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A game-changing book about the revolutionary potential of working from home, by two experts who work - and live - together.When the COVID-19 pandemic closed offices around the world, sending millions into makeshift home offices, it was a forced compromise made under duress. But 2020 taught us that there may be another way to work: one that doesn't involve hellish commutes and set schedules that no longer make sense, especially for companies with international reach.
While working from home can make people happier and make companies more productive, it has its pitfalls. Doing it well takes some thought.
Out of Office combines Charlie and Anne's first-person experiences of moving to a rural area and working remotely - for years before the pandemic hit - to demonstrate how workers everywhere can find new ways of working anywhere.
About the author
Anne Helen Petersen is an American writer and journalist based in Missoula, Montana. She worked as a Senior Culture Writer for Buzzfeed until 2020 when she began writing a newsletter for subscribers at Substack. A former academic, Petersen received her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of three previous books, including Can’t Even: how millennials became the burnout generation (2020).
Based in Missoula, Montana, Charlie Warzel became a New York Times opinion writer at large in 2019. Before that, he was a senior technology writer at BuzzFeed News. He has been a technology writer for Adweek magazine and a producer at NBC News.
Summary
A game-changing book about the revolutionary potential of working from home, by two experts who work — and live — together.
When the COVID-19 pandemic closed offices around the world, sending millions into makeshift home offices, it was a forced compromise made under duress. But 2020 taught us that there may be another way to work: one that doesn’t involve hellish commutes and set schedules that no longer make sense, especially for companies with international reach.
While working from home can make people happier and make companies more productive, it has its pitfalls. Doing it well takes some thought. Out of Office combines Charlie and Anne’s first-person experiences of moving to a rural area and working remotely — for years before the pandemic hit — to demonstrate how workers everywhere can find new ways of working anywhere.
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Praise for Scandals of Classic Hollywood:
‘Not merely a rehash of salacious old Hollywood gossip, Petersen revivifies flattened images of Hollywood icons … Wide-ranging and surprisingly thoughtful.’
