[emperorcezar]

Note that this "study" only went till June of 2020.

So all these workers went to remote work in a company without a remote work culture, then were measured for a short period of time before a remote work culture and the policies and tools to support it could be ironed out.

Also, how are they measuring "innovation"?

[prepend]

> Also, how are they measuring "innovation"?

This is really important. Not to diss Microsoft as they do put out innovative stuff nowadays (eg, vscode) but I want to know how they measure this as there’s a lot of trash features coming out (eg, Teams) so having more or fewer of those new things isn’t innovation.

Basically, I don’t trust Microsoft or Inc to define innovation in a way that matters to my curiosity.

[tweedledee]

I got the impression that vscode (monaco) was green lit in order to retain certain people threatening to leave. MS is having retention and talent acquisition problems. Luckily there are enough people with enough clout to do these projects. But they are definitely not normal.

[yepthatsreality]

How is VS Code innovative? It’s a text editor with packaged plugins. If there was innovation then it lies in making an above board Electron app.

[jjj123]

Not to mention June 2020 was only a few months into a pandemic unlike the US has seen in most of our lifetimes. I don’t see how you could differentiate between the effects of the pandemic/isolation and working from home.

[ASalazarMX]

If this is the same study I've heard of before, they defined innovation as "number of interactions", and assumed collaboration is directly proportional to the number of interactions.

The study should have been named "Remote Work Reduces Interaction".

[mfer]

I have a feeling there was an agenda behind this.

Deislabs, a part of MS that's been functioning as a distributed org for years, has produced a lot of innovation... https://deislabs.io/