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NoDesk: Issue #404 – 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.

Lora Kelley | The New York Times

Some start-ups, blurring the lines between home and office, are embracing a “no shoes” policy.

Nick Lichtenberg | Fortune

For the past three years, the corporate world has been locked in a territorial dispute. The return-to-office (RTO) wars were defined by geography: the home versus the headquarters. But as 2025 unfolded, the front line shifted. According to a report from commercial real estate giant JLL, Workforce Preference Barometer 2025, the most critical conflict between employers and employees is no longer about location—it is about time.

Hoover Institution

Remote work is no longer a pandemic-era stopgap. It’s a durable shift reshaping how Americans organize workplaces, family life, and cities.

Shoshana Deutschkron | Fast Company

This is what happens when the office is a resource, not a tool of control.

Jarrell Dillard | Bloomberg

US job openings fell in November to a more than one-year low and hiring slowed, indicating most employers remain reluctant to make big changes to headcount.

Stephane Derosiaux | The Technical Executive

The answer is uncomfortable: the 70-90% productivity claim is true for about 10% of the industry. For the other 90%, it’s a marketing hallucination masquerading as data.

The Economist

If you think rich, individualistic societies are the loneliest, think again.

Candost

When you let your thoughts wander, they take you on a journey you’ll never think possible. You reflect on the smallest details of your fast life. Your brain absorbs all the mistakes you’ve made. You accept that you can’t change failures anymore, as much as you feel guilty.

You might as well not worry about them and focus on what you can change: what you do now. And what you will do next.

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