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NoDesk: Issue #415 – NoDesk

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

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez | Fortune

The job market is frozen in place, and it may still be a while until it thaws, said Nicholas Bloom, the Stanford economist whose research explained why millions left their jobs during the Great Resignation.

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez | Fortune

Jamie Dimon, who has led America’s largest bank, JPMorgan, for 20 years and through multiple recessions, blasted remote work and offered a stern warning for any younger generations who want to move up the career ladder: Get into the office.

Ben Kesslen | QZ

Microsoft is the latest tech giant to mandate a three-day in-office week, years after peers like Apple, Google, and IBM already made the call.

Bruce Crumley | Inc.

As stricter return‑to‑office mandates take hold, new data shows remote workers reversing their pandemic‑era migration.

Servet Yanatma | Euronews

The research, covering 38 countries including those in Europe, finds that realised and planned fertility increases by 0.32 children per woman when both partners work from home at least one day per week compared with those who work at employer or client sites.

Rachel Wolfe, Te-Ping Chen | The Wall Street Journal

They’ve got their whole careers ahead of them, and they’re navigating a technology with a still-uncertain impact.

Sydney Ember | The New York Times

Artificial intelligence could reshape work, but for now a low-hire, low-fire labor market is the main impediment for young people seeking employment.

Jacob

Saying “I am a software engineer” is beginning to feel like saying “I am a calculator” in 1950 now that digital machines can use electrical circuits to count, add, multiply – it’s not long until they’ll be able differentiate a non-continuous function… You’re beginning to feel less-than-useful.

This bothers a lot of people for a reason (I think) that has nothing to do with the technology. The fear isn’t really about losing a job title, it’s about losing the story you tell yourself about who you are.

Jeanne Bonner | CNN

If happiness were an Olympic event, the Nordic countries would be guaranteed a spot on the podium.

Actually, all three spots on the podium.

According to the latest edition of the World Happiness Report, the three happiest countries in the world are Finland, Iceland and Denmark.

Anna Richards | BBC

For more than 50 years, France’s brown motorway signs have done far more than point the way: they’ve sold the country’s history, culture and identity in seconds.

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