Death To The Office 06.08.21 🌍
A weekly newsletter helping you discover forward-thinking companies, modern career opportunities and important ideas from the future of work community.
By Luke @jakobsonio
Latest companies:
Discourse
is modern forum software for your community that can be used as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat room, and more.
Key value:
Completely flexible schedule. No set hours. Need to take two weeks off? Wanna try the digital nomad lifestyle? Let’s figure it out! If customers are happy, we’re happy.
Open positions
Hiring for engineering roles.
Easy Agile
Agile made easy for everyone on your team. Products. Personas. User Story Maps. Roadmaps. Programs.
Key value:
Flexible working options (because we value outcomes over output).
Open positions
Hiring for engineering, and product roles.
Alley
are strategists, researchers, designers, and developers who craft custom digital experiences for publishers, nonprofit institutions, museums, and brands.
Key value:
Remote control. When hiring new employees, we prioritize raw talent over geographic location. We want the best of the best, no matter where they are. And that hiring philosophy has created a diverse, engaged network of Alley staff all over the country. We give our team members the space they need to work how they work best.
Open positions
Hiring for developer and designer roles/
Northstar
are making it easy for everyone to access affordable, unbiased financial advice.
Key value:
Fully remote and helps employees make the most of their compensation and benefits with financial solutions.
Open positions
Hiring for design, engineering, financial planning, operations, product and sales roles.
Expensify
helps automate your pre-accounting process for expenses, bills, invoices, and more.
Key value:
Work from anywhere you want. If you like to mix work and travel all on your own, just take your laptop! For those who are permanent remote employees, you can choose which Expensify location to visit every year. Depending where you go, you might get a bonus greeting from one of our canine companions.
Open positions
Hiring for engineering and student ambassador roles.
This week’s best tabs and tweets
More than 25 million non-tech jobs expected to become work from home
Tech Republic
A report from Upwork shows that nearly 40% of such roles will be able to be done remotely, as a result of the global pandemic.
Workers Are Gaining Leverage Over Employers Right Before Our Eyes
NYT
The relationship between American businesses and their employees is undergoing a profound shift: For the first time in a generation, workers are gaining the upper hand.
Apple employees push back against returning to the office in internal letter
The Verge
Apple employees are pushing back against a new policy that would require them to return to the office three days a week starting in early September.
People quitting instead of coming back to offices is very real:
Most people cannot have their best ideas if they are in back to back meetings every day:
Have a whole career remote and get rich while doing so:
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-Luke