The future isn’t about where we will work, but how. For
years we have struggled to balance work and life, with most of us feeling
overwhelmed and burned out because our relationship with working is broken.
اضافة اعلان
According to Charles Duhigg, author of
The Power of Habit,
Out of Office “isn’t just a book about remote work. It’s a book that helps us
imagine a future where our lives — at the office and home — are happier, more
productive, and genuinely meaningful”.
These past two years have shown us that there may be a new
path forward, one that doesn’t involve hellish daily commutes and the demands
of jam-packed work schedules that no longer make sense. But how can we realize
that future in a way that benefits workers and companies alike?
Based on groundbreaking reporting and interviews with
workers and managers around the world, Out of Office illuminates the key values
and questions that should be driving this conversation: trust, fairness,
flexibility, inclusive workplaces, equity, and work-life balance. Above all,
they argue that companies need to listen to their employees, and by doing so,
companies will promote, rather than impede, productivity and profitability.
As a society, we have talked for decades about flexible work
arrangements; this book makes clear that we are at an inflection point where
this is actually possible for many employees and their companies.
Out of Office is about so much more than zoom meetings and
hybrid schedules: it aims to reshape our entire relationship with the office.
About the authors
Charlie Warzel writes the newsletter Galaxy Brain for The
Atlantic, where he is also a contributing writer. Before that, he was a
writer-at-large for the New York Times Opinion page, and a senior technology
writer at BuzzFeed News. He was the lead writer of the Times’ Privacy Project
and co-author of One Nation Tracked, a seven-part investigative series on
smartphone location tracking, for which he was named a finalist for the 2020
Livingston Award for National Reporting.
Anne Helen Petersen writes the newsletter Culture Study, and
is the author of four books, most recently Out of the Office: The Big Problem
and Bigger Promise of Working From Home (co-written with Charlie Warzel) and
Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation.
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