Happy Friday everyone,
We’re preparing for a massive blizzard in Boston tomorrow so I’m preparing by ordering the essentials (🍷&🍕). Another essential would be some solid reading material, hopefully this post gives you a few new tabs to open over the weekend.
Do you have a longread to recommend? Add it in the comments.
Onto the update!
🏆 Okta’s Business at Work 2022 Report
This is my favorite annual report and it’s not even close. Okta showcases growth trends of software adopted by their customers across a slew of industries.
This is a 53-page beauty with tons of visualizations.
Since they started posting this in 2017 I have wanted to see Robin make the cut and I could tell we’d be close last year.
Well, we finally made it into the report under a new section for Workplace Management tools.
The report goes into multiple industries, categories and trends and is worth reading just to learn more about the SaaS industry overall.
Can’t wait to see where we are in 2023, I have high hopes for the headline chart of “Fastest Growing Apps” 📈
🦉 Owl Labs: State of Remote Work
The team dives deep into a remote-first mindset, this report is a beautiful interactive webpage with vibrant graphs and more stats than I can count.
Some highlights
One-third of midsize employers (500-1k employees) reduced office space
The largest employers (10k+ employees) and smallest (1-50 employees) were least likely to have expanded spaces
Of the respondents that worked remotely during the pandemic, 60% have returned to the office in some capacity over the past six months.
🚗 The "H Year" for the Office
“Högertrafikomläggningen Day, now known as H Day, is the day when Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right-hand side of the road in 1967.”
Ryan Anderson compares the shift to hybrid-focused offices to “H-Day” in Sweden.
“Organizational leaders need to embrace the idea that offices are now on-demand resources that need to support shifting use patterns…”
This was a fun one and I learned something new. There are 5 takeaways in the post that should get your mind movin’.
Two Book Rec’s
Fiction
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
A quick read with a mythical twist, I enjoyed every minute of this book.
Non Fiction
The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
The most highlights I’ve made in a while. Essential reading for anyone interested in network-driven products.
That’s all for this week, stay warm out there and I hope you find something enjoyable in this post.