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The Green Dot at Four in the Morning

4 min Lesezeit · Anonym · Premium

4 min Lesezeit · Premium

When you work from home, your messaging app stops being a tool and becomes a room you live in. I have it open before I've finished my first coffee and it's still glowing when I close my laptop at night. After three years on a fully remote marketing team, I could read the little colored dots beside people's names like weather. Green meant present. Gray meant gone. I never thought a single pixel could break a marriage, including mine in the sense that it changed how I saw everyone I worked with.

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