Links from anywhere #8

🗺 The complete guide to flexible work that doesn’t kill your career: Other than the lack of references to a global pandemic, you wouldn’t know this article was nine years old. It raises challenges that are still relevant for many hybrid and remote workers. Worth a read. Topics like manager bias and the need for outcome-based goals are incredibly pertinent if you’re in an organization that was forced into remote work and is still finding its way.

🫥 Companies Requiring Full-Time In-Office Are Struggling to Recruit New Employees: “Companies with flexible work policies are growing more quickly than those that require people to be in the office full-time, according to The Flex Index, released July 18, which collects office requirements on more than 4,500 companies with 30,000 locations and that employ more than 100 million people globally.”

🫙🫙 The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks: This has nothing to do with distributed teams or remote work but I’m finding super interesting even though I don’t have strong feelings about Jar Jar. Good road trip / commute listen.

(Darth Jar Jar theorists can come comment on this LinkedIn thread.)

Have a great week wherever you are.

- Derek