My spouse is a workforce analyst. She schedules work packages for a large government agency. She's responsible for the workloads of about 150 people. All have been working from home for a full year, and yes, they are quite capable of doing it. However, overall productivity is down 30%. Since they have good data, she can clearly see which people are close to their normal productivity even when working from home, and which ones are considerably worse. Most people are worse.
Does the data set have a control group? A group of workers doing identical tasks during a global pandemic ripe with political and social strife but working entirely within an office with their peers?
Is there data that indicates that remote work is worse just because of the pandemic, or under ideal conditions, pre covid did remote work stats also indicate worse performance.
Without further information i do not understand how this can be disambiguated.
Myself, after a year of remote, i see pros/cons, but the overall situation of a pandemic is just soul crushing.
