Aug 20, 2026
A little August episode to celebrate the fact that I (Pilar) have finished the manuscript for All the World's a Workplace!
I realise half-way through the recording that while the work is location agnostic, the people are not. (It took me over a decade to articulate this!)
[0:00] Welcome, and bringing
back the show's original tagline
[0:39] The book's done, to be published soon: All the World's a
Workplace
https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/coming-soon
[3:30] Why context is everything (and why the book got so long)
[5:39] How the book is structured
[6:27] "The work is location agnostic. The people are not."
[7:57] Office mandates made by people who like the office
[9:23] The "reset button"
[11:24] Getting clear on what "hybrid" actually means
[13:05] Netflix, Reed Hastings and the reversals we never hear
about
[15:59] Shakespeare, Fakespeare and the dilemmas
[18:12] Wrapping up, and what's coming next
You can read an article on Netflix’s current take on remote
here: https://wfa.team/blog/netflix-remote-work-from-anywhere-policy/
(And note that I made a mistake when I quoted the CEO saying that
remote work is a pure negative. I said something else!)