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Another newsletter update: you can now listen to each of these issues, by clicking the “Listen Online” option in the top right corner of each of these posts.

Further, the link to audio is also available in the App version of Remote Source (see instructions in this issue a couple weeks ago if you missed it).

Surprisingly, I’ve listened to more books this year than I’ve read; so if you’re anything like me and you’ve shifted a lot of your content diet to audio, I hope this helps!

One more thing: the audio voiceover is automated, so it’s not my voice you’ll be hearing 😂

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Need to Know

🤦🏻‍♂️ Salesforce goes back to office, Deel benefits
Salesforce has had quite a fall from grace — at least, from our vantage point (in the home office). The company used to be a poster child for great remote policy. After all, they bought Slack, they sponsored the Future Forum research on remote work, and Marc Benioff said Salesforce was never going back to normal office schedules.

But in a recent memo, employees were told the following: “Select employees in sales, workplace services, data center engineering and onsite support technicians under the chief information officer will be required to come to the office four to five days a week, effective Oct. 1.”

Enter Deel’s head of sales and his LinkedIn post:

It’s obvious that, in the long run, talent will flow away from companies with office attendance requirements into companies with remote-first and remote-friendly policies. Talent gets what talent wants.

Which means it’s both refreshing and validating to see Chris’ take on the future of work.

Here’s Deel’s career page if anyone’s interested in checking out their openings. And for future reference, they’re on the Remote Source job board as well. Looking forward to many more innovative companies taking talent away from dinosaurs like Salesforce. (New York Post)

😊 Remote work linked to higher job satisfaction (again!)
The Great Place to Work Institute recently shared a study showing that employees who have the option to work from home report higher job satisfaction compared to those who don't — shocker!

Flexibility in work location significantly contributes to overall happiness and workplace engagement:

Employees are 27% more likely to enjoy their job, 60% less likely to quit and 67% more likely to put in more effort if they can work from anywhere. (TechRadar)

🏆 LA will encourage WFH during 2028 Olympics
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said city organizers want their Olympics to be a “no-car Games,” with plans to drastically enhance the city’s public transportation options in the next few years.

And part of that initiative includes asking citizens to work from home, which she expects won’t be nearly as difficult a task as it would have been prior to the covid pandemic.

Optimistically, that initiative in 2028 could be an entirely new turning point (and a much less severe one than covid) for many LA employers, which may realize they actually don’t need to be forcing employees to commute as much as they were before. (Yahoo! News)

🏢 Execs prefer downsizing to RTO
As return-to-office mandates continue to face resistance, and long-term commercial real estate leases continue to be renewed and renegotiated, many executives are opting to downsize their office space instead of forcing employees back into the office.

This trend reaffirms the new acceptance by executives of remote work as a permanent fixture — indicating that many more dominoes will continue to fall in favor of remote workers and remote job seekers. (Fortune)

🔑 Keys to remote success: self-care and assertiveness
HackerNoon rounded up some of the best advice for remote workers regarding self-care, excelling in the workplace, and communication styles, which are especially important to excel in a remote setting. Some highlights:

• Communicate assertively: this means expressing your thoughts directly while maintaining respect for the intended audience

• Clear boundaries for yourself: dedicate time within each work day for yourself as needed to ensure you have time to complete individual tasks

• Be comfortable saying no to requests: if you take on too much work, it’s more likely you will produce poor results or complete your work after the expected deadlines

Being clear about what you need — for example, setting meeting times that work for you — helps you stay productive and puts you in even better position for a promotion.

And always remember to set the most important boundary of all: ensure you prioritize life outside of work and don’t just sit in your home office for 14 hours a day! (HackerNoon)

Stuff We Like

💼 Work-from-anywhere marketing jobs
Tamilore Oladipo at Buffer just launched this newsletter sharing primarily marketing jobs that hire globally:

🚐 Camper van with a workstation
Pretty cool look inside a van that this couple has been living in for four years, after starting the project during the pandemic. The workstation is one of the sleekest I’ve seen in a van, ever.

If you haven’t gotten yourself a Xebec but you’re set on going on the road, this could be a useful setup to emulate. (autoevolution)

🤝 Team-building for remote and hybrid teams
If you’re part of remote or hybrid teams at work, this list of ideas from Harvard Business Review could help your next team-building initiatives.

For example: leading structured conversations, using conversation cards, playing simulation games, and hosting in-person “team week” events are all great ideas to bring people together in ways they wouldn’t normally be able to in a remote workplace. (Harvard Business Review)