Remote Work Under the Microscope
The value of soft work was the unmistakable conclusion of a paper from Dave Holtz of UC Berkeley and Siddharth Suri, Longqi Yang and Sonia Jaffe of Microsoft. They studied the effect of the first six months of the pandemic on 61,000 Microsoft employees and found that remote work caused “collaboration to be more static and siloed,” they concluded, noting a sharp decrease in communication across groups that made it harder for “employees to acquire and share new information.”
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Remote work can be more productive for individual contributors, but it kills communication between silos, which it turns out is the engine for creativity and innovation.
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