Sat. May 9th, 2026

NoDesk: Issue #409 – NoDesk

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Hand-picked articles, stories and ideas from the remote work community and beyond.

Dasl Yoon | The Wall Street Journal

Kim Jong Un’s cyber operatives have faked their way into IT jobs at American firms and elsewhere, pocketing big revenue for regime.

Sarah E. Needleman | Business Insider

Even as companies like Amazon, AT&T, and JPMorgan mandate five-day office returns, work-from-home setups are poised to grow, a new study released by the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests.

Joanne Lipman | The New York Times

Simply put, working from home juices fertility. About 290,000 extra children a year have been born in the United States since the Covid pandemic fueled more work-from-home opportunities, according to a Stanford University working paper.

manidontknowdamn | Reddit

Yep, my firm has announced mandatory RTO. My team has 10/16 who WFH and are no where near a firm office, so no RTO for them. If I were to RTO I would be the only person on this team/department in the office. No leadership, no subordinates, no directors etc in my “office” should I go into the office.

My boss is newer and I feel like she may be more by the book type. Should I change my address in my file and cross my fingers? Should I make my case as to why RTO for me is pointless?

Preston Fore | Fortune

“The companies three to five years from now that are going to be the most successful are those companies that doubled down on entry-level hiring in this environment,” Nickle LaMoreaux, IBM’s chief human resources officer, said this week.

Annie Lowrey | The Atlantic

Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

Theo Leggett | BBC

The recruitment website is jazzy, awash with pictures of happy young workers, and festooned with upbeat mini-slogans such as “insane speed”, “infinite curiosity” and “customer obsession”.

Aruna Ranganathan, Xingqi Maggie Ye | Harvard Business Review

While leaders are focused on promised productivity gains, they may find themselves surprised by the complex reality, and may not see what these gains are costing them until it’s too late.

David Oks

I honestly don’t think that we’re going to see mass unemployment, or the sudden death of human cognitive labor, or anything that feels like an “avalanche.” The years to come will be weird, especially if you’re keeping abreast of the latest developments in AI. But the actual impacts of AI in the real world will be a lot slower and more uneven than people like Shumer seem to think. Human labor is not going away anytime soon. And whether or not they spend an hour a day using AI tools, ordinary people will be fine.

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Andrew Dugan, Micah Kaats, Alberto Prati | The World Happiness Report

Sharing meals proves to be an exceptionally strong indicator of subjective wellbeing – on par with income and unemployment. Those who share more meals with others report significantly higher levels of life satisfaction and positive affect, and lower levels of negative affect. This is true across ages, genders, countries, cultures, and regions.

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