From: The Wall Street Journal
At Work: Is Telecommuting The Way to Go?
The Wall Street Journal:
If you want to convince the boss you should start working from home, chances are there is a study out there that says it makes employees more productive. If you’re a boss and would prefer your employees stay tethered to their office cubicles, a sheaf of academic research will bolster that argument, too.
A team of social scientists recently set out to review the research on telecommuting, in hopes of finding out once and for all whether it’s a net positive for workers and their employers.
The resulting study, published last week in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, boldly declares: It depends.
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But there are plenty of exceptions. At the start of new projects, “face-to-face time may be particularly important,” wrote researchers Tammy D. Allen of the University of South Florida, Timothy D. Golden, of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Kristen M. Shockley, of the City University of New York.
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