Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At (Page 20)

On Commutes, Leaving The House, And Addressing Remote Work's Problems

How the framing of our "lost commutes" and "soft work" is being used to push back against remote work - and the actual negatives of working from home.

Ed Zitron Sep 22, 2021 10 min read

The Anti-Manager Equation

Is management a real job?

Ed Zitron Sep 20, 2021 8 min read

How Our Need For Attention Online Drives Us Crazy

When I started writing this newsletter, I did it because I had to write. If I don’t write, I

Ed Zitron Sep 16, 2021 7 min read

We Must Fight The Disrespectful Devaluation of the Worker

Today I had an article from July that I had totally missed, in which an economist called “Austan Goolsbee” tells

Ed Zitron Sep 14, 2021 8 min read

Microsoft's Meaningless Remote Work Study - And The Anti-Work Pro-Office Debate

I was on vacation last week, and nevertheless, everybody wanted to send me this Nature study of Microsoft and remote

Ed Zitron Sep 13, 2021 8 min read

Your Company Is Not Your Friend, Your Family, Or Your Community

As is too often the case, The Times has inspired me with another article - this time about the fact

Ed Zitron Sep 8, 2021 9 min read

Remote Work Isn't The End Of Going Outside

One of the more annoying tropes of the remote debate is that there are two choices - entirely remote, or

Ed Zitron Sep 2, 2021 5 min read

Remote Work Has Inequality Problems, But That Doesn't Make The Office Superior

The Times, as usual, is fighting the bold fight against remote work, this time framing remote work as something that

Ed Zitron Sep 1, 2021 6 min read

Remote Work Shows Us How Dependent We've Become On Offices To Live Our Lives

Despite me writing a newsletter about it on Friday, what feels like 30 people have now sent me the New

Ed Zitron Aug 31, 2021 5 min read

The Pro-Office "Silent Majority" Is A Lie, And The Powerful Want Remote Work To End

Honk! Honk! Pull over, loyal readers. Pull way over. Keep going. More. To tell you the truth, you better clear

Ed Zitron Aug 27, 2021 11 min read

I Don't Want To Go To Work In The Metaverse

Today Facebook has announced Workrooms, a VR-based working space that you access using an Oculus Quest headset. Zuckerberg’s extended

Ed Zitron Aug 19, 2021 4 min read

Yes, You Can Make Meaningful Relationships Online

One of the classic anti-remote defenses is that remote work doesn’t allow you to make deep and meaningful relationships

Ed Zitron Aug 18, 2021 4 min read

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