<< 4-Day Work Week: Complete Overview Next chapter: Schedules >> In January 2020, a fully remote company I run, Nectafy, implemented to a four-day work week. Therefore, I’ve run a company that operates on a four-day work week and personally worked the schedule myself as an employee. I’ve enjoyed the benefits of a four-day work week as an individual in my daily life and as…
We think we always move forward with technology. Often, technology allows us to cycle backward to our original preferences. Think about it: We had hieroglyphs ⇒ then written language ⇒ and we’re back to emojis. Aren’t emojis just digital hieroglyphs? Farming ⇒ factory food ⇒ organic Nomads ⇒ cities ⇒ digital nomads Our technology moves forward to allow our preferences to revert. With that…
The adoption of remote work took an exponential leap forward as a result of pandemic lockdowns. Anyone who had the ability to work from home was either forced or recommended to do so. As you’ll read in the list of remote work statistics below, generally about 3% of the US working population worked from home before 2020. Now, ten times that (29% of respondents) would…
Don’t do what I did. I’ve worked from home for a decade, but just recently prioritized my office chair. When I was 22, I sat in a recliner with my laptop on my lap. When I was 24, I sat in a plastic IKEA chair. At 25, I went wild and bought an office chair on Craigslist for $30. When I was 28, I sat…
What is monday’s workforce software? Monday.com Work OS (operating system) is an award-winning project management software with 100,000+ companies as clients. Now… that is what the nice people at monday.com say, so let’s take it with a grain of salt. They do have those awards to back it up, though. But we can always verify those lofty claims through third parties. Here are a…
The media has declared that the future of work is hybrid. (Just so we’re all on the same page, this is how I’d define hybrid work: The company plans to have employees working from home part of the time and in an office part of the time. That’s from our workplace dictionary). This argument for hybrid work comes off as lazy. The basic premise seems…
I thought about doing a remote work study. I really did. Then I remembered that I read amazing ones from Buffer and Owl Labs each year. Then I remembered I read one from GitLab this year that was fantastic. I came to the conclusion that the world does not need yet another remote work, or State Of Remote Work, study… especially in 2021. But, we…
Anyvoo Review: My Take On The Video Conference Backdrop Want to see how Anyvoo stacks up against four other video conference backgrounds? Read this in-depth buyer’s guide: 5 Video Conference Backgrounds Reviewed (Avoid These 2!) Transcript “I had a client meeting the other day. I’m here at my home office. The guy turns on the video camera and he says to me, Hey,…