I feel like there is systematic information warfare being directed against remote working. Business managers are citing paywall articles to justify return to office policies and many of these studies these articles cite do not support the conclusions being drawn. As one example, a paywalled Economist article states:
"Teleconferencing is a pale imitation of in-the-flesh meetings: researchers at Harvard Business School, for example, concluded that “virtual water coolers”—rolled out by many companies during the pandemic—often encroached on crowded schedules with limited benefits."
But these particular "virtual water coolers" (mixing senior and junior employees together in an informal onboarding meeting) are just one single form of teleconferencing! The study says nothing about "Teleconferencing is a pale imitation of in-the-flesh meetings" that is a made up opinion invented the the article writer! Read it for yourself. Especially the study's conclusion: https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/21-125_bbb49345-38ea-4c04-9d56-4f6ef72dd7f7.pdf
Really intellectually dishonest Economist article. Sucks that crap like this is actually being cited to justify the upheaval of thousands of ppl's lives in Return to Office policies.
