This page is where I keep a growing collection of articles about anything to do with working from home, solo working, self employment, wellbeing and mental health, that I think will be useful for readers of SOLO, and for members of the Solo Collective. Some will be behind paywalls, some will have limited access, some are in journals - but I’ll post everything because sometimes it’s worth signing up or subscribing, to read something really valuable.

A Way Forward For Working Parents, from the Harvard Business Review. Fascinating piece by a parenting coach, about how and why parenting in a pandemic is hard, and how to move forward.

Wondering How You’ll Get Through a Pandemic Winter? Try These 9 Tips to Stay Connected and Motivated, from The Muse and by Thrive Global’s head of content.

Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce. Here’s what it found about meetings, culture, workdays, and engagement. Several messages here: one, study how your remote team is doing or you won’t know whether remote is working for them or not, or if they’re OK (but don’t surveil them); two, remote workers are working longer hours and using tech more (no surprises there); three, the boundaries between work and non-work life are becoming dangerously blurred and that ‘flexible work’ is starting to mean ‘work all the time’. Four - not all companies are the same, so don’t apply data gleaned from one company to your own, without thinking deeply about it first.