Even before the Covid-19 pandemic made working from home more common and prompted some people to relocate, journalists Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel did both: They moved from New York City to Montana in 2017, and from staff jobs at BuzzFeed News and the New York Times to writing full-time for Substack after that. But they haven’t just lived through work-life changes; they’ve studied them, too.
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“Remote Work Isn’t a Perk to Toss into the Mix”
A conversation about not letting work rule your life and what companies get right and wrong with flexible work.
September 28, 2021
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Summary.
As organizations debate whether and how to go back to the office, it’s worth pausing to ask bigger questions about the purpose of work — and remote work. In this Q&A with journalists Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel, HBR asks what companies have gotten right (and where they’ve stumbled) in this area; why there’s such a mismatch between employee and employer sentiment about remote work; how technology has been used and misused over the past year and a half; and why it’s so hard to rethink your relationship with your job.