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The authors argued that remote work has taken the broken culture of the office with it, creating both dysfunction and opportunity. They claimed the book was more relevant a year after its release.
Warzel and Petersen, who are a couple I should add, published an excellent new book together called Out of Office, The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home.
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The authors argued that remote work has taken the broken culture of the office with it, creating both dysfunction and opportunity. They claimed the book was more relevant a year after its release.
Warzel and Petersen, who are a couple I should add, published an excellent new book together called Out of Office, The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home.
I actually think the book is even more relevant today than when it first came out almost a year ago.
You write, quote, this is the dark truth of remote work as we know it now. It promises to liberate workers from the chains of the office, but in practice, it capitalizes on the total collapse of worklife balance, end quote.
One of the original seeds of the book was that we saw a lot of people speedrunning my experience during the pandemic, and we wanted to take the time to work through this.
We also wrote that remote work could easily end up reproducing and even deepening the toxic dynamics of the office if we don't rethink management, productivity, and communication.