An article published in Bloomberg in January stirred up some conversation on Hacker News. The article, which is paywalled, is called
Remote Work Doesn’t Seem to Affect Productivity, Fed Study Finds. I was going to share it in the articles section below, but I generally don't include hard-paywalled stuff if I can help it.
Nonetheless, there's some good reaction to the study in
the Hacker News thread. There's a link to an archived version at the top of the thread, but I couldn't get that page to load.
The multi-page threads on Hacker News are pretty rare, so I thought it would be a good one to link to considering the subject. One interesting comment is as follows:
"How could remote work not be more productive? Most of my friends/colleagues get back at least an hour of their lives each day they don't commute, and they all use the 'extra' time to do more work. People wanna work. They just don't wanna sit in traffic, walk through parking lots and ride elevators for an hour every day."
This is mostly true and I wonder how much this was taken into consideration in the study.
Now on to this week's hand-picked productivity links!
