Tag: remote

There’s a hidden cost to working from home, said Megan Cerullo in CBSNews.com . “Americans routinely say they relish the ability” to do their job remotely, a perk that’s expanded dramatically since the pandemic. But the often lonely nature of working from home can take a toll on mental health, according to new research from

Dept of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications The Albanese Government is investing $11.6 million to deliver free community Wi-Fi to remote First Nations communities in the Northern Territory. Reliable connectivity supports better access to essential services like healthcare, education and training opportunities; promotes greater cultural and community connection; and enables more equitable participation for

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!Standing Out as a Remote Worker Takes a Different StrategyMy first experience as a remote worker was a disaster.Before

In Africa clean cooking is an issue of major concern, and with a billion people relying on wood and charcoal to cook their food each day there is a disproportionate number of deaths due to fine particle air pollution. FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks with Andy Herscowitz...

Imagine you’re on the moon, digging up lunar regolith. You’re focused on the task at hand when you suddenly slip and fall, right into your pickaxe. Even in the moon’s weaker gravitational field, accidents are a real possibility. A sharp pain flares up on your right side, and you call for your nearby crewmate. Is

A wildfire burning for weeks on Amsterdam Island, part of France's Southern and Antarctic Lands, has so far destroyed 55 percent of the tiny territory in the southern Indian Ocean. A haven for biodiversity, it is also home to one of the world's two research stations monitoring greenhouse gas concentration worldwide. ...

There may be something about Earth’s remote places that root many of humanity’s greatest achievements in space. John Glenn (the first American to orbit the Earth) and Neil Armstrong (the first man on the Moon) both hailed from rural Ohio towns. Yuri Gagarin (the first man in space) grew up in a small Russian village.

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is the Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup, a professor of business psychology at University College London and at Columbia University, co-founder of deepersignals.com, and an associate at Harvard’s Entrepreneurial Finance Lab. He is the author of  Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (and How to Fix It), upon which his TEDx talk was based.