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JJ Reeder

@jjs.business
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(she/they) I post a lot about remote work & org psychology. I happen to believe that a good job can make your life better, and that workplaces can be fulfilling & inclusive places. Director of Remote Org Effectiveness at Upwork, and obviously, an idealist

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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 03/02/2025
Great leaders don’t fear remote work—they fear the absence of trust, clarity, and accountability. The problem isn’t where people work, it’s how we lead them.
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 02/02/2025
Is your company remote-first? Don't assume you can operate like other distributed organizations. Define your unique strategy and reap the rewards. #HybridWork #RemoteStrategy
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To build an effective remote-first operating model, start with why – "JJ" Jessica Reeder
To be successful in running a distributed company, you need more than a transformation plan. You need a model that connects company strategy to distributed work, and transfers agency to individuals,…
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 30/01/2025
A toxic culture in the office will stay toxic remotely. Changing the location won’t change the outcome—only leadership will. #remotework
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 28/01/2025
I'm going to need all my Gen Xers to go right now to your Docs settings and switch your format to pageless. Yes by default. No bro, nobody wants to see your page breaks and like, little tiny text in the footer. No dude I'm serious. They're not gonna print it, buddy.
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 27/01/2025
Great communication makes work frictionless. And when work is enjoyable, people stay.
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 26/01/2025
Remote work doesn't make collaboration harder - it exposes bad habits. The real mission is creating the structures that make collaboration seamless, regardless of distance.
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 23/01/2025
Leaders often underestimate the impact of unclear expectations. For remote teams, confusion isn’t just inefficient—it’s destructive. #remotework
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YoavCodes @yoav.codes · 21/01/2025
I remember once a startup I worked at hired an ergonomics consultant to fix our posture and they spent the whole day taking measurements and judging us and then they left the profession and we never got any recommendations. just a pile of shrimps shipping features to millions of users.
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 21/01/2025
Communication is the primer for culture. Without effective communication, culture work won’t stick.
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 20/01/2025
What are your thoughts on async video messages? I know they're becoming the norm at many remote-first companies, but personally, I hate watching a 3-minute video when a quick note would have done the job. #asyncwork
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 19/01/2025
In-person moments for remote-first teams are crucial, but don't neglect culture-building in the day-to-day. Keep the global team spirit alive by weaving connectedness into all parts of the employee experience. #TeamBuilding #RemoteCulture
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To build an effective remote-first operating model, start with why – "JJ" Jessica Reeder
To be successful in running a distributed company, you need more than a transformation plan. You need a model that connects company strategy to distributed work, and transfers agency to individuals,…
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Dror Poleg @drorpoleg.com · 18/01/2025
The year is 2025 and office vacancies just hit a record high. Bosses can talk big about RTO, but the bottom line is more of them are letting go of their offices.
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Santi Garcia @santigarcia.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
US office vacancies hit a record high last year: 20.4% of office space in the top 50 metro areas is now empty. How much is this driving return-to-office #RTO mandates? #FutureOfWork #RemoteWork www.axios.com/2025/01/10/o...
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Office vacancies hit a record high despite RTO push
Some firms have called workers back without having enough office space for them.
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 16/01/2025
Ah the Elon strategy
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
i mean,,, yes? that is usually what it entails
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 16/01/2025
This is why I just spent 5 minutes putting on extra layers so I can go breathe the 24-degree (-4 C) air for 30 minutes. It’s worth the effort on almost any day.
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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We'll never get another like him.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Return to office mandates for tech work are largely to satisfy: 1) organizations that don’t know how to evolve or manage effectively. 2) senior workers who made a career out of looking busy rather than actually working.
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 16/01/2025
“How AI is adopted in the workplace matters. We need to consider the types of tasks it takes over, whether it is human-centric in design and whether it promotes meaningful work.” ⬆️
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 15/01/2025
Honestly? This is the tech industry reaching its full, bloated maturity. Like media and publishing before it, tech is now big enough that certain corporations are required to play craven in order to maintain their level of scale. I also see the preemptive layoffs, just in case 👀
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 15/01/2025
I took a social media break, did anything happen? Seems like no news since mid-December right? 👍
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Carl Benedikt Frey @carlbfrey.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The rise in WFH productivity boosts demand for housing, driving up prices. But workers in jobs that can’t be done remotely don’t see the same benefits. Higher housing costs hit them harder, reducing their welfare.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
cant wait to flash all of you constantly
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 06/01/2025
I keep thinking: it's easy to have a great company culture when the business is doing well. But what companies managed to keep morale (& retention) high during a downturn? The current period is going to show us who's nailing it on culture 👀
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 04/01/2025
How to empower individuals and transfer agency: connect company strategy to everyday actions. #Empowerment #RemoteWork
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To build an effective remote-first operating model, start with why – "JJ" Jessica Reeder
To be successful in running a distributed company, you need more than a transformation plan. You need a model that connects company strategy to distributed work, and transfers agency to individuals,…
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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
For the love of Dog, can we all just learn a TINY BIT about how work actually works? Developers are not coding away on their own tiny islands. AWS is not an archipelago of Robinson Crusoe. Collaboration IS the work.
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 06/12/2024
There’s interesting potential for AI to do work for humans. But let’s not uh… act like being human is a bad thing
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 05/12/2024
Do not like remote work becoming a politicized issue. 👎
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Brian Elliott @elliottsf.com · 04/12/2024
Doesn't appear (yet) to be a lot of CEOs following Amazon and @washingtonpost.com back into offices 5 days a week. Latest from Flex Index shows that we're at stasis: 2/3rd of firms have some form of workplace flexibility that allows work from home at least a couple days a week
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Institute for the Future of Work @ifow.org · 05/12/2024
Our Good Work Algorithmic Impact Assessment is an aligned tool, developed with funding from the ICO, focused on workplace applications of AI and algorithmic systems. Find more about it here, and our work with firms to support responsible AI adoption: www.ifow.org/publications...
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Good Work Algorithmic Impact Assessment - IFOW
Guidance for employers and engineers to involve workers and their representatives in the design, development and deployment of AI systems.
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 05/12/2024
Good example. Flexible scheduling should ideally be managed on the worker side, but employers often need predictable coverage. Employers usually need to ask workers what they want/need, but responses are likely unreliable (I tell my boss what they want to hear).
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 05/12/2024
I woke up this morning and said "brr." #lingsky, any thoughts on the #etymology of that interjection? Feels like it started as onomatopoeia, maybe back when the r would have been a trill?
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patrick star from spongebob squarepants is crying in the snow while wearing a hat .
ALT: patrick star from spongebob squarepants is crying in the snow while wearing a hat .
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 26/11/2024
Future of Work starter pack is live! Filled with people who are active on Bluesky and have enough expertise in the field that I personally want to read their posts 😎 go.bsky.app/4nEu3PY I surely missed people. Please tag anyone who belongs here! #futureofwork #remotework
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 05/12/2024
Wardley maps are an intriguing way to visualize product/engineering strategy. Just found my way here via the GitLab Wardley map, and now I'm deep diving! Thank you for sharing your process @lethain.com. lethain.com/wardley-gitl...
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Matthew Cappucci @matthewcappucci.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
#TSUNAMI WARNING for San Francisco Bay Area! #SFO #SanFran #BayArea We don't have information yet for how big the rise in water levels may be. Estimated to hit Bay Area around 12:10 PM – 1 hour from now! Fort Bragg 1110 PST Dec 5 Crescent City 1120 PST Dec 5
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 05/12/2024
Trust is everything! Having a low-trust culture is one of the factors that will block your company from effectively working remotely. I’m always trying to understand more about the mechanics of trust. Looking forward to reading what @mindaharts.bsky.social has to say.
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The leader's cheat sheet: 11 reasons your company should NOT work remotely (yet)
Remote work shouldn't be an experiment, but many leaders don't have the ability to accurately gauge whether their team can function outside an office. This article explores the practical, cultural, an...
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 05/12/2024
Reading about the Great Depression has been a good way for me to develop a more nuanced lens on current events and trends.
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 05/12/2024
GenAI is nowhere near reliable as a research or fact-checking tool. You can use it to draft ideas, but news flash: you still have to use your own brain. For now.
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HR is JUST @hrisjust.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Who you calling atrocious?
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 05/12/2024
Just got followed by this atrocious AI account. Tag yourself: I'm omfoce snacks.
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Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 27/11/2024
Reformatting this whole thing. Blocklist for Hugging Face, the AI company that's proudly stealing your tweets
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 27/11/2024
Don’t do this
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 26/11/2024
WOW This book is going to radicalize more than a few wine moms. www.goodreads.com/book/show/53...
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The Four Winds
Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has…
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Heejung Chung @heejungchung.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Another starter pack you want to follow all.
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 26/11/2024
Future of Work starter pack is live! Filled with people who are active on Bluesky and have enough expertise in the field that I personally want to read their posts 😎 go.bsky.app/4nEu3PY I surely missed people. Please tag anyone who belongs here! #futureofwork #remotework
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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The network technology giant Cisco offers to turn Wi-Fi access points installed in offices and other buildings into a system that tracks the location of employees, customers, smartphones, laptops and other devices for a wide range of purposes #workersurveillance I took a deep dive ⬇️ [thread]
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JJ Reeder @jjs.business · 25/11/2024
Even more powerful: this helps you truly understand that the job exists as an opportunity for you to get where you’re going. Once you start thinking about your career in that way, never let it go.
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