – now they’re backtracking amid a workforce revolt, with only 3% of firms asking staff to return full-time. Despite reports suggesting that a full return to office is inevitable, frequent backlash from staff and statistics show that hybrid working practices appear to be here to stay [2024]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Remote Working   
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    Country: US   
    Source: ITPro    

  • faviconThe shift to remote work during the Covid-19 pandemic gave Americans 60 million hours of their time back. And recent research indicates that those workers who no longer spend hours commuting to and from the office are using that reclaimed time to focus on their well-being [2022]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Remote Working   
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    Country: US   
    Source: CNBC    

  • faviconThe (ongoing) fight against workplace AI surveillance — A shift to virtual work during the pandemic and recent advancements in AI technology have led to worries about increased surveillance, with very few guidelines on how companies deploy the technology. The technology also isn’t foolproof, which can be problematic [2024]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Remote Working, Technofeudalism, Worker Rights   
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    Country: US   
    Source: The Week    

  • faviconAlmost half of Dell’s full-time US workforce has rejected the company’s return-to-office push. Close to 50% of Dell’s full-time workers in the US have opted to stay remote, even when that meant giving up the chance of promotion, a punitive policy Dell implemented to get employees back in the office [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Remote Working   
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    Country: US   
    Source: Business Insider    

  • faviconThe workers have spoken: They’re staying home. Companies might want people’s rumps back in office chairs, but according to a recent Gartner report, 48% of employees say their company’s mandates prioritize what leaders want rather than what employees need to do good work [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Productivity, Remote Working   
    Comments   
    Source: Computerworld    

  • faviconYour boss is obsessed with productivity without knowing what it means – That’s poor ground to stand on when trying to revoke remote work [2023]
    In: Predatory capitalism    
    Topics: Productivity, Remote Working   
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    Source: Vox    

  • faviconIn a world of Covid, rampant social media mobs, rising ideologies, increasing risk of nuclear war, AI threatening some sort of hockey-stick growth curve, the rise of working from home is a rare bright spot mainly because it allows people to spend significantly more time with their families [2023]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Remote Working   
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    Source: The Intrinsic Perspective    

  • faviconThree-quarters of remote workers based in the UK’s capital city would demand an inflation-busting pay increase – or quit altogether – if asked to give up their right to flexible working, based on survey [2023]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Remote Working   
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    Source: The Register    

  • faviconSome employees have already headed back to their cubicles, some are hybrid, and others are fully remote. The future of work is uncertain, but one thing remains undeniable: pandemic or not, workers are not problems to be “fixed” — work culture is [2022]
    In: Predatory capitalism    
    Topics: Remote Working   
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    Source: Teen Vogue    

  • faviconThe Surprising Effects of Remote Work: Working from home could be making it easier for couples to become parents—and for parents to have more children [2023]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Remote Working   
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    Source: The Atlantic    

  • favicon‘The new normal’: work from home is here to stay, US data shows — While the number of people working from home surged in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic, peaking at around 60% during lockdown, people started returning to work in 2021. But then the number of people doing remote work started to stabilize
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Remote Working   
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    Source: The Guardian