[Feeble]

"Remote workers were not only more productive they were more satisfied with remote work than they had been with working in a traditional office"

I think some citation is needed here, there are multiple studies and they have very varied outcome. This one for instance find that productivity drops 18% when working from home: https://www.nber.org/papers/w31515

At best he is cherry picking his studies and ignoring the contrarian studies, at worst he is blindy pushing his own interest and views.

[pbhjpbhj]

This study is of Indian workers doing data entry and employed either direct to office or entirely remotely.

I'd expect pretty different results in different industries, demographics, countries.

Cherry picking indeed.

[chrisjj]

I suggest you'd need to show more than "I'd expect" for your cherry picking charge to stick.

[pbhjpbhj]

I can't disclose details but I know for my office raw [short term] productivity was about 20% up for WFH (the situation differs in almost every aspect from that in the study your linked).

That's non statistically significant to make a general statement, but confirms to me that as a minimum there is high variability.

Data entry is low skill, high churn; in person I'd expect managers to put a lot of pressure on because they can drive people away in six months (it might even be preferable for employment law reasons) and still have plenty of people needing jobs to pick up the work.

I'm not going to research a paper here, only to note my direct experience makes the broad applicability of your single study highly questionable.

It's one study, I'm sure there are now more longitudinal indicative studies for most regions that anyone here can find with ease.

You (I assume) were probably right to suggest the OP might be cherry picking, but you didn't do much better IMO (nor did I, I suppose).

[rrr_oh_man]

I love this, though:

> Second, there is a negative selection effect into the office, since workers who prefer home-based work are 12% faster and more accurate at baseline

[drdrek]

This article is the usual case of decide on a conclusion then build the data sources. It's probably the norm now.

How many are going to click and share: "Popular belief inconclusive, meta research suggests" vs "A research paper finds popular belief validated!"