Re:Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some sa...
by d0mine on Friday April 30, 2021 @12:25PM
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> This forced experiment in 100% WFH was clearly bad for productivity.
Could you link to some data that demonstrates that?
> A lot of it was to create an environment where workers worked longer hours and thus the firm got more productivity out of each worker.
"longer hours" "more productivity" is obviously false for the extremes. It is unclear what is the threshold when a programmer starts to introduce more issues than they fix.
It is hard to measure productivity for a programmer (e.g., what might be productive short-term may be counter-productive long-term).
Could you link to some data that demonstrates that?
> A lot of it was to create an environment where workers worked longer hours and thus the firm got more productivity out of each worker.
"longer hours" "more productivity" is obviously false for the extremes. It is unclear what is the threshold when a programmer starts to introduce more issues than they fix.
It is hard to measure productivity for a programmer (e.g., what might be productive short-term may be counter-productive long-term).