We’ve struggled this month to create a collection around remote work, so we’ve gone a bit “around the edges” - but it’s still all relevant to our audience. There is much content around hybrid work at the moment, and it tends to have more of a “how to” angle to it , so we often give it a miss.
So, please send through anything you think we might add in future episodes. https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/contact-us
Coffee Break Articles
05.00 MINS
The Pyramid Principle
Via Sketchplanations
How Remote Workers Are Reshaping Corporate Travel Policies
via Skift
E-voice in the Digitalised Workplace. Insights from an Alternative Organisation
via Human Resource Management Journal (Wiley)
Grabbed from Eva Rimbau-Gilabert’s profile on previously-known-as-Twitter.
Airchat Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Obsession
via Wired.com
Article + Documentary
15.50 MINS
Work Different
a documentary by Julien Capraro
This was recommended by Jack Niles, reader of the newsletter, and author of Managing Telework: Strategies for Managing the Virtual Workforce published by Wiley in 1998.
You can read about the documentary here: https://www.createastir.ca/articles/work-different-rendez-vous-french-film-festival and watch the documentary here: https://www.nfb.ca/film/work-different/
Books
18.12 MINS
The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World
by Dorie Clark
(You might also want to check out Entrepreneurial You.)
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
by Adam Grant
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
by Cal Newport
How To Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
by David Brooks
(thanks Bernie J MItchell for the recommendation!)
Audio Recommendations
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Deep Questions with Cal Newport
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