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Remote: Office Not Required

by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

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Business. Nonfiction. HTML:The classic guide to working from home and why we should embrace a virtual office, from the bestselling authors of Rework  
 
??A paradigm-smashing, compulsively readable case for a radically remote workplace.???Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Quiet
 
Does working from home??or anywhere else but the office??make sense? In Remote, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the founders of Basecamp, bring new insight to the hotly debated argument. While providing a complete overview of remote work??s challenges, Jason and David persuasively argue that, often, the advantages of working ??off-site? far outweigh the drawbacks.
 
In the past decade, the ??under one roof? model of conducting work has been steadily declining, owing to technology that is rapidly creating virtual workspaces. Today the new paradigm is ??move work to the workers, rather than workers to the workplace.? Companies see advantages in the way remote work increases their talent pool, reduces turnover, lessens their real estate footprint, and improves their ability to conduct business across multiple time zones. But what about the workers? Jason and David point out that remote work means working at the best job (not just one that is nearby) and achieving a harmonious work-life balance while increasing productivity.
 
And those are just some of the perks to be gained from leaving the office behind. Remote reveals a multitude of other benefits, along with in-the-trenches tips for easing your way out of the office door where you control how your workday will unfold.
 
Whether you??re a manager fretting over how to manage workers who ??want out? or a worker who wants to achieve a lifestyle upgrade while still being a top performer professio
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  vorefamily | Feb 22, 2024 |
The COVID pandemic forced the global workforce to become used to working from home, and many of us transitioned there permanently. I grew up with my professor-father often working from home in the evenings and trudged through graduate school studying and writing in a home office. Thus, working from home was not entirely new to me. In 2013, when this book was written, this idea was still a relatively fresh management technique, and this short guide sought to pioneer its concepts to the wider working world.

I read this book in search of understanding early actions that spurred remote work. For almost 30 years, I’ve found having a separate workspace for work helpful, but I’ve also found that this desk does not necessarily need a long commute affixed to it. Many of us feel the same way coming out of a global pandemic. This book sought to popularize that attitude seven years before it was forced upon us all.

The book itself is short. About 30-50% of the pages are filled with illustrations, so the actual text is extremely concise. It provides more inspiration and persuasion than it does tips and tools. It does directly address common objections to remote work – like the mistaken idea that no collaboration gets done. One chapter even deals about hiring remote workers, but legal nuances are left to the lawyers, unaddressed here.

In 2024, this book is more of a historical artifact than a relevant work. Many of the counterarguments to remote work remain the same, but most of the world working in business desks are well-aware of how remote work functions. Better guides to practicalities exist in today’s bookstores. We might continue to have generational disagreements about remote work’s value, but I suspect that those arguments will fade with time. For me, commuting ten hours per week is not worth the hassle. Driving to a central office occasionally makes sense, but I can do the daily grind with excellence without city traffic. This book shone the way over a decade ago, and I’m reaping some benefits from it. ( )
  scottjpearson | Jan 20, 2024 |
V byznysové literatuře je třeba se v první řadě vymezit proti všem ostatním. Pokud chcete uspět, dělejte to jako my, a pokud neuspějete, děláte to špatně. Restart je na tom o něco lépe (byť jindy střídmý Jiří Hlavenka v úvodu čtenáře poněkud vystraší), přesto je zde jedna z mnohých řešení problémů navrhována jako jediná správná téměř na každém kroku. Ono těch varovných znaků je víc, neboť knihu, která poklidným tempem vystačí na hodinku čtení, roztahali Melvilové pomocí písma pro dalkozraké a naprosto zbytečných malůvek na téměř tři stovky stran.

Další z častých problémů, přítomných v mnohé byznysové literatuře a její časté odnoži „success stories“ je tzv. „survivorship bias“, zkreslení přeživšího. Jistě, tyto rady znějí skvěle když přicházejí od společnosti tak úspěšné, jako je 37Signals, jenže co ty další stovky firem které dělaly to samé, a dnes již dávno neexistují?

Mnohé z rad je třeba brát s velkou nadsázkou: ne všechny podniky musí nutně zůstat malé, některé naopak nejvíce prosperují až s tisícovkami zaměstnanců; nechat si nahlédnout do kuchyně může být mnohdy podnikatelská sebevražda; práce na dálku nefunguje pro každého; jedna porada pomůže mnohdy překonat desítky hodiny trvající neproduktivní trápení; ASAP je občas potřebný pro přežití. Jinde si autoři odporují, doporučují například nepřehánět to s workoholismem a dobře spát, zároveň však radí obětovat hodinu spánku, pokud si jindy nemůže na důležitý úkol najít čas (jenže pro workoholika je důležitý každý úkol.)

Jiné rady jsou sice sympatické, ovšem poněkud zjevné (začněte s tím, co máte, nepotřebujete nutně ty nejlepší nástroje; cizí peníze berte jen když už nemáte žádné jiné možnosti; plánování není exaktní věda). Pokud mě však něčím Restart vysloveně potěšil, byla to rada následující: nemyslete na prodej, myslete na budoucnost firmy. Budovat firmu s úmyslem ji v určitou dobu prodat je spekulace, budovat firmu, aby i za desítky let fungovala (i kdyby ji vlastnil někdo jiný), je investice. Restart stojí za přečtení právě proto, že tato filozofie prostupuje mnohé další rady. Jeho legendární status však příliš nechápu. ( )
  zajus | Jul 13, 2023 |
A necessary read for the modern knowledge worker. ( )
  Tohno | Feb 9, 2022 |
I was looking for advice about working from home. I was disappointed. Self-promotion is limited but it's still weird in a book. Unless this book was originally a blog, which it might've been given the (lack of) structure. ( )
  Paul_S | Dec 23, 2020 |
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Business. Nonfiction. HTML:The classic guide to working from home and why we should embrace a virtual office, from the bestselling authors of Rework  
 
??A paradigm-smashing, compulsively readable case for a radically remote workplace.???Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Quiet
 
Does working from home??or anywhere else but the office??make sense? In Remote, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the founders of Basecamp, bring new insight to the hotly debated argument. While providing a complete overview of remote work??s challenges, Jason and David persuasively argue that, often, the advantages of working ??off-site? far outweigh the drawbacks.
 
In the past decade, the ??under one roof? model of conducting work has been steadily declining, owing to technology that is rapidly creating virtual workspaces. Today the new paradigm is ??move work to the workers, rather than workers to the workplace.? Companies see advantages in the way remote work increases their talent pool, reduces turnover, lessens their real estate footprint, and improves their ability to conduct business across multiple time zones. But what about the workers? Jason and David point out that remote work means working at the best job (not just one that is nearby) and achieving a harmonious work-life balance while increasing productivity.
 
And those are just some of the perks to be gained from leaving the office behind. Remote reveals a multitude of other benefits, along with in-the-trenches tips for easing your way out of the office door where you control how your workday will unfold.
 
Whether you??re a manager fretting over how to manage workers who ??want out? or a worker who wants to achieve a lifestyle upgrade while still being a top performer professio

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