A study of unprepared people being locked at home without childcare or schooling, without time to setup an office and in companies in dissarray is about as representative of home working as people falling overboard the titanic are representatice of health benefits of swimming.

Similarly if a group of tourists gets lost in the jungle we don't call that a study of prehistoric tribal life.

This is the funniest comment Ive read all week.

Then call it what it is, "Working from home while homeschooling during a pandemic, compared with normal office work: Evidence from the trenches."

> Your comment only tells me you wanted a different study than the one they did.

Of course, don't we all? It would be much more useful to have data on what remote work will be like in the future (i.e., when kids are in school/daycare).

There is something interesting about knowing the pros/cons of what happened during the pandemic, but most of the time research is done so that the conclusions can inform future decisions. Here, the future decisions about WFH would benefit from disentangling the WFH aspect from the COVID-induced remote school aspect.

One way to accomplish this is to assume that all workers who have kids (and lost productivity as a result) would have had the same productivity gains of people without kids. There are probably smarter/more nuanced ways to determine the global pros/cons of WFH in the future.