The job market changed drastically following the Covid-19 pandemic, with companies forced to shift to remote work—many of which are still operating that way today or with a hybrid office model. Employees have now experienced the benefits of working in the comfort of their own home, creating more of a desire to work remotely in the job sphere today.

And since we’re not certain NYC will ever switch to a 4-day work week, we’ll take all we can get.

Let’s take a look at some of this year’s most desirable companies for remote work below.

Beyond wearing pajamas on your zoom calls, remote work gives you the opportunity to get your job done from anywhere in the world. Of course, visa stipulations are a thing to consider but most countries in fact offer a digital nomad visa so you could be living and working on the coast of Thailand or in a cafe in Italy by this time next year!

1. Airbnb

As stated on their careers page, Airbnb lets their employees work from anywhere in the world, regulations abiding. The company prides itself on its inclusive, creative community that spans worldwide. Plus, they even offer ways to connect in-person if that’s something that’s of interest to you. There are currently empty roles in titles like Business Development Lead, Communications Lead, Platform Manager, Legal Counsel, Head of Advanced Analytics and more. You can explore them all here.

2. Meta

You already probably spend most of your days on their platforms so why not work for them? The technology conglomerate responsible for Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp offers remote positions in a wide array of departments from security and engineering, to content strategy and artificial intelligence. Explore all of their available remote roles here.

3. Microsoft

Microsoft believes there’s no one-size-fits-all, so in addition to running a hybrid work model, they also offer fully remote positions, so long as you reside in the listed country of the role. With a strong commitment to pay equity, community, and world-class health benefits, there’s many perks to working for Microsoft. The company has an overall satisfaction score of 4.2/5 on Indeed with callouts to its incredible culture and compensation.

4. Adobe

Adobe is not only listed on Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® 2024 but has been deemed the best place to work for the 12th consecutive year by Glassdoor. If that’s not convincing enough, the company even has an education fund up to $10,000/year to help you continue your learning. Find out more here.

5. Spotify

Music fanatic? Spotify’s Work From Anywhere program lets employees work from home, the office or anywhere of their choosing while ensuring there’s still plenty of opportunity for connection. Follow your passion for music within the role of design, sales, data, global affairs and more. See additional info here.

6. William Sonoma

Designing your dream job could be as simple as working remotely with William Sonoma as a Virtual Design Consultant, Design Coordinator or Director of Product Development. Explore the various remote careers in design with William Sonoma here.

Of course remote work comes with its consequences as well, so it’s important to understand whether a remote position and what it entails is really what you want. For those concerned about remote work burnout, you can view the video below:

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Fancy gowns and celebrity outfits are no strangers to museum collections. But the everyday clothing found in closets across America typically gets overlooked by fashion exhibits.

A new show coming to the New-York Historical Society, titled “Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore,” changes that. The newly announced exhibit will feature everyday women’s clothing from the past two centuries, including a well-worn Depression-era house dress, a college girl’s psychedelic micro mini, and an Abercrombie & Fitch wool suit bought off-the-rack in NYC in 1917 that was remade into a Relief uniform worn behind enemy lines in France. See the exhibition from September 27, 2024, to June 22, 2025.

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The exhibition showcases a lot more than just contemporary style. It also digs into the fascinating history, economics and real stories behind everyday fashion, revealing how women have worked and dressed over two centuries. “Real Clothes” examines how women have influenced, adapted and defied societal expectations through the clothes they chose to make, purchase and alter.

“Clothing has always played a crucial role in women’s lives, reflecting their evolving roles, identities and social conditions,” Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of New-York Historical, said in a press release. “This exhibition celebrates the impressive history and untold narratives embedded in our clothing.” 

Clothing has always played a crucial role in women’s lives, reflecting their evolving roles, identities and social conditions.

The garments are drawn from the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection, an archive of the everyday fashion of American women. Costume design professor Kiki Smith guided the archive after its creation in 1979, and today it’s home to more than 4,000 garments and accessories. Objects and images from New-York Historical will complement the outfits. 

“Each thread and length of fabric on view in this exhibition provides insightful clues about the women who wore these garments,” Anna Danziger Halperin, associate director of the Center for Women’s History at New-York Historical, said in a statement. “By shining a light on the diverse roles women have played and the clothes they wore, we hope to underscore the social and cultural shifts that continue to shape our past.”

Here are a few exhibition highlights

Home: All Work, No Pay

This section offers an homage to the practical garments worn to perform daily household tasks. Many of these garments bear signs of repeated use—worn cuffs, stains, patched holes—and tell stories of women’s daily toil: a black-and-white cotton work dress (ca. 1865-1870) in a “mourning print” that indicates it was worn by a widow; a red cotton chambray apron (ca. 1895-1915); and a portable lockstitch sewing machine (ca. 1890), an innovation that was hailed as a technological marvel that would “liberate” women when it became widely available in the 1850s.

Service: Capable and Accomplished

Next, see uniforms, clothing that strips away individuality by fusing the wearer with their profession. Items on view include a housemaid’s worn-down pair of boots (ca. 1920), a bubblegum pink waitress uniform (ca. 1955), and a maternity uniform worn by a McDonald’s fast-food worker (ca. 1976).

Public Dress: In Good Taste

Learn how women in the 19th and 20th centuries of all social classes followed written and unwritten rules for public dress that were specific to their class, age, race, religion and locality. See a bustle-style day dress (1875-80) that was patched and remade multiple times, showcasing the resourcefulness and determination of a working woman during that era. An early 1970s pantsuit made by Wrangler, a company known for denim menswear, highlights the era when coordinated pantsuits became a style option for women in the workplace.

Rites of Passage: What She Wore

Discover the important role clothing plays in celebrating significant life events and how gendered traditions and social conventions have changed over time. Mourning earrings and a pin set made from materials like enamel, onyx and human hair highlight the strict dress codes of mourning in the 19th century that many women followed. A contemporary quinceañera dress (2019) reveals how a celebrant marking her 15th birthday with the party common in Latin American cultures broke with the tradition of wearing a ball gown style dress and jeweled tiara by choosing a short dress worn with white Converse sneakers and a floral crown instead.

Pushing the Boundaries: Rebel Wear

The final section embodies defiance against societal norms, depicting moments when women challenged restrictive rules through their clothing choices and actions. Whether protesting or defying traditional gender expectations, these garments symbolize the reshaping of societal standards. Items on view include a traditional men’s gray, two-piece suit (1920-1928), which was custom-made for an individual assigned female at birth. The suit is distinguished from men’s suits of the era by the small waist and deeply curved pleats. Also on view is a yellow micro mini dress from the late 1960s hand-made by a first-year college student, an outfit meant to challenge the restrictive boundaries set by a society being rocked by the civil rights, women’s liberation and anti-war movements.

Special programming 

Expect a variety of programming, including family-friendly events, during the run of the exhibition, including a weekly Cross Stitch Circle and story times with paper doll crafts. Mark your calendar for October 19 and 20 when you can watch as an 18th-century gown is made from start to finish over the course of two days.

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If you want to take a quick relaxing trip to Finland—allegedly the world’s happiest country—but can do without the uncomfortable eight-hour flight, the Finnish Long Drink canned cocktail brand is bringing a slice of the European country to New York City for one weekend only. 

Starting today, June 27, until Saturday, June 29, you can indulge in an authentic Finnish sauna experience at 433 Broadway by Howard Street in Soho for free.

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First, visitors will get to sit inside a functioning dry sauna to improve blood flow, they will then move to an outdoor cold plunge area featuring a simulated landscape of the Finnish wilderness for full effect. The experience ends in a reconstruction of a Finnish cottage, called Mökkielämä, where you’ll finally get to sip on canned drinks from the activation’s sponsor, Finnish Long Drink.

For those unfamiliar with Finnish culture (myself very much included), the “long drink” is a staple of Finland’s booze landscape that was created during the 1952 Helsinki summer Olympics. The drink usually consists of gin and a mixer such as grapefruit soda, a concoction that the founders of the Finish Long Drink canned cocktail brand wanted to export to the U.S. and beyond.

Just in case you were wondering, the Finnish sauna experience is world renown for its health benefits. In fact, the very concept of a sauna was first invented in Finland and some estimate that there are more than 3.3 million of them in the country across homes, country cabins, gyms and all types of businesses. Finland is also a country with 187,888 lakes, which means that many sauna goers punctuate their sessions with dips in those bodies of water—hence the cold plunge tradition. 

Although experiencing such an important aspect of another culture right on our territory is enough of a reason to head to Soho this weekend, we’d like to also remind you that it’s not often that you get to enjoy a quality sauna for free in Manhattan. Don’t miss out!

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New York taco lovers have been making pastor-related pilgrimages to Taqueria Ramírez ever since the Greenpoint joint opened back in the fall of 2021, winning over ravenous eaters and industry lists with its focused and fantastic lineup of tortillas loaded with suadero, spiced longaniza and slow-cooked tripe. And now the team has graciously expanded, with a sister restaurant that just debuted in Manhattan.

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The taqueria’s owners, Giovanni Cervantes and Tania Apolinar, have taken over the former Café Cortadito space (210 East 3rd Street) for an East Village outpost that hosted its grand opening last Friday, June 21. The latest in a wave of Brooklyn-based eateries making the Manhattan move—including The Commodore and Win Son Bakery—the new taco restaurant is spotlighting carnitas, Michoacán’s “little meats” tradition that features pork that’s braised or simmered until it’s unconscionably tender.

And just like at the original spot, Carnitas Ramírez is a whole-animal affair where the carne is concerned. The taco selection features slow-simmered cabeza (head), buche (stomach), lengua (tongue), trompa (snout), oreja (pig’s ear) and more, with more exotic cuts like the uterus and the tail soon to come. You can get each taco for only five bucks a pop, or if you want a little crumbled chicharron on top for a salty crunch, that’ll be a dollar extra. Outside of the taco shell, you’ll find other Mexican specialties such as lonche de carnitas, a tricked-out torta hailing from the country’s north, and quesadillas de sesos made with pork brains. 

Right now, the taqueria is operating on weekends only: Fridays from noon to 10pm, Saturdays from 11am to 10pm and Sundays from 11am to 9pm. And the waiting throngs definitely showed up for a taste last weekend, so much so that the restaurant team posted on Instagram that they’ve already gone through an entire pig’s worth of tacos. So plan your taco-feasting sessions accordingly!

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