Why Remote Work Sucks, According To Science
What social science says about killing the office.
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Like a decent chunk of the American workforce, Planet Money is now working remotely. Every morning, we have an all-staff video conference on GoToMeeting. We use Slack for conversations. We record in closets and use Dropbox to transfer the files. We're making the best of it—we're happy to have the work—but no one really loves it.
Since the birth of the personal computer, futurists have been predicting the death of the office. If we can
