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👨🏻‍⚖️ Would legally-allowed WFH work?

Inside: Omada Health is hiring in engineering, marketing, and product. Plus: legal options in a RTO with relocation, Google ex-CEO slanders WFH, remote work's carbon footprint, and more.

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September 29, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

Good Morning,

Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt is again slandering remote work, saying it doesn’t help the US in our tech competition with China.

His argument is really more about US workers’ number of hours worked, and the fact that we should all collectively disregard “work-life balance” in order to maintain our position as a world economic leader.

Lots to say about that, but for now I’ll just say that nobody in their right mind is going to read that and think, “you know, he’s right — I should skip my kid’s music recital tonight and work a couple more hours for the sake of our country’s future.”

Ironically, if everyone who could prove they’re more efficient while working remotely were actually allowed to do so, we might get a little closer to Schmidt’s competitive goals.

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NEED TO KNOW

Remote work headlines:

  • Remote work’s carbon footprint is more nuanced than just taking lots of cars off the road (World Economic Forum)

  • Would a legal right to work from home — as being proposed in Victoria, Australia — ever work in the United States? (Forbes)

  • Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says working from home doesn’t help the US in our efforts to compete with China, whose employees work much longer hours (Fortune)

  • Pay is a huge draw for the few prisoners who are able to work remote jobs from behind bars (NPR)

  • Legal options when an employer changes its policy and requires remote workers to relocate to a city with an office (Moneywise)

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