Career & Communication · 45 sec
Remote work
A useful lens for working and communicating with other people.
The useful idea
- The useful idea
Remote work is the practice of working at or from one's home or another space rather than from an office or workplace.
- How it works
The practice of working at home has been documented for centuries, but remote work for large employers began on a small scale in the 1970s, when technology was developed that could link satellite offices
- Why it matters
to downtown mainframes through dumb terminals using telephone lines as a network bridge.
Why this matters
Use Remote work to make your next conversation or work decision more deliberate.
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Use Remote work to make your next conversation or work decision more deliberate.
Test your recall
Which idea belongs to the explanation of Remote work?
- The useful idea — correct
- How it works
- Why it matters
Remote work is the practice of working at or from one's home or another space rather than from an office or workplace.