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by chmaynard 2077 days ago
This smells like bullshit. Show us all the data or retract the article.
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It was a survey, and they quote the figures right there in the article...
They don't quote all the answers. Only the "high" answers.

"only 31% of the company’s engineers polled felt they had been highly productive, down 8 percentage points from a record high in the March quarter."

So 8 points down from a record. What is the usual variance on that statistics? Doesn't say much.

And like ... are employees really honest when asked 'anonymously' by a surveilence company how much they work?

They ask the same question regularly, statistically significant changes in answers are very noticeable. Also if people really liked WFH wouldn't they say they were more productive now to try to alter future decisions? But instead people choose to answer that they are less productive.
What would you want to see and why? Do you think this is some puff piece to influence people to want to get back working in offices? Hasn't google already stated that they aren't allowing people back until July 2021 or thereabouts?