The study also damns itself because they chose the absolute worst possible timing for their “research” and measuring wfh productivity. It’s like they don’t understand how much the pandemic changes everything.
Sort of? The largest outlier is child care time. Under non-pandemic conditions, where the children are not in the house, WFH is a decidedly different beast. As a WFH employee, even pre-pandemic, I firmly believe it is not the same style of social interaction; it has a much stronger "contractor" feel. If you are comfortable and familiar with a standard work environment, the transition can be difficult. That said, the numbers here are very bad: it looks like most things just devolved into meetings.