Why Remote Work is So Hard — and How it Can Be Fixed
Cal Newport in the New Yorker on the history and future of remote work:
“When only three per cent of a workforce is remote, managers can get away with business as usual. When that number climbs to thirty per cent, fundamental changes to the nature of work become necessary. Before the pandemic, we were already suffering through a productivity crisis, in which we seemed to be working longer hours, glued to screens and drowning in e-mails. The solutions that make remote work sustainable—more structure and clarity, less haphazardness—may also help fix these other long-standing problems in knowledge work.
THIS! Thank you, Cal, for saying this.
