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Remote Jobs

• Finance IT Security Officer - State of Utah
• Human Resources Shared Services Coordinator - Lumen
• Community Engagement Specialist - Molina

How to build human connections in an async workplace

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The Rural Co-working and Innovation Center (RCIC) grant is funding that provides community business facilities and equipment for individuals that work remotely from rural communities. An example is the Business Technical Assistance Center in Price, a dynamic co-working space and the perfect setting for a growing business to flourish. The modern workplace necessitates collaboration, where the common areas and conference rooms in our co-working space are the perfect 

Return-to-office speed round

• Several states’ tax codes require workers to return to office in order for companies to receive tax breaks. In New Jersey, certain tax programs require workers to be in office 80% of the time, while one Texas program requires workers to work in person 50% of the time. No details from Utah at the moment, but we're keeping an eye on this. 

• Commercial landlords are increasingly defaulting on loans on office buildings as occupancy rates remain low. 

• A leaked Salesforce memo reveals plans for a mandated return-to-office, requiring three in-person days per week for “non-remote” roles, four days per week for “customer-facing” roles, and 10 days per quarter for engineers. 

• Since February 17 when Amazon leadership announced that employees would be required to return to offices a majority of the workweek, thousands of employees have joined a “Remote Advocacy” channel on the company’s Slack and have begun challenging the RTO order. 

• Disney employees submitted a petition to CEO Bob Iger last week, asking him to reconsider a return-to-office mandate that would require four days in offices each week beginning in March. The petition garnered 2,300 signatures, approximately 1% of the company’s staff. 

• During the past three years, Yelp’s fully remote workforce has moved away from office locations in San Francisco, New York, Washington, DC, and Chicago, while the number of Yelp employees located in Florida and Texas has quadrupled.

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