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They Led the Cult of Remote Work. Now We’re All Members

It only took a pandemic for us to live in Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson’s remote work fantasy “Obviously, the news is a big deal,” said Jason Fried on a call last week. The markets were spiraling, his hometown of Chicago had just issued a stay-at-home order, and the coronavirus pandemic seemed to permeate every aspect […]

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7 Tried-and-True Secrets for a Productive Home Office

The jury is still out on whether employees who work from home or work from an office are more productive, but research from a recent Harvard Business Review article suggests that people who work their same office schedule from home get more done per day. The employees’ explanation? The quiet environment helped their productivity. What’s more, working […]

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10 Remote Workplace Trends To Look Out For In 2021

This past year was one of monumental shifts. While every aspect of our personal lives underwent a significant change, the professional side also saw a massive shake-up. Remote work is one of those new trends. According to a recent Upwork survey, about 1 in 4 Americans (26.7%) will be working remotely in 2021. This is a significant […]

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THE HOME OFFICE BECOMES THE NEW NORMAL

Why trust and autonomy are essential factors when working from home WFH has become the abbreviation we all learned in 2020. But is the home office here to stay, or will the workplace become a little more homely too? You can probably tell a lot about what matters to a society by its biggest buildings. […]

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Establishing Your Home Workspace

This is an excerpt from Entrepreneur Magazine’s Ultimate Homebased Business Handbook by James Stephenson and Rich Mintzer available from Entrepreneur Press . Every business that is operated or managed from home will require some sort of workspace, but not all will require an office in the traditional sense. If you operate a freelance photography business, for example, […]

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What Do We Like About WFH?

Nearly a year into working from home because of Covid-19 closures, each day seems exactly like the one before. I wake up at 7 AM, prep meals, help my son with online school, work alone in a makeshift office, exercise, and finally drop into bed exhausted. Personal-professional boundaries—once difficult to manage—have been entirely erased. As many […]

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Normalisation of work-from-home offers a chance to reimagine the future of workplaces

Covid-induced new normal has brought home to use that development can happen beyond cities, too Whether it was dinosaurs being driven to extinction by a falling comet 66 million years ago or the invention of the transistor radio in 1950, which reshaped electronics and computer design and became a stepping stone for the world’s Fourth […]

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SMEs in western countries turn to India for virtual staffing; no H1-B required

Companies are approaching staffing firms here to hire individuals who can work from anywhere in India but on western timings Small and medium sized enterprises from the West are taking advantage of remote working solutions to ramp up offshore hiring from India. The trend is sort of a new take on the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry […]

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Work from home, work at will — how Covid disrupted Indian workplaces

In 2020, India introduced measures to ease registration & compliance requirements to enable employees of IT and BPO companies to work from anywhere, permanently. Last year the Government of India announced ground-breaking measures that ease several registration and compliance requirements to enable employees of IT and BPO companies to work from anywhere, permanently. This was […]

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Work From Home is dead, long live Work From Anywhere

My colleagues and I published a couple of different views on the future of “work from home” and remote work last Friday — a story that, if analytics is any sign, really struck a nerve with many of you. That shouldn’t be surprising particularly in the tech industry, where knowledge work fundamentally means we spend the vast […]