Alberto Cardinalli

Remote work has been a trend for a long time as Internet technology inundated homes. Working as a developer in health IT, I have often troubleshot issues from home via my laptop for over a decade. Writing software, I’ve interacted with people all over the globe from my kitchen table or personal office for a long time. The recent COVID pandemic forced the wider workplace to catch up with these trends. As the health threat subsided, many workers questioned why a commute was even necessary and why companies needed to pay for expensive real estate.

This book seeks to offer concise but solid advice on this topic. It seeks to be a didactic guide for those who may be more hesitant to embrace this “new normal.” Like me, Alberto Cardinalli had experience with remote work situations well before the pandemic. Thus, the pandemic was not a major shot in his work paradigm but rather an acute deepening of already existing experience. He does not attempt to argue a point but rather to equip readers with the concepts to mentally engage new workplace dynamics.

To be honest, this book contained little that I had not experienced in my workplace already. Again, I work in software development, an industry at the cutting edge of remote-work trends. I found some of the footnotes helpful (even though the URLs were almost unreadable in light grey). In less than one hundred pages, Cardinalli provides a short but reliable overview. Still, I wish he would have gone deeper into a few topics instead of just maintaining a high-level overview. Such an approach might have brought more readers to this work and enhanced its uniqueness. I’m concerned that this book lacks finding an original audience or the right market. Perhaps it can supplement other efforts to teach managers how to transition to this new reality.… (plus d'informations)