Hacker News with Generative AI: Remote Work

Directory of job boards by category (remote only, data science, etc.) (jobsearchdb.com)
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No Calls (keygen.sh)
When I first started Keygen, I had this idea in my head that I could create a company where I never had to get on a sales call — or any call.
Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home (theregister.com)
Years after the pandemic reshaped working practices across the world, many staff are still resisting corporate efforts to get them to return to the office preferring instead to quit in favor of a more flexible employer.
Ask HN: Best side hustle for WFH guys (ycombinator.com)
My "remote" web development setup (brettterpstra.com)
Recent changes in my health have made it such that some days I’m couch-bound upstairs, while my office (and primary work computer) is in the basement. This has led to some interesting solutions for my daily work.
What it's like working for American companies as an Australian (seangoedecke.com)
For the last ten years I’ve worked for American tech companies as an Australian based in Australia.
JPMorgan reportedly ending remote work for more than 300k employees (forbes.com)
It’s JPMorgan’s turn. AT&T did it. Amazon did it. Walmart did it too. Many large corporations and institutions are calling quits on remote work. And now, JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the U.S., reportedly plans to end remote work and require more than 300,000 employees to work from the office five days a week.
JP Morgan Chase requires all workers to return to office five days a week (theguardian.com)
JPMorgan Chase is summoning all staff back to the office, becoming the latest corporate giant to call time on era of remote and hybrid working sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Directory of remote-only job boards (jobsearchdb.com)
Nearly half Dell's US workforce has rejected RTO. Rather WFH than get promoted (2024) (msn.com)
'It didn't come as a surprise': UK workers on being forced back into the office (theguardian.com)
Christina says it is a “logistical nightmare” working out the school and nursery runs after being ordered to return to the office for three days a week from January. “It didn’t come as a surprise but it was devastating,” she says.
Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy call remote work a 'Covid-era privilege.' (cnbc.com)
German Amazon Workers Can Apply to WFH Despite Company's Global RTO Mandate (msn.com)
Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom (arstechnica.com)
Advocates say tech workers movements got too big to ignore in 2024.
Amazon delays return-to-office in some cities due to lack of space (geekwire.com)
Some Amazon workers won’t be back in the office five days a week when the company’s new RTO mandate goes into effect next month.
In Maine, remote jobs give prisoners a lifeline (bostonglobe.com)
Remote Work Is Increasingly a Right of the Rich (nytimes.com)
When it comes to remote work, the C-suite wants workers to do as they say, not as they do.
Amazon Delays Return-to-Office Mandate for Workers (bloomberg.com)
Amazon.com Inc. won’t have enough space for thousands of employees when they start returning to the office five days a week next month.
Amazon is showing us how not to do return-to-office mandates (arstechnica.com)
Amazon announced in September that it will require workers to be in the office five days a week starting in January.
AT&T follows Amazon in demanding employees spend 5 days a week in office (fortune.com)
AT&T is dumping hybrid work as it follows Amazon in demanding employees spend 5 days a week in office
Companies issuing RTO mandates "lose their best talent": Study (arstechnica.com)
Amazon reportedly doesn't have room for everyone it ordered to RTO (qz.com)
Amazon (AMZN+2.30%) is reportedly hitting pause on its return-to-office (RTO) plans due to a shortage of office space.
Ask HN: How do you find part time work? (ycombinator.com)
I have a project that I'm working on turning into a small business. I've done some part-time work (retainers and project-based) over the past year and it's gone well. It's relatively high pay for part-time work, leaving me time and flexibility to work on my own project.
Remote Jobs Paying $250k+ Surge by 18%, New Data Shows (forbes.com)
Ladders, the job board for high-earning jobs that pay at least $100,000 a year, just released new data on the availability of remote jobs over the past quarter. And its biggest takeaway? High-paying remote jobs are coming back.
Study: RTO mandates are making it harder for companies to hire (fastcompany.com)
A new study found that RTO mandates across S&P 500 companies significantly increased turnover among tech and finance workers—especially for women.
Only 6% of federal workers show up in person on full-time basis (nypost.com)
They’re being remote-ly professional.
Federal Employees Land Work from Home Deal Ahead of Trump (bloomberg.com)
A Biden administration appointee has agreed to lock in hybrid work protections for tens of thousands of Social Security staff, part of a slew of organized labor efforts that complicate President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to reshape the federal workforce.
2025 will be a bad year for remote work (computerworld.com)
“Mr. Musk Goes to Washington.” And he’s planning to roll back remote work in the federal government.
Communication Structures in a Growing Organization (jessitron.com)
When Honeycomb was a small company, All Hands meetings had announcements and discussions. Discussions mostly took place in the meeting chat, where everyone can answer anyone’s question. Between that and the announce channel in Slack, information got out to the whole company.
What I learned solo bootstrapping 8 software products (dominiksobe.com)
I've spent the last 5 years solo bootstrapping 8+ software products while nomading the world as an Indiehacker. In this video I cover the most important lessons from each one.