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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?

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."

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