Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees working from home

Re:Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees wo... by toolz on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:04PM (#26976269)

I have a hard time imagining a complete uprooting from your normal routine during a global pandemic would result in a short-term productivity gain that would then decrease as workers become more accustomed to remote work and are less stressed due to the lack of a pandemic moving forward.

That's not to say you don't make good points, I just can't imagine your points outweighing what I perceive as more heavily influencing factors.

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Re:Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees wo... by orangecat on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:45PM (#26976537)

Anecdotal as everyone else, but what the grandparent describes has been exactly my experience. When we went all-remote last year we were in the later stages of an existing project, and it wasn't much of a problem because everybody had a good understanding of what we had to do. Getting our next project off the ground was much harder due to communication challenges.

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