The Shift to Remote Work Could Be a Big Swing and a Miss – The Wall Street Journal

Marissa Mayer may have been onto something when she banned remote work at Yahoo seven years ago.

A survey published in April from economist Erik Brynjolfsson and colleagues showed nearly 50% of the U.S. workforce had gone remote as a result of the coronavirus. Based on a few months of early data, companies are now considering a major cultural change by instituting permanent work-from-home policies. But corporations as productive, well-oiled remote machines could easily turn out to be a pipe dream.

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