[babesh]

What the article is saying is that there are group benefits to working together and that they speculate that the traders in America did better than the traders in Europe because they worked together.

Most comments I read on Hacker News that say that working from home is better measure a single individual’s output or that of a group that has worked together for a period of time.

There may well be studies that show that WFH is better. It would be good to study this further.

Perhaps it is better in some ways and worse in others. Perhaps it is better for some groups and worse for others. Perhaps certain technologies or processes can shift the balance.

I would hope that this is what we seek to learn. Instead, on Hacker News, you find a lot of agenda pushing. That makes me sad. I hope that we become more curious and open minded.

[MattGaiser]

I would be interested in knowing how much a WFH preference correlates with how much engineering teams work together.

As I have never worked for an engineering team that did anything other than parcel out work and expect people to go and do it. Yes, there was some pair programming for tough parts and we do architecture together, but as a general rule I don't meaningfully talk to any other engineers for completing my features except maybe to ask 10-20 minutes of questions.

So the "working together" part to me mostly consists of me being in a meeting which is not all that technical and where I don't care what the decision is. I have far more hours sitting in meetings playing on my phone than I have genuinely engaged in collaborative development.

But on the other end you have companies like Pivotal which are 100% paired code writing.

[orwin]

I'd say that if you're an ops/devops/architect, you need to work between 20% and 60% of your time with someone else. If you're a dev, i think roughly 20% is quite enough (unless you only do peer programming).

[mtberatwork]

> Most comments I read on Hacker News that say that working from home is better measure a single individual’s output or that of a group that has worked together for a period of time.

Well, of course people are going to advocate for what works best for them. The workforce has drastically changed and careers are much more in the hands of individuals now. Upper management/HR layers aren't advocating for employees anymore, career paths through a single company is almost a relic. So it's only natural that individuals are wanting whats best for individuals.