Does remote work suck?
Remote Rants
English - April 28, 2020 18:20 - 10 minutes - 14.4 MBBusiness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This video a response to a recent Planet Money article, titled "Why Remote Work Sucks, According to Science."
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/04/28/846671375/why-remote-work-sucks-according-to-science
In this episode, we discuss why this article is a poor take, including:
- How NPR is cherry picking data to build a case against remote work
- Why surveying HR professionals is not indicative of the employer's experience
- Why PWC's research is a counterpoint to NPR's #science
- Why productivity will go down if someone stares at you on a video call for weeks on end