Somewhere between the first "can everyone see my screen" and the fourth consecutive video call of the morning, every remote worker arrives at the same realization: the technology mostly works. It's everything happening around it that doesn't. Remote Work & Zoom Humor is a deadpan field guide to modern work - the version of a job that happens through a rectangle of glass, from a kitchen table that was never supposed to be permanent.
Across twenty-eight illustrated dispatches - grouped into six unflinching sections on video calls and Zoom mishaps, home office and WFH life, Slack status and async communication, meetings and calendar fatigue, remote onboarding and team culture, and productivity theater and buzzwords - this book catalogs the recurring absurdities of working from home: the cat that walks across the keyboard mid board-review, the doorbell that only ever rings during your turn to talk, the green status dot judged like a report card, and the "quick call" that never once, in recorded history, has actually been quick.
Written in a dry, self-deprecating, observational voice - think The Office meets corporate reporting hell, now working from the couch - and paired with a flat-illustration companion image for every dispatch, this collection is funny because it's true, not because it's exaggerated. Each entry closes with its own deadpan "law": a small, hard-won piece of wisdom for anyone whose commute is now measured in stairs.
Whether you're fully remote, hybrid, or just someone who has ever frozen mid-blink on a call you can't leave, Remote Work & Zoom Humor is the book you'll read in one sitting, quote in your next standup, and forward to your team's Slack channel - no caption necessary.
Somewhere between the first "can everyone see my screen" and the fourth consecutive video call of the morning, every remote worker arrives at the same realization: the technology mostly works. It's everything happening around it that doesn't. Remote Work & Zoom Humor is a deadpan field guide to modern work - the version of a job that happens through a rectangle of glass, from a kitchen table that was never supposed to be permanent.
Across twenty-eight illustrated dispatches - grouped into six unflinching sections on video calls and Zoom mishaps, home office and WFH life, Slack status and async communication, meetings and calendar fatigue, remote onboarding and team culture, and productivity theater and buzzwords - this book catalogs the recurring absurdities of working from home: the cat that walks across the keyboard mid board-review, the doorbell that only ever rings during your turn to talk, the green status dot judged like a report card, and the "quick call" that never once, in recorded history, has actually been quick.
Written in a dry, self-deprecating, observational voice - think The Office meets corporate reporting hell, now working from the couch - and paired with a flat-illustration companion image for every dispatch, this collection is funny because it's true, not because it's exaggerated. Each entry closes with its own deadpan "law": a small, hard-won piece of wisdom for anyone whose commute is now measured in stairs.
Whether you're fully remote, hybrid, or just someone who has ever frozen mid-blink on a call you can't leave, Remote Work & Zoom Humor is the book you'll read in one sitting, quote in your next standup, and forward to your team's Slack channel - no caption necessary.
