Of course, one can usually find any study with results that support one's position, but the studies described in this article support the gut feelings I have always had on working from home since the pandemic shut things down in early 2020. I think we will eventually see increasing "back to the office" directives from large employers. Hopefully, it won't be too late to save flailing office properties.
Workers may have roundly criticized the pressure to go back to the office as old fashioned and inefficient - but a revised version of Emanuel and Harrington’s paper, published in May by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, revealed that the original study actually showed a 4% decline in efficiency instead.
