The mouse could have been a little weightier, and looks a little chinsey and boring against the benchmark TiVo remote, but it did its job well enough.

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Entrepreneur Emile Petrone has a solution: quit your job, move to a remote location for two months, and teach yourself how to code, which is exactly what he did last July.

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By creating ecosystems that lift communities out of poverty with long-term job security in fields like remote health care, we change the conditions that cause these global crises in the first place.

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Next comes the job of winning managers and executives over to remote computing.

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Providing incentives for angel investing, venture capital and other innovation investment will have a rapid, immediate impact on job creation in everything from IT to biotech, nanotech, remote education and electric cars.

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Research on work design and job characteristics clearly indicates that a key driver of the effectiveness of remote working is the structure of the work.

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Winning the argument that your job and your skills are not needed at the office, just further justifies your company sending your job off-shore to places like India who have a massive, talented, educated and capable remote workforce.

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