Has your office become a lonely place?

• Autores: Marta E. Mangelsdorf
• Localización: MIT Sloan management review, ISSN 1532-9194, Vol. 57, Nº 2, 2016, págs. 18-18
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • With increasing amounts of work getting done outside the traditional corporate office - for example, through employees working at home - those left in the office may face a lonelier and even less productive office environment. In fact, working remotely may be contagious, because if too many of the people on a team aren't in the office much, coming into the office has less benefit for the remaining employees, who may then also choose to work remotely. That's the implication of a fascinating study described in the paper, Contagious Offsite Work and the Lonely Office: The Unintended Consequences of Distributed Work, published in the December 2015 issue of the journal Academy of Management Discoveries. The authors conclude that their research suggests that once a certain number of individuals are working offsite, everyone is isolated.