What makes no sense is looking at pandemic increases in productivity and ascribing it to remote work. There were 2 obviously much larger reasons for that increase.
1. At the macro level, the increase was heavily driven by the fact that the least productive jobs were simply not being done. Blue collar workers were not working while white collar workers were.
2. At an individual level a massive increase in productivity was a result of people not having anything else to do so they were working a lot more.
Remote work might have led to an increase in productivity but these 2 factors definitely did. Yet people have been talking as if all the productivity increase was entirely because of remote work when it was almost certainly behind at least these 2 factors.
1. At the macro level, the increase was heavily driven by the fact that the least productive jobs were simply not being done. Blue collar workers were not working while white collar workers were.
2. At an individual level a massive increase in productivity was a result of people not having anything else to do so they were working a lot more.
Remote work might have led to an increase in productivity but these 2 factors definitely did. Yet people have been talking as if all the productivity increase was entirely because of remote work when it was almost certainly behind at least these 2 factors.