Work From Home

December 2025

• Dec 4, 2025TechnologyRemote Tech Careers: Working Effectively from AnywhereThe word remote covers four very different arrangements, and only two of them support a career built on distributed work. Where an office-first company merely permits remote, decisions happen in hallways and remote staff are structurally disadvantaged on visibility. Bloom's 2015 randomized trial at Ctrip, published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, found 13 percent higher productivity from home, driven by quieter conditions and the recovered commute.20 MIN11.2k

November 2023

• Nov 8, 2023Work SkillsImpacts of Remote Work on Cognitive and Psychological HealthWhat remote work does to cognition, built on Jeremy Bailenson's 2021 account of the four mechanisms behind Zoom fatigue: unnatural sustained gaze, constant self-view, restricted movement and the effort of decoding degraded nonverbal signals. Hiding self-view removes the mirror effect that raises self-monitoring all day. Sonnentag identifies psychological detachment as the strongest predictor of next-day energy.13 MIN6.2k

January 2023

• Jan 28, 2023CultureRemote Work Explained: Benefits, Challenges, and the DataBloom's team measured actual reviews, promotions and code output rather than self-reports, and the company adopted hybrid as default afterward. The detail that decides whether it works is coordination, because the office is worth the commute only if your team is there that day. Remote work also reclaims real time, with the average US commute at about 27.6 minutes each way, roughly 4.5 hours a week.22 MIN13.7k