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Opinions about remote work are plentiful and conflicting -- but what does the research say? Organizational design expert Mark Mortensen identifies the challe...

Homeworking is not just a corporate issue, it’s a chance to create a better society

Atlassian's co-CEO Scott Farquhar says the switch to a distributed workforce has been “overwhelmingly positive,” but it has not been without its challenges.

This course will help your organization thrive in a remote-first world. Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, authors of Team Topologies and Remote Team Interactions Workbook, will show you how to clarify team interactions for fast flow, using simple sense-making approaches and tools such as the team API, core interaction modes, team dependencies, tracker, trust, boundaries, and more. There will be exercises and guidance on how to apply these techniques in your organization.

Good technology integration isn’t about using the fanciest tool, it’s about being aware of the range of options and picking the right strategy—or strategies—for the lesson at hand.

More people who work from home say they don’t feel a connection to the mission of their employers.

More people who work from home say they don’t feel a connection to the mission of their employers.

Managers say team productivity has taken a hit as employees stay remote.

Everything we thought we knew about how developers work is in a state of change. The Era of Hybrid Work has begun, and it brings new challenges and opportunities along with it. In this paper, we will explore the top challenges that developers are facing in their jobs, the biggest barriers to their productivity and […]

The CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI said one of the tech industry's biggest mistakes was thinking "startups didn't need to be together."

Well-defined interactions are key to effective teams. Team Topologies has laid the groundwork for intentionally designing high-performing teams. But the same intention is essential for effective remote, hybrid, or colocated teams. Team-focused conventions within chat tools (like Slack or Teams) and wiki documentation can help increase discoverability and reduce team cognitive load. But there are…

What can you do to hold your online group's attention? Here's my biggest tip: add stripes!

Acclimating to a new job is never easy but it can be particularly difficult when you aren’t in the office. To compensate, you’ll have to be more proactive. Try to schedule a lot of brief check-ins with colleagues to mimic the short, informal interactions you’d have in person. Use these conversations as a chance to ask questions you may have about your current projects, but make sure to ask people what they are working on too so they have a chance to describe their work. Pay attention to any implicit statements about what they think is most important. Seek out mentors quickly so you have people who can guide you in the new role. Ask for help when you need it. And consider keeping a daily diary of how things went so you can easily identify any questions you have and make a plan to get the answers you need.

When leaders start talking about getting people to return to the office, it’s natural for many employees to resist. The central problem is that many of the benefits of working from home are good for the individual, whereas many of the benefits of working from the office are good for the organization and affect the individual more indirectly. If you’re dreading going back to the office, it might help to have a reminder of how in-person work can actually benefit you — not just your company. The author presents three ways the office can make your working life easier.

Musk wants to implement a "24/7" work culture.

In a study of brain wave activity, researchers found back-to-back virtual meetings are stressful. But the research also points to a simple remedy—short breaks.

Early in the pandemic, I wrote a big piece for the New Yorker about the potential implications of our sudden shift to remote work. One of my predictions was that the shortcomings of the largely improvisational and informal methods by which we currently organize knowledge work -- what I call "the hyperactive hive mind" --

"What's the relationship between Agile work methodologies and remote working?" I was asked. I thought I'd share my quick answer here, in the hope of some crowdsourced refinement.

As you’ve probably realised, distributed working isn’t going away any time soon. The new normal is hybrid, with some people in offices, some working from home, and others in all sorts of random places. And as everyone adjusts, one important question is still being asked. “How do I get people to turn on their cameras … How to get people to turn on their cameras Read More »

Play Wordle with unlimited words! Guess words from 4 to 11 letters in different languages and create your own puzzles. Can you guess the hidden word in 6 tries?

While the rest of the corporate world seems to be begrudgingly offering permanent workplace flexibility, Salesforce and Slack are running forward into virtual-first operations without looking back. Are their internal changes a sneak peek into the future of hybrid working?

Many workers won’t be returning to an in-office situation anytime soon. We know the biases baked into telework; now's our chance to mitigate them.

First we discussed the fact that technical issues cause remote meetings to suck. Then, we discussed how even when there are no technical issues, remote meetings still suck. They suck because they e…

A dead simple tool for running retrospective sessions. Create a board and invite your team to collaborate.

Many people who have been working from home are experiencing a void they can’t quite name.