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A comment on Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some say they'll rather quit. Parent comment

Re:Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some sa... by jeffbee on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:42AM (#26994913)
Well, if I was going to pick one organization in my experience that I think is best able to judge developer productivity it would be google. They have a team of organizational analysts who study it and have developed a pretty sophisticated model. Interestingly, in past research they found that remote work is the top predictor of developer productivity.
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Re:Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some sa... by dcolkitt on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:42PM (#26996724)
> Interestingly, in past research they found that remote work is the top predictor of developer productivity.

Positive or negative?

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Re:Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some sa... by jeffbee on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:47PM (#26996797)
I don't want to misrepresent it, but my understanding is that an expressed preference for working remotely is consistently associated with high self-evaluation of productivity. The abstract says "our results also suggest that software developers’ self-rated productivity is more strongly related to task variety and ability to work remotely."

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...

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Re:Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some sa... by tsejerome97 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @05:26AM (#27004727)
any source tho?
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