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Re:Programmers are most likely to work from home by jamestimmins on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:42AM (#14098771)
To your first point, Richard Hamming's essay You and Your Research hits on this topic by distinguishing between people who work with their door open and people who work with their door closed.

As he put it, the people who worked with the door closed got more work done in the short term, but in the long run had fewer serendipitous strokes of brilliance.

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Re:Programmers are most likely to work from home by dasmoth on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @05:31PM (#14101956)
When comparing this to today's workplaces, the most striking point is that they all had doors.
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Re:Programmers are most likely to work from home by BeetleB on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:37AM (#14104204)
To be fair, we're comparing Bell Labs, where almost all researchers are the best in the world, to an average tech company.
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