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COMPANY SPOTLIGHT

• PandaDoc is a software tool that helps businesses create, send, and track documents like proposals, contracts, and quotes all in one place. It also lets people sign documents electronically for faster approvals without printing or mailing paperwork.

• 58 open roles, primarily in Engineering, Product Management, and Sales.

• Remote-friendly company with employees located across the world; all open positions are remote with varying country requirements.

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NEED TO KNOW

Remote work headlines:

• Tips from the Trust & Will CEO, who successfully scaled his company from a startup with 16 office-based employees to a remote-first organization with almost 100 employees across the country (FastCompany)

• Best practices for in-house lawyers working remotely (Thomson Reuters)

• Asking interview questions about Kim Jong Un immediately weeds out fraudulent remote interviewees (TechRadar)

• Remote workers are more engaged at work, but less likely to be “thriving” (Gallup)

• Some coffee shops are ditching Wi-Fi to discourage remote work (those of you in SF have been experiencing this much longer) (Axios)

• This mom has been using remote gigs to supplement her income for years, with all kinds of small tech-oriented projects (Business Insider)

• Global tech firms “ditch carrots, pull out sticks” to bring employees back to the office (CoStar)

• Almost 40% of Gen Z and Millennials would take a pay cut for remote or hybrid work (Fortune)

• BlackRock is forcing its managing directors to be in the office 5 days per week (Crain’s)

• This woman quit her healthcare IT job because forced RTO made childcare a logistical nightmare (Business Insider)

STATS

Uncomfortable office environments

The latest monthly report from WFH Research found that when employees experience more uncomfortable daily activities at the office, they have a higher number of desired remote work days per week.

While it’s not terribly surprising, it does give hard, statistically significant proof that employees know where they do their best work. And it’s another reason to give employees autonomy when choosing where they get work done.

Some of the “uncomfortable activities” include:

• Eating food in a common space (breakroom, cafeteria)

• Working under fluorescent light

• Using a public restroom

• Sharing a common workspace like an open floor plan office

• Participating in small talk with colleagues

• Working in crowded spaces

Yeah, all things that aren’t too appealing when you’re trying to do your best work. Some of these may be addressable by companies enforcing RTO, but some are always going to be a problem with office work.

Asked a different way, too, these employees wanted to continue to work remotely in the future as well:

WFH Research points out that even employees with little or no discomfort at the office still request around 2 days per week of remote work, largely because “work from home brings greater personal autonomy, time savings, and flexibility to juggle work and personal demands.”

CAREER CORNER

More workplace slang

Task masking? Snow plow managers? I guess coffee badging and quiet quitting weren’t enough. This week’s roundup of career advice includes a vocabulary lesson, too.

• “Snow plow managers” — who overload themselves with work instead of delegating — are on the rise in the US (Forbes)

• “Task masking” is the latest office TikTok trend, and it just means acting like you’re busy — seemingly done in retaliation to office mandates (Entrepreneur)

• Warren Buffett’s advice for a successful career (CNBC)

• Tracking your individual performance is becoming more important than ever (Business Insider)

• Famous working women share the advice their mothers gave them (HuffPost)

• How to avoid being labeled an ‘underperformer’ at work, according to an ex-Microsoft VP of HR (Business Insider)

• How to know if you’re ready for a career pivot (Fast Company)

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