WLP281 What's Going On: Is the World Really the Remote Worker's Oyster?

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams

Brought to you by Virtual Not Distant in London (https://virtualnotdistant.com)

Today Pilar Orti and Maya Middlemiss explore topical themes and publications in remote work, including:

03.10 Going back to (the) work (place) Work at the Office, Win a New Car! Seriously! But there are better ideas from Ocado Group offers staff remote working abroad.

13.54 Regulating ‘work from anywhere’:

• Your Company Needs a Digital Nomad Policy (HBR)
• Top CHROs Believe 'Flexibility Within a Framework' Is the Future of Work (Gallup, June 2021).
• What to do about "Global COVID Nomads",

34.10 The future is flexible…

Let’s remember, in all this talk of location-hopping, that flexibility as a principle is about much more than where you work. Future Forum study of 10,000 knowledge workers shows that 93% want flexibility in when and how they work; more than half are open to a job change.

(Slack are taking care of our emotional wellbeing in an app update, and advancing their audio offering too).

41.30 Company news

New coworking adventures from the Virtual Not Distant team.

What about you? Don't forget to share your questions, ideas, links, and concerns, about the rapidly evolving remote work scene.