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Out of Office

The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home

Author Charlie Warzel, Anne Helen Petersen
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On sale Dec 07, 2021 | 272 Pages | 978-0-593-32009-9
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  • Management > Human Resource Management > Human Resource Management
  • Management > Organizational Behavior > Organizational Behavior
  • Management > Organizational Behavior > Organizational Communication
  • Management > Organizational Behavior > Organizational Theory
  • Interdisciplinary Studies > Family Studies and Human Development > Work and the Family
  • Sociology > Social Institutions > Sociology of Work
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The future isn’t about where we will work, but how. For years we have struggled to balance work and life, with most of us feeling overwhelmed and burned out because our relationship to work is broken. This “isn't just a book about remote work. It's a book that helps us imagine a future where our lives—at the office and home—are happier, more productive, and genuinely meaningful” (Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit).

If you think you’ve been working from home recently, Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen are here to tell you otherwise. What we’ve been doing is something else entirely, a jury-rigged compromise made under the duress of a national crisis that’s satisfactory for neither the worker nor the employer. For Warzel and Petersen, the past year has revealed that there may be another path forward for work, one that doesn’t involve hellish daily commutes and the demands of jam-packed work schedules that no longer make sense. As a society, we have talked for decades about flexible work arrangements. In this book, the authors make clear that we are at an inflection point where this becomes possible for many companies and their employees.
 
Out of Office combines groundbreaking reporting and the couple’s own experiences after they made the decision to leave their desk jobs in New York City for Montana. They describe how workers and employers across America, and around the world, are finding new ways of working that make people happier and more productive, and make companies more profitable. This is a book that aims to reshape our entire relationship to the office.
 
“This book will challenge you to rethink what it takes to make remote work work—not just for companies, but for people. With lucid writing, provocative examples, and refreshing candor, Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen highlight what too many workplaces are doing wrong—and how we can start getting it right.” —Adam Grant, author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife

“Insightful and timely. . . . Never sacrificing meaningful analysis for easy answers, this is a remarkable examination of the rapidly-changing workplace.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“If you believe there’s a better way to live than refreshing your work email until you close your eyes at night, you’ll appreciate this deep dive into how workers relate to the office.” —Angela Haupt, Washington Post

“Out of Office
isn’t just a book about remote work. It’s a book that helps us imagine a future where our lives—at the office and home—are happier, more productive, and genuinely meaningful. As companies and employees imagine their post-pandemic futures, Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen have provided an essential framework for rethinking how we work.” —Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better

“Based on a historical review of workforce expectations, journalists Warzel and Petersen focus on four key areas for strategic change to improve working conditions, employee satisfaction, and wellness. . . . Prior to the pandemic, worker burnout, transience, and dissatisfaction were culminating in a call for change. The pandemic and remote-work chaos heightened awareness of the need for change, the returnto work now occurring provides the opportunity, and this book provides a roadmap.” —Booklist
© Anne Helen Petersen
CHARLIE WARZEL writes the newsletter, Galaxy Brain for The Atlantic, where he is a Contributing Writer. Before that he was a writer-at-large for the New York Times Opinion page, and a senior technology writer at BuzzFeed News. He was the lead writer of the Times' Privacy Project and co-author of 'One Nation Tracked,' a seven-part investigative series on smartphone location tracking, for which he was named a finalist for the 2020 Livingston Award for National Reporting. Before the Times, Warzel was a senior technology writer at BuzzFeed News, covering technology's biggest platforms, disinformation, and information warfare. He was the recipient of a 2019 Mirror Award for his reporting on Facebook's privacy struggles. He lives on an island off the coast of Washington state. View titles by Charlie Warzel
© Rio Chantal

ANNE HELEN PETERSEN writes the newsletter Culture Study, and is the author of four books, most recently Out of the Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working From Home (co-written with Charlie Warzel) and Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. She received her Ph.D. in media studies from the University of Texas, and was formerly a senior culture writer at BuzzFeed News. She lives on an island off the coast of Washington state.

View titles by Anne Helen Petersen

About

The future isn’t about where we will work, but how. For years we have struggled to balance work and life, with most of us feeling overwhelmed and burned out because our relationship to work is broken. This “isn't just a book about remote work. It's a book that helps us imagine a future where our lives—at the office and home—are happier, more productive, and genuinely meaningful” (Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit).

If you think you’ve been working from home recently, Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen are here to tell you otherwise. What we’ve been doing is something else entirely, a jury-rigged compromise made under the duress of a national crisis that’s satisfactory for neither the worker nor the employer. For Warzel and Petersen, the past year has revealed that there may be another path forward for work, one that doesn’t involve hellish daily commutes and the demands of jam-packed work schedules that no longer make sense. As a society, we have talked for decades about flexible work arrangements. In this book, the authors make clear that we are at an inflection point where this becomes possible for many companies and their employees.
 
Out of Office combines groundbreaking reporting and the couple’s own experiences after they made the decision to leave their desk jobs in New York City for Montana. They describe how workers and employers across America, and around the world, are finding new ways of working that make people happier and more productive, and make companies more profitable. This is a book that aims to reshape our entire relationship to the office.
 
“This book will challenge you to rethink what it takes to make remote work work—not just for companies, but for people. With lucid writing, provocative examples, and refreshing candor, Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen highlight what too many workplaces are doing wrong—and how we can start getting it right.” —Adam Grant, author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife

“Insightful and timely. . . . Never sacrificing meaningful analysis for easy answers, this is a remarkable examination of the rapidly-changing workplace.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“If you believe there’s a better way to live than refreshing your work email until you close your eyes at night, you’ll appreciate this deep dive into how workers relate to the office.” —Angela Haupt, Washington Post

“Out of Office
isn’t just a book about remote work. It’s a book that helps us imagine a future where our lives—at the office and home—are happier, more productive, and genuinely meaningful. As companies and employees imagine their post-pandemic futures, Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen have provided an essential framework for rethinking how we work.” —Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better

“Based on a historical review of workforce expectations, journalists Warzel and Petersen focus on four key areas for strategic change to improve working conditions, employee satisfaction, and wellness. . . . Prior to the pandemic, worker burnout, transience, and dissatisfaction were culminating in a call for change. The pandemic and remote-work chaos heightened awareness of the need for change, the returnto work now occurring provides the opportunity, and this book provides a roadmap.” —Booklist

Author

© Anne Helen Petersen
CHARLIE WARZEL writes the newsletter, Galaxy Brain for The Atlantic, where he is a Contributing Writer. Before that he was a writer-at-large for the New York Times Opinion page, and a senior technology writer at BuzzFeed News. He was the lead writer of the Times' Privacy Project and co-author of 'One Nation Tracked,' a seven-part investigative series on smartphone location tracking, for which he was named a finalist for the 2020 Livingston Award for National Reporting. Before the Times, Warzel was a senior technology writer at BuzzFeed News, covering technology's biggest platforms, disinformation, and information warfare. He was the recipient of a 2019 Mirror Award for his reporting on Facebook's privacy struggles. He lives on an island off the coast of Washington state. View titles by Charlie Warzel
© Rio Chantal

ANNE HELEN PETERSEN writes the newsletter Culture Study, and is the author of four books, most recently Out of the Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working From Home (co-written with Charlie Warzel) and Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. She received her Ph.D. in media studies from the University of Texas, and was formerly a senior culture writer at BuzzFeed News. She lives on an island off the coast of Washington state.

View titles by Anne Helen Petersen

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  • Out of Office
    Out of Office
    The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home
    Anne Helen Petersen, Charlie Warzel
    978-0-593-46038-2
    $29.00 US
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    Random House Large Print
    Jan 25, 2022
  • Out of Office
    Out of Office
    The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home
    Anne Helen Petersen, Charlie Warzel
    978-0-593-32010-5
    $13.99 US
    Ebook
    Knopf
    Dec 07, 2021
  • Out of Office
    Out of Office
    The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home
    Anne Helen Petersen, Charlie Warzel
    978-0-593-45426-8
    $20.00 US
    Audiobook Download
    Random House Audio
    Dec 07, 2021
  • Out of Office
    Out of Office
    The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home
    Anne Helen Petersen, Charlie Warzel
    978-0-593-46038-2
    $29.00 US
    Large Print
    Random House Large Print
    Jan 25, 2022
  • Out of Office
    Out of Office
    The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home
    Anne Helen Petersen, Charlie Warzel
    978-0-593-32010-5
    $13.99 US
    Ebook
    Knopf
    Dec 07, 2021
  • Out of Office
    Out of Office
    The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home
    Anne Helen Petersen, Charlie Warzel
    978-0-593-45426-8
    $20.00 US
    Audiobook Download
    Random House Audio
    Dec 07, 2021

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