🧐 Insights from remote work career coaches

Good Morning,

Big week in social media! If you’re active on Threads, Meta’s new Twitter competitor, you can follow us here. If you’re unfamiliar with the new social platform, here’s a brief overview.

On Threads, we’re giving away a $500 gift card to one random follower this month. The gift card will be to the coffee shop of their choice.

To enter, just follow us on Threads! You can also repost/quote the giveaway post from three days ago for one additional entry.

Curious to see how Threads’ identity forms. For now, we’ll use it to bring the best products, jobs, news bites, and more to all remote workers.

🤩 We’ve launched Favorites on our website. In these product guides, you’ll find items that remote workers can’t work without.

Product categories include Essentials, Chairs, Desks, and Sweatpants.

What products should we add that you love using daily? Reply to this email and let us know!

👏 Career coaches may be useful when searching for remote jobs. Remote work career coaches say there’s higher demand for remote jobs today than ever before. Fully-remote jobs attract 47% of applications on LinkedIn, but only account for 11% (!) of the site’s openings.

These coaches emphasize that job seekers need to stand out however they can; two examples are finding bugs in a company’s software, or building “digital proximity” to the person you want to be in touch with. (Bloomberg)

Side note: the right career coach can be a valuable investment, but please do not pay for access to a job board. Job board companies that choose to make job seekers pay are selling hope to those who are most desperate to find work.

Our job board will always be free, and we’ll always work to ensure there are a huge variety of remote jobs listed.

🧑‍💼 “Head of Remote Work” and similar titles have been growing for good reason; remote policies drastically affect employees’ impact. Multiple interviewees in this article cite employee experience as a primary focus for this role, because happy employees are better for the company. (Forbes)

📉 HR roles have had the biggest decrease in remote job openings in the past year, according to the Indeed Hiring Lab. “General corporate roles,” which include HR, Marketing, and Media/Communications have had the biggest drops in remote opportunities, while most other categories have seen remote job increases. (HR Dive)

😬 Remote workers are more stressed than in-office workers, but this is largely attributed to how they are being managed. The fix is not bringing them back into the office; rather, managers should be “reskilled to have strengths-based meaningful conversations weekly with each person” in order to help employees maintain a clear purpose and connection with the company. (Fortune)

🌍 International offsites can be half as expensive as US offsites. David Heinemeier Hansson, co-owner and CTO of 37signals, cites transportation costs as a major driver in his company’s offsite experiences, and he strongly encourages including in-person meetups in any remote company’s budget. (DHH Blog)

💵 Major CFOs have varying opinions on remote policies. One admits that remote work is polarizing, two say it has had profound positive personal and company-wide benefits, and one thinks remote work will be a failed experiment (spoiler: that CFO prefers to go into the office 5 days a week). (Wall Street Journal)

🇹🇭 This coworking space in Thailand was built for digital nomads. The HOMA Phuket Town apartments include 505 resident units, co-working space, community living space, and start at $780/month. (Traveling Lifestyle)

💼 Any Freelancers here? This newsletter from Freelance Focus provides great intel for those intent on managing their careers for themselves.

Closing out, here’s a comedy bit for you: The Hill recently wrote that “Remote work poses risks to physical health.”

Under this post on social media, all the comments were from people stating they are much healthier as a result of remote work.

The article states that people move more when commuting to an office than they do to their home workstations, which of course is true.

Claiming that “remote work” is at fault for people’s health problems - instead of any other health habits or lack thereof - is nothing more than a cheap clickbait headline.

Remember: millions of people exercise more (as we wrote about before) specifically because they work remotely.

Fortunately, remote work is prevalent enough that the public won’t let headlines like these pass as credible anymore.

Cheers,
Grant