The working-from-home illusion fades

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• Meta and more—have demanded staff show up to the office at least three days a week.

• unwieldy

• be traced to

• curmudgeons

• spate

• found a productivity shortfall, relative to prior in-office performance

• he boost to efficiency had instead become a 4% decline.

• vantage-point

• toiling

• It is harder for people to collaborate from home.

• co-ordination costs, making collective enterprise more unwieldy.

• first, more than two-thirds of the improved performance came from employees working longer hours, not more efficiently; second, the Chinese firm eventually halted remote work because off-site employees struggled to get promoted

• sadomasochists

• 19%

• Unfortunately for the believers, new research mostly runs counter to this

• Emanuel and Emma Harrington

• decline in learning for workers at home. Those in offices picked up skills more quickly.

• xchanged between colleagues dropped sharply after the move to remote work.

• hose in offices picked up skills more quickly.

• A ilusão de trabalhar em casa desaparece Afinal, não é mais produtivo do que estar em um escritório