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This week, a Deutsche Bank report declared the honeymoon is over for remote work, as many people report feeling burned out and disconnected from their companies.

Maybe their employers are just doing it wrong.

Quartz’s first-ever ranking of the best companies for remote workers shows it’s possible to have a happy, productive, and engaged workforce that never steps foot in an office. The trick is treating remote work not as a stopgap but as a business priority, and providing remote workers with as much opportunity as their office-bound peers to grow and advance in their careers. See who made the list and what other companies can learn from their success.

One secret of the best companies for remote workers: unlimited paid time off. While it might seem counterintuitive—doesn’t working from home mean you can already take breaks whenever you need to?—the last 18 months have taught us that making it easier to plug in from anywhere makes it that much harder to unplug.

No matter what your company’s vacation policy, the answer to getting more out of your days off is the same: Find ways to experience time as gloriously abundant. We compiled some of the best advice we could find from psychologists, time-management experts, and even a celebrity or two.

✦ Read all about it in How To, delivered to Quartz members’ inboxes every Friday.

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Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, a day that changed the US irrevocably. In 2021, humans across the planet are experiencing another devastating, world-changing event, only the pandemic has unfolded much more slowly, making sure it touches every corner of the globe.

Here’s a reading list as you reflect:

• Now, as then, Milton Glaser’s iconic 9/11 poster is helping New Yorkers emerge from the pandemic.
• The hard lessons of Sept. 11 led to the boom in supertall skyscrapers.
• The US Sikh population fought back against post-9/11 racism by educating Americans about their culture and faith.
• The pre-9/11 air travel process feels like a remnant of a bygone, innocent age.
• The US dramatically increased domestic oil production post-9/11; it’s not ready for the new national security risks of clean energy.

Shaping cities in one hour a day. In 1994, Italian physicist Cesare Marchetti identified a nearly universal rule of human behavior: People tend to travel for about one hour per day, in total. Marchetti’s Constant, as his observation is known, explains the ways ancient and newer cities alike have developed through time. Whenever a new technology arrives that zips people to work at faster speeds, towns typically grow outward, but not so far that commutes expand past one hour per day. Let the Quartz Weekly Obsession take you on a (short) journey.

Huzzah, it’s the weekend! Discover something new on Quartz with your gloriously abundant time.