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NoDesk: Issue #411 – NoDesk

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

Callum Borchers | The Wall Street Journal

Roles that allow you to work from home are four times harder to get than other jobs, by one estimate.

Orsilmar-Thebault | Reddit

Is there any legal recourse here when a company unilaterally changes the fundamental terms of employment this drastically? Looking at either uprooting my entire life to move back or losing my job, and both options are devastating.

Rebecca Florisson, Paula Holland, Alice Martin, Calum Carson, Alison Collins, Jacqueline Winstanley | Lancaster University

The final report of the Inclusive Remote and Hybrid Working Study indicates that six years on from the first Covid-19 lockdown, access to remote and hybrid work has become essential to many people who are disabled or have long-term health conditions, enabling them to stay in work.

Miserable-You-6702 | Reddit

I am making 195K. The commute is 1 -1.2 hours each way for a 30 miles stretch and recently had a baby still under a year old. I feel bad working so far and relying on daycare.

The new job will be completely remote but salary will be hovering around $115K.

Should I leave my high paying job to be fully remote? Is the huge pay cut worth it?

Hans-Christian Dirscherl | PCWorld

When this new feature rolls out, your bosses and colleagues will always know where you are.

Sasha Rogelberg | Fortune

At the end of last year, a Harvard University–led study revealed the lengths to which remote employees would go to continue working from the comfort of their home offices: Participants were, on average, willing to forgo 25% of their total compensation in order to have their identical job, except with partial or full remote work capabilities, instead of working in the office.

Steve Pires, Charlie Thompson | Stewarts

There is a risk that insisting employees return to the office full time could raise concerns of discrimination. For example, some employees may not be able to work from the office five days per week due to an underlying health condition, which is a disability for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010. Depending on the circumstances, subjecting an employee who cannot comply with a return-to-work policy, to disciplinary action, or dismissing them, might be unlawful.

Katherine Bindley, Katherine Blunt | The Wall Street Journal

From startups to giants including Meta and Google, companies are factoring AI use into performance reviews and trying to track productivity gains.

Krupa Padhy | BBC

What’s actually the best, science-backed way to learn a language? To find out, I teamed up with two researchers at Lancaster University’s Language Learning Lab.

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