#telecommuting

#telecommuting

(Christopher Boswell / stock.adobe.com)California state agencies spent nearly $280,000 on "inappropriate expenditures" last year, including the cost to keep the personal boat of a parks and recreation supervisor in a public dock and the wasted time of a sewage plant employee who shopped for comic books during work hours, according to a state audit report.

There was a time before the world changed when most people who are in the corporate world were stuck to their desks for most of their 8 hours every day.But when COVID came and we were "forced" to work remotely, people finally discovered what digital nomads have been saying for years: you can actually work everywhere.

When Elon Musk first took over Twitter, one of his first executive decisions was to end remote work completely.He said there was "no way to sugarcoat" the "difficult times ahead" for the internet's town square.However, he's recently changed his tune on the company's work-from-home policy after shutting down Twitter's Seattle and Singapore offices.

No matter what, we all recognize that life is chaotic and loud, and full of interruptions.And we love our teammates all the more for it.getty
"Um, Jessica, is that your daughter climbing on a bookshelf?"That's what our Internal Communications Manager Jessica heard during a Zoom meeting one day.

If your employer says you have to return to the office, do you have any leverage?A growing list of companies-including , , , , and Goldman Sachs-are rolling back their remote work policies or tightening hybrid work options to compel workers to spend more time in the office.In the US, Congress is is trying to end covid-era teleworking options for federal workers.

Even just daydreaming about becoming a digital nomad can open the floodgates to countless questions: When will you travel, and where?What will you pack?Where will you live, and how will you get around?And what about your job?Some of these only you can answer; it's your adventure, after all.But because being a digital nomad is all about working digitally while traveling nomadically, there are some key questions that you need to ask before you can know if it's safe to pack your bags, book that first flight, and start your new adventure.

As if searching for a job wasn't hard enough, it's made harder by the fact that many job postings are full of language that is either unnecessarily daunting or flat-out confusing.What does it mean to be a "social media warrior?"Should I not apply if don't consider myself an "accounting rockstar?"

The federal government's easygoing return-to-office policy is enabling the majority of employees of Washington, D.C.'s biggest employer to work remotely most of the time and hurting the city's office market, real-estate executives say.Many big-city mayors have been requiring city workers back in the office for the bulk of the workweek and urging companies to do the same.

Twitter has reportedly closed its office doors in Seattle, asking employees there to work from home.The news came via Twitter on Thursday night and comes after CEO Elon Musk-led company has stopped paying rent on the Seattle office, sources told The New York Times.The move also comes after the Times reported that Musk ordered the closing of a data center to help cut costs at the over budgeted company he bought for $44 billion earlier this year.

There will be "difficult times ahead" for Twitter workers - and they will unfold at Twitter's offices, according to Elon Musk, the social media company's new owner.In his first email to staff after acquiring the social-media company for $44 billion and overseeing layoffs for roughly half of its approximate 7,500-person staff, Musk told workers he's expecting them back in the office at least 40 hours a week, according to Bloomberg.

Even as more employers signal an end to remote work, tech startups and their investors are betting that it is here to stay, offering a range of digital tools designed to support a permanent workforce outside of the office.And those bets appear to be paying off.Remotebase, a two-year-old San Mateo, Calif.- based startup that connects businesses with remote software engineers, is seeing revenue growth this year of up to 30% a month, co-founder and Chief Executive Qasim Salam said.