Employees have been massively more productive during the pandemic (+47% YoY in March/April)
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That is very interesting. Wonder if once things go back to "normal" if most of these business will still want their employees to work from home.
Point of no return for a few big tech companies.
This is interesting. Do you think the productivity increase is enough to offset the near-worldwide increase in unemployment rates?
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wow that is HUGE
Definitively can relate to this! Our backlog has been moving forward at the speed of light...
But @ppalevsky is probably right about the lack of leisure activities available, as soon as bars/restaurants/cinemas/etc... opens you're gonna see a gigantic drop in productivity (All the people I've been talking to feels emptied-out and need a break).
I'm guessing fear of losing your job has been a pretty good motivator
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For sure. I can think of other variables as well, related to layoffs:
Looking at the post, it only seems to mention numbers that show increased activity, i.e.
That may show that more things are happening -- as @ppalevsky says, "There is nothing else to do but work." But I do not exactly see the link between activity and productivity.
Did I miss anything?
You're correct, but this is just the nature of the beast.
"Productivity" is a construct, and the activities listed in the study (e.g. telephone calls, CRM actions, etc.) are real things — i.e. they're directly measurable entities.
A construct can only be assessed in terms of the measurable elements it contains. But of course none of these measurable elements define the construct.
For example, in meteorology, "weather" is a construct. Weather is not in and of itself a real thing. However, several elements that are measurable and thus each a real thing contribute to the weather:
Other constructs: freedom, well-being, charisma, etc.