Why You Need a Virtual Commute
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Learn about why remote workers need a "virtual commute," what happened when scientists tried growing prehistoric-sized insects, and how the solar system has not one, but two alignment planes.
Separate work from home with a "virtual commute" by author Kelsey Donk
- MacLellan, L. (2020, October). Create boundaries when working from home with commute rituals. Quartz at Work; Quartz. https://qz.com/work/1909901/how-to-design-virtual-commute-rituals-that-energize-you/
- Deighton, K. (2020, September 29). Microsoft Thinks You’ve Been Missing Your Commute in Lockdown. WSJ; The Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-thinks-youve-been-missing-your-commute-in-lockdown-11601373601
Scientists Tried Growing Prehistoric-Sized Insects, and Here's What Happened by author Reuben Westmaas
- Meganeura - Encyclopedia of Life. (2020). Eol.Org. https://eol.org/pages/10511703
- Largest Land-Dwelling “Bug” of All Time. (2011, January 15). Largest Land-Dwelling “Bug” of All Time. National Geographic Society Newsroom. https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2011/01/15/largest-land-dwelling-bug-of-all-time/
- Keim, B. (2010, September 29). How Plants May Have Made Large Predators Possible. WIRED. https://www.wired.com/2010/09/oxygen-and-evolution/
- Mosher, D. (2010, November 2). High Oxygen Levels Spawn Monster Dragonflies. WIRED. https://www.wired.com/2010/11/huge-dragonflies-oxygen/
The Solar System Has Two Alignment Planes by Grant Currin
- Second alignment plane of solar system discovered. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/nion-sap092920.php
- Higuchi, A. (2020). Anisotropy of Long-period Comets Explained by Their Formation Process. The Astronomical Journal, 160(3), 134. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aba94d
- Starr, M. (2020). Radical Discovery Suggests The Solar System Has Two Planes of Orbital Alignment. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/it-looks-like-the-solar-system-has-two-planes-of-orbital-alignment
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | And I'm Natalia Reagan. Today you learn why remote workers need a virtual commute. |
| 0:12.4 | What happened when scientists tried growing prehistoric |
| 0:15.0 | sized insects, and how the solar system has not one, but two alignment planes. |
| 0:21.0 | Let's align on some curiosity. |
| 0:23.0 | Thanks to the pandemic, I've been working from home for about eight months now. |
| 0:28.0 | And I'll admit it. I miss my commute. |
| 0:31.0 | If you're like me, at first you probably didn't mind not having to make the long trek to work. It's time saved after all. But now many Americans, 35% according to a survey, are just using that extra time to work. |
| 0:47.7 | Guilty as charged! |
| 0:50.0 | It's time to reclaim that time with a virtual commute. that is some sort of ritual at the beginning and end of each |
| 0:57.0 | work day. |
| 0:58.8 | One of the biggest champions of this idea is Microsoft. In a new update to Microsoft teams coming next year, the |
| 1:05.8 | workplace platform will ask users to set goals every morning and reflect on their day in the |
| 1:11.5 | evening. |
| 1:12.8 | This virtual commute is supposed to help homebound workers |
| 1:16.1 | mark the start and end of every work day. |
| 1:18.9 | That could help them avoid the tendency |
| 1:20.8 | to just start working as soon as they get out of bed and keep working until it's |
| 1:24.3 | time to go to sleep. Microsoft says that half of the chat activity on teams since the pandemic |
| 1:30.5 | began has happened between 5 p.m. and midnight. Before the |
| 1:35.1 | pandemic only 2% of that activity happened after normal work hours. |
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