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The Rise of Remote Work: A Numerical Analysis of Productivity Trends
Why productivity is hard to measure for knowledge work, and how different definitions of output can tell very different stories about remote work.
People and Platforms
Work and Communication
Reading claims about remote work, office tools and workplace talk.
Cultural Shifts in Language Use in the Workplace: A Statistical Look at Communication Trends
How office vocabulary, tone and formality change over time, why workplace jargon is hard to pin down, and how researchers try to track those shifts.
Cultural Shifts in Social Media Use in the Workplace: A Statistical Look at Communication Trends
How company chat tools and professional networks are studied separately from personal social media, and what usage data can and cannot reveal about work.
Cultural Shifts in Work-Life Balance: A Statistical Look at Remote Work
How work-life balance is defined, why survey wording changes the results, and what boundary blurring means beyond simple hours worked in remote settings.
Email Overload and the Move to Messaging Apps at Work
How claims about email overload and message volume are collected, what they leave out, and why the move to workplace messaging apps is hard to evaluate.
The Effects of Social Media on Relationships in the Workplace: A Quantitative Study
How working ties, hierarchy and trust may be affected by online contact between colleagues, and how researchers try to observe and measure those effects.
Video Meetings and Claims About Fatigue
How research on video meeting fatigue is designed, what self-reports and experiments can show, and how far the findings can be generalised to other workplaces.
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