Articles tagged "Remote work"

How a social media skeptic uses TikTok to connect with family

Learning to communicate asynchronously takes effort. It means learning to talk and work together without depending on real-time feedback. It's an essential remote work skill. Turns out it's also a really great skill for the rest of my life. 

7 sustainability tips for office workers who want to go green

What can office workers do to make their work sustainable? I asked around to see what workers and employers are doing to go green in the digital world—here's what I learned.

Returning to the office shouldn't mean returning to broken processes

Being back in the office can trigger a "let's go back to the way things are" attitude, but that might mean losing valuable new skills and procedures,

Work how you want to: How to challenge outdated workplace norms

In a lot of ways, we're still working like it's 2019. We're clinging to old work norms that, even in the before times, were already outdated.

How to create efficient distributed teams with Zapier

Build cross-platform business process automation with these tools and steps.

5 Google Calendar features every remote or hybrid team needs

Remote and hybrid work used to be an edge case. They're not anymore and major software is changing to reflect that.

Every hybrid worker should enable this Google Calendar feature

Google's work location tool will help everyone know who's in the office and who's working from home. Here's how to use it.

Zapier report: The future of work

It's clear that employees don't want to go back to the way things were pre-pandemic. So we asked the question: What is the future of remote work? What perks do employees really want? And what will help keep employee retention high? 

13 work from home lunch ideas worth taking a break for

In a lunch rut? Here's what remote workers like to eat mid-day.

Lead your remote team like a magician by conquering these 5 cognitive biases

To lead in a remote environment, you have to understand your own cognitive biases, the shortcuts your mind takes to manage the overwhelming amount of information you navigate every day.