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NoDesk: Issue #401 – NoDesk

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A weekly newsletter with the best new remote jobs, stories and ideas from the remote work community, and occasional offbeat pieces to feed your curiosity.

By Daniel (@nodeskco).

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

Zoe B. Cullen | Harvard Business Review

Drawing from hundreds of real-world job offers, research by Zoe B. Cullen finds that tech workers are willing to give up a quarter of their salary to avoid commuting.

Brett Winterford | World Economic Forum

Specifically, the evolution of generative AI has empowered fraudsters to exploit the hiring process for in-demand remote technical roles. Leveraging AI tools to build fictitious resumes painting them as ideal candidates, and using deepfake technology to pass screenings and conduct interviews, scammers have been observed successfully landing remote IT staff jobs.

Séverin Graveleau | Le Monde

As working from home has become a permanent fixture for companies since the pandemic, Vincent Meyer, a labor sociologist, analyzes how this new way of working is transforming trust-based relationships and the role of young people in the professional world.

Michael Allen | Physics World

Academics who switch to hybrid working and remote collaboration do less impactful research. That’s according to an analysis of how scientists’ collaboration networks and academic outputs evolved before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Luke Cooper | ABC

The mental health of Australian women was most positively impacted by flexible working from home arrangements, according to a new study of 16,000 people.

The wellbeing of Australian men was positively affected by drops in daily commuting times from not having to travel to a workplace, the research shows.

Katie Deighton | The Wall Street Journal

Brands trying to wrest greater control of their narratives are asking for ‘storytelling’ skill sets—without a campfire in sight.

Laura Delle Femmine | El Pais

The technological race among industry giants and the wave of layoffs they have announced has revived the debate about the advisability of taxing automation.

Brian Merchant | Blood in the Machine

Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.

Anonymous Contributors | I Thought About That A Lot

I’m sitting down to write this in a gap between jobs. The downtime is strange, like the world has stopped moving but my thoughts haven’t caught up. Other than replaying the shit that went down during the last six months – or to put it more bluntly, the reasons I left, I don’t quite know what to do with myself.

What happened wasn’t unique. And that’s the part that bothers me most.

It’s the same stuff I hear from friends, colleagues, people I trust across the industry.

Jon Herskovitz | Bloomberg

The US is proposing that foreign visitors provide their social media history over the last five years to enter the country, including those from Australia, Germany, Japan and the UK who can now enter without a visa.

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