Remote: Office Not Required
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- Create Date：2021-05-21 10:54:17
- Update Date：2025-09-06
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- Author：Jason Fried
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Summary
De los autores de Reinicia • Un libro igualmente revolucionario y lleno de sentido común • Una nueva forma de trabajar El paradigma de la Revolución industrial que debía realizar todo el trabajo bajo un mismo techo está declinando rápidamente debido a las nuevas tecnologías que permiten a los trabajadores colaborar entre sí sin estar físicamente en contacto。 El nuevo paradigma es “llevar el trabajo a los trabajadores y no los trabajadores al trabajo”。 Las empresas que adoptan este sistema tienen múltiples ventajas， especialmente en lo que hace a satisfacción de los trabajadores que tienen flexibilidad para hacer su trabajo cuando más les conviene con sus necesidades personales Además el trabajo en remoto， hace que las empresas puedan ahorrar grandes cantidades de dinero en infraestructura。 Los autores no hablan teóricamente， sino basados en sus propias experiencias y en las de decenas de casos que se cuentan en el libro。
Reviews
Jose Sanchez
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Excelente libro y mas vigente que nuncaMe gusto lo ligero de leer pero no pierde profundidad un gran guía para muchas compañías。Excelente guía para tener una implementación de trabajo remota exitosa
Rocky
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Innovative by the time of the release， however， there's nothing new to learn from the book nowadays。 Remote is the new normal。 Innovative by the time of the release， however， there's nothing new to learn from the book nowadays。 Remote is the new normal。 。。。more
Molly Pearman
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The first part is just trying to convice you to have your company start implementing remote work， but toward the end， they give some tips to make it work which I really appreciate
AnhDuc
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Not much to learn， it would be a more valuable read before the pandemic。The book is from many years ago， so I like how the company values the style of working remotely at such an early time。
Matthew Gallant
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“A tipping point for remote work is coming。”Probably not what they had in mind 😬
Bharath
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A good， easy-to-consume book about 'Remote work。 One key thing to note - The book talks only about the 'positives' of remote work & acts as a tool for the reader to convince someone （say the leadership teams in his organization） to start remote work。 But it does not talk about how to work better 'remotely'。 A good， easy-to-consume book about 'Remote work。 One key thing to note - The book talks only about the 'positives' of remote work & acts as a tool for the reader to convince someone （say the leadership teams in his organization） to start remote work。 But it does not talk about how to work better 'remotely'。 。。。more
Tony
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It might have been helpful before the pandemic but in post pandemic 2021 it reads as really naive。 Work from home is terrible。
bellatrix begins
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I'll give 2 stars for the effort of having written this book， which could have been a long essay or an article。 The book can be more aptly renamed as "Remote: Office Not Required in an Ideal World Where the Employer Does Not Expect You to Sit in Front of the Open Webcam at Certain Hours Every Day or Tell You You Can Only Work from Your Designated Address"。 Examples from inside the book may follow， if I care to spare more of my time and update this review。 I'll give 2 stars for the effort of having written this book， which could have been a long essay or an article。 The book can be more aptly renamed as "Remote: Office Not Required in an Ideal World Where the Employer Does Not Expect You to Sit in Front of the Open Webcam at Certain Hours Every Day or Tell You You Can Only Work from Your Designated Address"。 Examples from inside the book may follow， if I care to spare more of my time and update this review。 。。。more
Jacques Bezuidenhout
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In hind sight they got it all right。Reading this book in 2013 I think would've been a different story。All we needed was a pandemic to force remote work。Everyone had to adjust and go through the teething problems。Comparing our current experience with what 37 Signals said back in 2013/2014 and having had to deal with Yahoo banning remote work at the time， I think they did an outstanding job to promote it， and get it right。 In hind sight they got it all right。Reading this book in 2013 I think would've been a different story。All we needed was a pandemic to force remote work。Everyone had to adjust and go through the teething problems。Comparing our current experience with what 37 Signals said back in 2013/2014 and having had to deal with Yahoo banning remote work at the time， I think they did an outstanding job to promote it， and get it right。 。。。more
Lina Kvizikevičiūtė
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Quite a funny read during pandemic。 Some of the tricks are old already， but overall advices for remote work did not change
Hooman Askari
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Not very relevant anymore。 It was an important book at some point though。
Gustavo Millen
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Some interesting quotes:"[。。。] the number one counter to distractions is interesting， fulfilling work""The best cultures derive from actions people actually take， not the ones they write about in a mission""[。。。] there's no such thing as a one-hour meeting。 If you're in a room with five people for an hour， it's a five-hour meeting""[。。。] in hiring for remote-working positions， managers should be ruthless in filtering out poor writers""The best workers over the long term are people who put in sus Some interesting quotes:"[。。。] the number one counter to distractions is interesting， fulfilling work""The best cultures derive from actions people actually take， not the ones they write about in a mission""[。。。] there's no such thing as a one-hour meeting。 If you're in a room with five people for an hour， it's a five-hour meeting""[。。。] in hiring for remote-working positions， managers should be ruthless in filtering out poor writers""The best workers over the long term are people who put in sustainable hours。 Not too much， not too little" 。。。more
gingerbbm
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Inspiring and idealistic， in equal parts。 Encouraging to think that the challenges of fully remote work aren’t insurmountable but not a practical guide to make it happen in larger organisations。
Eryn
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Quick， timely read。 Enjoyed the illustrations。
Marcell Nimführ
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This is frightfully bad。 Let my do a complete summary: Companies always have excuses for not letting you work remote。 That is bad！ You can do it！ Take care of yourself。 Chat with video on。 Thank you for buying this pointless excuse for a book！
Arvind Thyagarajan
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Office on the go！ The pandemic ushered digital transformation makes this book more relevant than ever in 2021。 Though some of the technologies here have been replaced by more advanced ones， the core and crux of remote still remains the same。 Remote : Here to stay！
Vladimir Sechkarev
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Я прочитал эту книгу в начале пандемии， когда все офисные работники отправились на самоизоляцию: мне не нравилось работать удаленно， и я надеялся， что книга откроет мне глаза на какие-то аспекты моего нового образа жизни， которые я раньше не замечал。 У нее не получилось — это книга о том， насколько круто иметь выбор， идти сегодня в офис или нет。 С чем и так сложно не согласиться。Зато она короткая и легкая。 Наверное， это та книга， которую вы можете подсунуть своему боссу， если он заставляет вас в Я прочитал эту книгу в начале пандемии， когда все офисные работники отправились на самоизоляцию: мне не нравилось работать удаленно， и я надеялся， что книга откроет мне глаза на какие-то аспекты моего нового образа жизни， которые я раньше не замечал。 У нее не получилось — это книга о том， насколько круто иметь выбор， идти сегодня в офис или нет。 С чем и так сложно не согласиться。Зато она короткая и легкая。 Наверное， это та книга， которую вы можете подсунуть своему боссу， если он заставляет вас все время торчать в офисе。 Он ее прочитает （наверное）， все поймет （конечно же） и отпустит вас работать домой （определенно）。 Жизнь именно так и работает。 。。。more
Marco Neves
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I find this book interesting， specially when contrasted with the more recent works from the authors， like "it doesn't need to be crazy at work" and "shaped up"， that show that the authors kept moving on the direction they preach。 I find this book interesting， specially when contrasted with the more recent works from the authors， like "it doesn't need to be crazy at work" and "shaped up"， that show that the authors kept moving on the direction they preach。 。。。more
Scott Suine
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Great read although a little dated nowGood strategies although post pandemic this is a little dated now。 Be good to see a new edition for the 2020’s
Vitor Cavalcanti de Albuquerque
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The book has great tips for adopting remote work， but unfortunately it became a bit dated since most of us were forced to go remote。 Nevertheless， this is a must-read for managers and workers who wants to get the best out of it and improve performance and work-life balance。 Also it is a small book and you should finish it really quick。
Ghe
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Not a fan of the format， but it has bits & pieces of useful information。It is an easy to read book that offers a few ideas on how to manage our work-life and collaborations in the "work from home pandemic"。 Not a fan of the format， but it has bits & pieces of useful information。It is an easy to read book that offers a few ideas on how to manage our work-life and collaborations in the "work from home pandemic"。 。。。more
Tech Nossomy
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More of a white paper than a book， this work is filled with platitudes and like most white papers， each page of text alternates with a page of a drawing in an attempt to emphasise the point。 The target audience are office workers， hence many people in the workforce need not read this work。 Overdosing on the cliches and rhetorical questions， here is some evidence that the author（s） never made an attempt to take the reader seriously:* "The missing upgrade is for the human mind。 This book aims to p More of a white paper than a book， this work is filled with platitudes and like most white papers， each page of text alternates with a page of a drawing in an attempt to emphasise the point。 The target audience are office workers， hence many people in the workforce need not read this work。 Overdosing on the cliches and rhetorical questions， here is some evidence that the author（s） never made an attempt to take the reader seriously:* "The missing upgrade is for the human mind。 This book aims to provide that upgrade。 We’ll illuminate the many benefits of remote work。"Depending on your definition of illuminate， this book does indeed exactly that， but it says more about the author than the contents of this white paper。* "If working remotely is such a great idea， why haven’t progressive companies been practicing it all along？ It’s simple: the technology just wasn’t there。"Untrue: Lotus and Compuserve were around well before the company was founded and even before eCommerce was a household term。* "The luxury privilege of the next twenty years will be to leave the city。"True for some cities， but the global trend is still towards urbanisation。* "So it really doesn’t matter that Multinational Inc。， forbids its employees to work from home。 In fact， you should be happy if it is still clinging to the old ways of working。 It will just make it that much easier to beat them。"Beating the competition is dependent on so many factors that the criterion of whether one of them adopted working remotely or not is barely the point。 Beating the competition is not even a goal for most companies。* "Confidence is how great ideas evolve from being fringe crazy to common knowledge。"Untrue: open source project teams have been working remotely since inception， which happens to be covered in a later chapter， but that doesn't mean they can be branded fringe-crazy。* "While natural disasters are infrequent， personal disasters strike with regularity， and at such times the ability to work remotely is essential。"Untrue: a common feature of a disaster is that routine work is not possible， regardless of whether it is performed remotely。* "Being a good writer is an essential part of being a good remote worker。"The paper is so poorly written， that this is a self-defeating statement。No mention is made of freelancer websites and their role in setting up a remote working environment。 Also the omission of mentioning health and safety regulations for remote workers seems to suggest the author is unfamiliar with the intricacies of remote working。 In fact， this paper reads like it was written by an intern， and only afterwards a page or two redacted by the people listed as authors on the cover。 。。。more
Alberto Romero
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Great selling book for remote work although most people is remote working during the pandemic。 Anyways， good advises around how to stay productive being remote and how to stay mentally healthy
Richard Lewis
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A good overview of the advantages of remote workingI appreciated the succinct arguments， each presented in a compact section。 At this time of lockdown， it was good to be reminded of the plus sides of working from home。
Artem
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Perhaps， it was late to read this book。 I was looking for answers to questions I have after experiencing working remotely for about a year with all colleagues working remotely， and this book has answers but。。。 but those answers consider another "norm"。 I think， working remotely during global pandemic with recommended restrictions on people's gathering outside your household is somewhat different。 Perhaps， it is not even about work。Now， when many experienced working remotely， some chapters are no Perhaps， it was late to read this book。 I was looking for answers to questions I have after experiencing working remotely for about a year with all colleagues working remotely， and this book has answers but。。。 but those answers consider another "norm"。 I think， working remotely during global pandemic with recommended restrictions on people's gathering outside your household is somewhat different。 Perhaps， it is not even about work。Now， when many experienced working remotely， some chapters are no longer that relevant （for instance， about convincing it is possible， recommendation to work from cafeteria is not relevant during pandemic）。 I was looking for more in depth analysis of efficient work organization， management and effective collaboration when literally everyone is remote。 。。。more
Anthony Avedissian
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The book reads like a collection of blog posts rather than an actual body of work。 The chapters end abruptly and are generally quite shallow。 As a result， I found the book to be quite underwhelming。 Going remote poses genuine and unique challenges and difficulties。 I was hoping this book might offer me practical solutions to these in order to grow and scale my businesses。 Instead， the book is a series of counterarguments to common objections to remote work - geared towards execs， managers or low The book reads like a collection of blog posts rather than an actual body of work。 The chapters end abruptly and are generally quite shallow。 As a result， I found the book to be quite underwhelming。 Going remote poses genuine and unique challenges and difficulties。 I was hoping this book might offer me practical solutions to these in order to grow and scale my businesses。 Instead， the book is a series of counterarguments to common objections to remote work - geared towards execs， managers or low-level employees。 But， as someone already on-board with remote work， this was quite reduntant。 It's ironic， since I feel most readers are already convinced of remote work and want to embrace it further。。。The authors came across as pompus patriarchal prescribers of their very particular variety of work， incapable of looking beyond their specific experiences or drawing on analogies outside of their company - 37 Signals。 I found them to be quite narrow minded and possibly even self-promotional to a counterproductive extent。 I felt it might've been written in 2003， not 2013， at times。 With that being said， it might， perhaps， be an indication of just how far we have come in 8 years （I write this in 2021）。 Moreover， if you're someone on the fence about remote work， this book is solid。 If you want help convincing your team， your manager， or your company executives to work remotely， this book is solid。 If everyone is already on-board with remote work and needs practical solutions to existing and possible future problems that have or may arise， this book is a bit of a waste of time。 。。。more
Juan Menacho Abularach
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Libro muy práctico que apunta a convencer sobre las ventajas del teletrabajo。 La forma de exponer los argumentos es bastante clara。 También menciona los posibles problemas que pueden encontrar las organizaciones al momento de cambiar de métodos de trabajo y ofrece las posibles soluciones que se pueden adoptar。 Según los autores， lo que más se podría resentir es la cultura organizacional por la falta de socialización y contacto en la "vida real"， sin embargo， los beneficios， tanto para la organiz Libro muy práctico que apunta a convencer sobre las ventajas del teletrabajo。 La forma de exponer los argumentos es bastante clara。 También menciona los posibles problemas que pueden encontrar las organizaciones al momento de cambiar de métodos de trabajo y ofrece las posibles soluciones que se pueden adoptar。 Según los autores， lo que más se podría resentir es la cultura organizacional por la falta de socialización y contacto en la "vida real"， sin embargo， los beneficios， tanto para la organización como para los trabajadores son muy superiores a los pequeños problemas que pueden surgir， pero básicamente， esos problemas tienen que ver más con un cambio de mentalidad。 No poder trabajar en remoto， especialmente para los trabajadores del conocimiento， es una tara mental。 。。。more
João Carlos Pires
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Nem sei bem por onde começar， dado que este livro me deixou， de muitas formas， sem palavras。 Não sei se é mais surpreendente a visão futurista com que o livro é escrito （não foi assim há tanto tempo - 2013 -， mas não deixa de ter sido há tempo suficiente para o teletrabalho ainda não ser a realidade que é hoje） ou se a argumentação sobre as vantagens e a estratégia de combate às desvantagens。 Certo é que é um "must"， é um livro atual e sê-lo-á nos próximos anos。 É a prova de que o teletrabalho é Nem sei bem por onde começar， dado que este livro me deixou， de muitas formas， sem palavras。 Não sei se é mais surpreendente a visão futurista com que o livro é escrito （não foi assim há tanto tempo - 2013 -， mas não deixa de ter sido há tempo suficiente para o teletrabalho ainda não ser a realidade que é hoje） ou se a argumentação sobre as vantagens e a estratégia de combate às desvantagens。 Certo é que é um "must"， é um livro atual e sê-lo-á nos próximos anos。 É a prova de que o teletrabalho é possível， tem vantagens e chega a ser muito mais produtivo e eficiente em muitas situações。 A juntar a tudo isto， o livro presenteia-nos com uma dose de humor apurado e que certamente deixará futuros leitores com sorrisos de orelha a orelha。 A única questão menos atual é a de que a visão do teletrabalho， segundo os autores， é feita numa perspetiva diferente da que vivemos。 Ao passo que enumeram as vantagens de introduzir gradualmente este método， neste momento fomos todos forçados a adotá-lo de forma imediata， quer queiramos quer não。 Ainda assim， sem muito spoiler， os autores enumeram as crises pandémicas e as doenças como um dos motivos que poderá conduzir ao teletrabalho。 E não é que conduziu mesmo？ Recomendo vivamente， claro！ 。。。more
Ashley
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Good read for managersExplores how to work effectively and think differently in remote work environments。 I found it helpful when approaching team mgmt in the remote setting。 Focus on work / output not hours at a desk！
Jonathan
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