Remote: Office Not Required

Kinda all fluff and dreams. The authors spend a LOT of time just talking about all of the benefits of remote work, trying to sell you to let your team work remote. I was expecting this book to be a lot more about the practicals on how to work remote! If you are looking to convince a manager to let you work remote,

A good overview of the remote work movement

A very quick and breezy read on the benefits of remote work and specific strategies to introduce it in your workplace.

The book is very clearly biased towards remote work. I liked all the actionable tips the authors included, however, I wish it would have more critically looked at the downsides and how to overcome them. Though I feel remote work has many positives, I would have liked to read a more critical view of the trend with a focus on how to address all the potential issues, as I am certain it will continue to gain steam as technology makes it easier and easier to work remotely.

This overlaps in some parts with other books of the author. This includes some fine tips and anecdotes regrading intricacies of remote work.
Also conveying that they are cool doing whatever they do, super cool almost, with extra points on how to get as cool them, and the fact that it might not work for most people.

Hallelujah. One thing of note up front: I read the Audible version of this, so I have no way of knowing how well documented it is - and given its almost memoir-based approach, those tend to be on the lighter side of documentation. But again, because of the form I consumed this book in, I just don't know.

This caveat understood up front, this text is absolutely phenomenal - and will have any office worker in 2023 scratching their heads over why virtually *any* of us are constrained to a physical location we must report into x number of times per week. This book is a decade old this year, released *well* before certain worldwide insanities led to a (sadly temporary) shift to very nearly 100% remote work for a time, and yet lays out the case for fully remote work *even with that era's tech* so clearly and so completely that one will be left wondering why any business person would ever consider forcing their staff to work in a physical office space, unless that business person happens to own said space outright and can't offload it because everyone else is going fully remote.

For those of us who love(d) working remote, this is absolutely preaching to the choir and having them sing its praises from the rafters. Even for those more opposed to remote work... read this book and try to find a reason the authors here haven't already addressed, up to and including your own personal preferences and management styles.

Indeed, the most irritating thing about this book is how long it has existed and how few business leaders in 2023 are heeding its lessons. Particularly business leaders who spent 2020 and 2021 praising their teams' increased productivity while fully remote.

So read this book. Learn why remote work really is the best work for everyone whose jobs don't involve physically touching some widget or another. And then go and spread the message ever more.

Very much recommended.

This is a must read for anyone looking for some more reasons why remote working is the way we should work now or for anyone who thinks it's absolutely not the way we should work. This book will convince you for sure :)
It's very realistically written - it presents both the upsides and downsides of remote working and describes best practices of how you would approach such a thing and how you can convince your managers into letting you do that.
It reads really well and if you liked Rework, you'll also like Remote and vice-versa.