Remote
Office Not Required
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4.2 • 34 Ratings
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- £8.99
Publisher Description
For too long our lives have been dominated by the 'under one roof' Industrial Revolution model of work. That era is now over. As remote working is becoming increasingly more flexible, there is no longer a reason for the daily roll call, of the need to be seen with your butt on your seat in the office. The technology and necessity to work remotely and to avoid the daily grind of commuting and meetings has finally come of age. Bestselling authors Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson are the masters of making it work at tech company 37signals.
Remote: Office Not Required combines eye-opening ideas with entertaining narrative. With its almost prescient content, the book will convince you that working remotely increases productivity and innovation, and it will also teach you how to get it right - whether you are a manager, working solo or one of a team. Chapters include: 'Talent isn't bound by the hubs', 'It's the technology, stupid', 'When to type, when to talk', 'Stop managing the chairs' and 'The virtual water cooler'.
Brilliantly simple and refreshingly illuminating this is a call to action to end the tyranny of being shackled to the office.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As cofounders of software company 37Signals, which provides tech architecture for telecommuters, Hansson and Fried (authors of Rework) are great believers in working remotely. Eager to proselytize, they offer a short volume extolling the virtues of telecommuting, detailing the benefits to both employer and employee, and explaining how to introduce the concept into a company. In seven sections and a conclusion, the authors attempt to provide guideposts on some of the major issues, such as how to convince management to allow employees to work outside of the office. While the book's overall organization is reasonable, the individual chapters are so brief that they give the impression that Hansson and Fried have extremely short attention spans. Although 37Signals clearly prospers under the management strategy extolled here, the authors appear unaware of the difficulties of telecommuting in some sectors (for instance, in the service industry). Hansson and Fried's amateurish and haphazard case fails to convince, not because it lacks merit, but because the authors seem to be phoning it in.
Customer Reviews
Some good ideas
Some interesting perspectives on the concept of teleworking. Whilst concise it does sometimes feel a little repetitive, but not so badly as to become annoying; it's a fun two hour read.
I was certainly left feeling like the idea of moving cities/countries without moving jobs was a lot less crazy than I'd have thought previously.
It’s one of the most inspiring books I’ve red.
It is easy to read and unbeleivable inspiring. No special vocabulary. it highlights everyday annoying little things that we all go trough and simply got used to, shows how we can get rid of it and have the most of our productivity in less working time. Strongly suggest to everyone whether you work in the office or not. Get a copy and enjoy it!
It's ok.
I had greater expectations with this book. It is not bad and worth reading as "introduction level" if you are planning to start working remotely or already is (my case). However, the whole book could be boiled down to a comprehensive magazine article. It lacks material, basically, and you can read it in one afternoon. A useful afternoon, nevertheless.