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Bet a lot of CEO's thought computers were a fad too.
Computers increase productivity. Some studies showed a decrease in productivity between 8% and 19% when transitioning to a work-from-home setting. Those are the studies that CEOs will cite when justifying their decisions.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/721803
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kqbngD8pemqxAkZmWCOQ32Yk6PXK9eVA/view
My point
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I understood it. I just disagreed with it. They’re just not comparable.
Computers improve productivity at the cost of the business, while work-from-home impairs productivity at the cost of the business.
Had work-from-home shown an increase in productivity, it would likely be more readily embraced by businesses.