Remote work is bad for innovation according to a massive new study. A genetics startup says it will resurrect the woolly mammoth. Plus more news and analysis from this week.
Except that the Microsoft report is deeply flawed and started out with the supposition that innovation is damaged by remote work and tried very hard to prove it. It is, however, nonsense based on bad scientific practice and mainly took place before lockdown. Read Ed Zitron's systematic take down of this biased nonsense and please publish some of the better researched materials that abound that show that remote work is preferable to the Taylorism view of office work.
This was a good one.
Except that the Microsoft report is deeply flawed and started out with the supposition that innovation is damaged by remote work and tried very hard to prove it. It is, however, nonsense based on bad scientific practice and mainly took place before lockdown. Read Ed Zitron's systematic take down of this biased nonsense and please publish some of the better researched materials that abound that show that remote work is preferable to the Taylorism view of office work.