Cal Newport
Why Remote Work Is So Hard – And How It Can Be Fixed
The challenges aren’t just technological. They’re managerial.
The New Yorker, 2020
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Business grappled with remote work before COVID; now it faces the challenges and reaps the rewards.
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Managers mostly resisted the concept of remote work until the pandemic left bosses no choice but to embrace it. Businesses that sent employees home are still grappling with the disruption. Writing for The New Yorker, Cal Newport, author of Deep Work, lays out the issues facing firms in managing the mass migration to – and from – remote work. Despite losses in team cohesion and informal, in-person communication, remote work can yield satisfying results for everyone – if you pay attention to workflow issues.
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About the Author
Cal Newport, the best-selling author of So Good They Can’t Ignore You, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World and Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World, teaches computer science at Georgetown University.
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