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🤩 34 "Lifesaver" WFH products
Inside: Trimble is hiring engineers, sales reps, and solution architects. Plus: 34 "lifesaver" WFH products, a huge ChatGPT-made job board, coworking acquisitions, Federal RTO pushback, and more.
Good Morning,
Friendly reminder to always take career advice with a grain of salt. After all, only you know what’s in your own best interest.
The reason I say this? See these two headlines from Business Insider, both from the last few weeks, with contradicting advice if you want remote work:
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Media companies — however good they may be at reporting the news — will always be incentivized to maximize engagement and put forward storylines that encourage clicks.
So be wary! And if you really want to maximize the chances that you continue working remotely, I’d suggest you keep an eye out for remote job openings and always look for ways to develop your professional network.
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COMPANY SPOTLIGHT
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Trimble is a technology company delivering solutions that enable customers to work in new ways to measure, build, grow and move goods for a better quality of life. Trimble’s core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics connect the digital and physical worlds to improve productivity, quality, safety, transparency and sustainability.
101 open roles, primarily in Engineering, Sales, Account Management, Solutions Architecture.
11,000 employees across 40 countries, Trimble builds software that connects people across the world in various ways — so it makes sense that many of their jobs are remote.
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NEED TO KNOW
Remote work headlines:
Gen Z CEO responds to baby boomer executive’s claims that remote workers are not doing proper work: “I’m not sure why older generations think suffering through a long commute will make you more productive.”
10 easy tips for increased productivity when you’re working from home.
Explainer: what power does the President actually have to end remote work?
It’s been made clear that the Federal RTO is an attempt to reduce headcount.
Union leaders are pushing back on the Federal RTO.
People who quit jobs over RTO mandates are having a harder-than-expected time finding new remote jobs.
Portland has bucked the return-to-office trend, according to national commercial real estate company Colliers. It’s likely because (1) it has a more remote-friendly tech-oriented workforce than other cities, and (2) there are ongoing efforts to address unsheltered homelessness downtown.
The right and wrong of working multiple remote jobs, analyzed by the New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist.
Check out the top 20 job titles that have seen the largest percentage increase in remote jobs, led by Engineering, Business Development, Data Entry, Communications, and Client Services.
JOBS, JOBS, JOBS
Hiring Cafe
In a reddit post from r/ChatGPT that’s since been taken down, the Hiring.Cafe job board was featured and I am thoroughly impressed — it’s currently aggregating over 800,000 jobs (!) into a single job board, over 40,000 of which are remote.
I try to validate job boards by looking for job categories I know well and gauging whether there are relevant, accurate results. This one passed the sniff test.
There are a lot of filters — some very unique, like the distinction between physical environment: office, outdoor, vehicle, and more — so I’d strongly advise using the filters to narrow your search. Especially because on broad job boards like this, “remote” could apply to jobs that are done anywhere. Before I added more filters, “field technician,” “violations inspector,” and several others were immediately showing in the results, and those aren’t the remote jobs I’d typically search for.
Job board technology has evolved rapidly in the last several years (those who have been around longer have seen ours evolve in stride), and ChatGPT seems to have helped build this one without any substantial coding knowledge. I’m excited to see even more of these job aggregators pop up to help applicants in their job search.
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Coworking acquisitions point to flexible future
Two big announcements in the world of coworking were made recently:
Yardi, a services provider for building owners, acquired Deskpass (based in the US) and Hubble (based in the UK), both platforms for booking coworking spaces. This adds to Yardi’s existing CoworkingCafe and Kube solutions for flexible office arrangements.
CBRE, the world’s largest real estate services and investment firm, purchased the remaining 60% of the coworking office firm Industrious, having already acquired a 40% stake previously. This deal values Industrious at $800 million.
In each of these cases, market leaders expect the hybrid model to maintain or increase over time.
It’s a great sign for employees who value flexibility: all of these companies support employees who likely want to primarily work from home, but may want devoted office space every now and then to meet up with coworkers or business partners, or just get out of the house for a change of scenery.
And with these more mature flexible office solutions, more companies will surely opt for flexible office space instead of their own dedicated long-term lease offices, making remote work an even more viable option for many in the near future.
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HOME OFFICE
34 “Lifesaver” Home Office Gadgets
Buzzfeed cleverly compiled 34 products for remote workers that were all referred to as “lifesavers” in customer reviews.
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Logitech’s MX Ergonomic Mouse
A kneeling chair, an under-desk treadmill, several memory foam products, an ergonomic mouse, and stackable clear drawer organizers all made the cut along with lots of other great products.
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The featured kneeling chair sold by Amazon
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