Why would we ever go back to stressful commutes in fossil-fuel-burning vehicles, just to stare at screens side-by-side instead of alone? Because, experts tell planetmoney, video chats are still a cruddy replacement for real workplace interaction.
finds that about half of companies believe they are witnessing a dip in productivity with this shift.
"When we're actually face to face, we don't stare at each other's eyes for that long," Bailneson says."But the default setting on a lot of these video conference technologies is a Brady Bunch grid, where everybody's staring at you right in the face." It's exhausting and super weird to have disembodied heads just staring at you for hours.
Employers like offices so they can keep an eye on the people who do the actual work and motivate them to be productive. It's much easier to do that in person. The office is a favorite setting of thinkfluencers, as well, who tout its"serendipitous interactions." Think brains colliding with brains in random interactions that generate profitable ideas.
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