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The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused a rapid shift to full-time remote work for many information workers. Viewing this shift as a natural experiment in which some workers were already working remotely before the pandemic enables us to separate the effects of firm-wide remote work from other pandemic-related confounding factors. Here, we use rich data on the emails, calendars, instant messages, video/audio calls and workweek hours of 61,182 US Microsoft employees over the first six months of 2020 to estimate the causal effects of firm-wide remote work on collaboration and communication. Our results show that firm-wide remote work caused the collaboration network of workers to become more static and siloed, with fewer bridges between disparate parts. Furthermore, there was a decrease in synchronous communication and an increase in asynchronous communication. Together, these effects may make it harder for employees to acquire and share new information across the network.
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“by April 2020, as many as 37% of Americans were working from home (WFH) full-time 2,3”
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- Partly supportedcites [2] Brynjolfsson, E. et al. COVID-19 and Remote Work: An Early Look at US Data. Technical Report (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results (p. 4) report that 35.2% of previously employed workers switched to working from home and another 15.0% were already doing so—about half the workforce, not 37% of Americans. The paper identifies 37% as a separate estimate and, in §2.2 (p. 8), cautions that its survey may include people who do only some work at home rather than working from home full-time. It says the shift had largely occurred by early April, but does not support the claimed percentage or full-time qualification. (LLM, conf=0.88)
- Partly supportedcites [3] Barrero, J. M., Bloom, N. & Davis, S. 60 million fewer commuting hours per day: how Americans use time saved by working from home. Working Paper (Univ. Chicago Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, 2020); https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/BFI_WP_2020132.pdf sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The paper reports that 37.1% of its surveyed respondents worked from home, supporting the approximate percentage. But the surveys were conducted in May, July and August 2020—not April—and covered Americans aged 20–64 who earned at least $20,000 in 2019. The passage does not say they worked from home full-time (15 September 2020, p. 2). (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Thus, in a matter of weeks, the pandemic caused about one-third of US workers to shift to WFH”
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- Partly supportedcites [4] Dingel, J. I. & Neiman, B. How many jobs can be done at home? J. Public Econ. 189, 104235 (2020). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction estimates that 37% of US jobs can be done at home, which measures feasibility rather than an actual shift. The Related literature and real-time measures section reports a survey finding that 35% of US respondents worked entirely from home in May 2020, but it does not establish that one-third of US workers shifted to doing so because of the pandemic or within weeks. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Overall, the changes that we observed in the temporal dynamics of ego networks may have made it more difficult for workers to capture the benefits associated with forming new connections 23,24 , reconnecting with dormant connections 25 and modulating their network position [20][21][22] .”
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- Supportedcites [23] Soda, G. B., Mannucci, P. V. & Burt, R. Networks, creativity, and time: staying creative through brokerage and network rejuvenation. Acad. Manage. J. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2019.1209 (2021). source
The paper’s opening section says that the creative benefits of open network structures are less likely to be realized without new ties. Its Theoretical Contributions section likewise says that the advantages of brokerage depend on whether a network contains old or new ties. This supports the portion of the citing sentence about benefits from modulating network position; the citing authors’ conclusion about the changes they observed is their own. (LLM, conf=0.90)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [24] Zeng, A., Fan, Y., Di, Z., Wang, Y. & Havlin, S. Fresh teams are associated with original and multidisciplinary research. Nat. Hum. Behav. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01084-x (2021). source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [25] Levin, D. Z., Walter, J. & Murnighan, J. K. Dormant ties: the value of reconnecting. Organ. Sci. 22, 923–939 (2011). source
- Not matchedcites [20] Kneeland, M. K. Network Churn: A Theoretical and Empirical Consideration of a Dynamic Process on Performance. PhD thesis, New York University (2019).
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“We make our results more robust by estimating our DiD model using weights generated using CEM 67 .”
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- Supportedcites [67] Iacus, S. M., King, G. & Porro, G. Causal inference without balance checking: coarsened exact matching. Polit. Anal. 20, 1–24 (2012). source
Section 3 (page unavailable) explicitly defines weights assigned by CEM to matched units. The Introduction describes CEM as reducing bias and model dependence, supporting its use as a robustness measure. The DiD model and the robustness of the citing authors’ particular results are their own application, not findings attributed to this source. (LLM, conf=0.89)
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“shifting to firm-wide remote work caused an overall decrease in observed synchronous communication such as scheduled meetings and audio/video calls.”
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“Firm-wide remote work also decreased the cross-group connections of workers by 0.04 FV (P = 0.008, 95% CI = 0.01-0.07)”
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“Before the onset of the pandemic, 18% of US Microsoft employees were working remote from their collaborators.”
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“we found that the shift to remote work reduced the share of time that workers spent collaborating with weak ties by 0.32 FV (P < 0.001, 95% CI = 0.29-0.35).”
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“we found that people did not simply replace in-person interactions with video and/or voice calls.”
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“firm-wide remote work caused a 0.06 FV (P = 0.005, 95% CI = 0.02-0.10)increase in the individual clustering coefficient”
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“and the share of collaboration time workers spent with cross-group connections by 0.26 FV (P < 0.001, 95% CI = 0.23-0.29).”
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“Although we found no effect on the number of collaborators that employees had (the size of their collaboration ego network)”
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“firm-wide remote work decreased the number of distinct business groups that an employee was connected to by 0.07 FV (P < 0.001, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.05-0.10).”
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“and the share of time with bridging ties by 0.41 FV (P < 0.001, 95% CI = 0.35-0.47).”
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“firm-wide remote work decreased the number of bridging ties by 0.09 FV (P < 0.001, 95% CI = 0.06-0.13)”
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“and increased unscheduled video/audio call hours by 1.6 FV (P < 0.001, 95% CI = 1.5-1.8).”
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“We found that the switch to firm-wide remote work caused larger increases for managers than individual contributors in IMs sent, emails sent and unscheduled video/audio call hours (Fig. 6, left).”
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“Our results also indicate that the shift to firm-wide remote work caused synchronous communication to decrease”
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“Overall, we found that collaborators switching to remote work caused workers to spend less time attending to sources of new information”
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“Notably, the remote work status of an employee and that employee's collaborators both contributed to the total effect of firm-wide for most network outcomes.”
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“We also find that the shift to firm-wide remote work caused larger increases for engineers than non-engineers in the number of IMs sent and the number of unscheduled call hours (Fig. 6, right).”
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“and the number of IMs sent by workers by 0.50 FV (P < 0.001, 95% CI = 0.46-0.55).”
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“Relative to the baseline case of all coworkers working in an office together, we found that firm-wide remote work decreased scheduled meeting hours by 0.16 FV (P < 0.001, 95% CI = 0.13-0.19)”
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“the shift to firm-wide remote work decreased the share of time that workers spent collaborating with the connections they did add by 0.29 FV (P < 0.001, 95% CI = 0.24-0.34).”
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“the effects of firm-wide remote work on communication media were in some cases larger for managers and engineers.”
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“We tested for heterogeneity in the effects of the shift to firm-wide remote work on collaboration ego networks with respect to a worker's managerial status (manager versus individual contributor), tenure at Microsoft (shorter tenure versus longer tenure) and role type (engineering versus non-engineering), and did not find meaningful heterogeneity across any of these dimensions”
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“As seen in Fig. 8, collaborator effects also dominate ego effects when we decomposed the effects of firm-wide remote work on communication media usage.”
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“the average ego-level-normalized Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) 47 of the collaboration time is increased by remote work”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [47] Herfindahl, O. C. Concentration in the Steel Industry. PhD thesis, Columbia University (1950).
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“and asynchronous communication to increase.”
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“Importantly, the causal estimates that we report are substantially different compared with the effects suggested by the observational trends shown in Figs. 2 and 4.”
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“and decreased the number of connections workers added month-to-month by 0.04 FV (P = 0.015, 95% CI = 0.01-0.07).”
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“An employee's collaborators switching to remote work seems to have had a particularly large impact on the amount of time that workers spent with ties that are most likely to provide access to new information, that is, cross-group ties, bridging ties, weak ties and added ties.”
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“and that those silos became more densely connected.”
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“We did not find meaningful heterogeneity with respect to employee tenure at Microsoft.”
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“approximately 90% (+0.09FV, P < 0.001, 95% CI = 0.07-0.10) of the increase in workweek hours was due to collaborators switching to remote work.”
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“Firm-wide remote work also increased the average number of workweek hours by 0.10 FV (P < 0.001, 95% CI = 0.09-0.11)”
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“We estimate that firm-wide remote work caused a slight decrease of 0.05 FV (P = 0.006, 95% CI = 0.01-0.08) in the total amount of synchronous video/audio communication.”
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“the average ego-level Shannon entropy 48 of collaboration time is decreased by remote work.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [48] Shannon, C. E. A mathematical theory of communication. Bell Syst. Tech. J. 27, 379–423 (1948). source
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“Although the effects of firm-wide remote work on collaboration networks did not exhibit heterogeneity across the worker attributes that we observed”
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“communicate more through asynchronous media”
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“More than half of the increase in IMs sent and emails sent was due to collaborators switching to remote work”
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“work longer hours.”
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“Firm-wide remote work increased the number of emails sent by workers by 0.08 FV (P < 0.001, 95% CI = 0.05-0.12)”
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“firm-wide remote work reduced the number of existing connections that churned from month-to-month by 0.05 FV (P = 0.006, 95% CI = 0.02-0.09)”
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“COVID-19 has accelerated the shift away from traditional office work, such that even firms that do not keep full-time remote work policies in place after the pandemic has ended are unlikely to fully return to their pre-COVID-19 work arrangements 7”
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- Not checked yetcites [7] Lund, S., Cheng, W.-L., André Dua, A. D. S., Robinson, O. & Sanghvi, S. What 800 executives envision for the postpandemic workforce. McKinsey Global Institute (23 September 2020); https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-work/what-800-executives-envision-for-the-postpandemic-workforce
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“the shift to firm-wide remote work caused employees to spend a greater share of their collaboration time with their stronger ties, which are better suited to information transfer”
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“We analysed anonymized individual-level data describing the communication practices of 61,182 US Microsoft employees from December 2019 to June 2020”
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“Our results show that the shift to firm-wide remote work caused business groups within Microsoft to become less interconnected.”
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“and a smaller share of their time with weak ties, which are more likely to provide access to new information.”
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“The time series trends shown in Fig. 1 suggest that the identifying assumptions of our modified DiD model are plausible”
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“we treat Microsoft's company-wide WFH policy during the pandemic as a natural experiment that, subject to the validity of our identifying assumptions, enables us to causally identify the impact of firm-wide remote work on employees' collaboration networks and communication practices”
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“and caused individuals to spend less time collaborating with the bridging ties that remained”
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“Together, these effects may make it harder for employees to acquire and share new information across the network.”
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“It also reduced the number of ties bridging structural holes in the company's informal collaboration network”
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“The increase in unscheduled calls was more than offset by the decrease in scheduled meeting hours.”
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“however, this effect is small relative to the effect on IM volume.”
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“We also found that the shift to firm-wide remote work caused workers' ego networks to become more static”
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“This suggests that the added ties that we observed are a mixture of dormant ties 25 and ties that are truly new.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [25] Levin, D. Z., Walter, J. & Murnighan, J. K. Dormant ties: the value of reconnecting. Organ. Sci. 22, 923–939 (2011). source
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“Simply comparing the work practices and/ or productivity levels of remote workers and office workers will likely yield biased estimates of the global treatment effects of different remote work policies, due to the causal effects of one's colleagues working remotely.”
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“This suggests that the increase in IMs reflects a change in workers' collaboration patterns while working, as opposed to changes in how much workers were working.”
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“The fact that shifting to firm-wide remote work increased the number of workweek hours also makes the negative effect of firm-wide remote work on synchronous collaboration more notable.”
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“This may be reflective of the fact that software development teams are particularly reliant on informal communication [49][50][51] , much of which may have taken place in-person before the shift to firm-wide remote work.”
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- Not matchedcites [49][50][51]
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“our results also indicate that firm-wide remote work led to a decrease in the total amount of synchronous collaboration, both in-person and through Microsoft Teams.”
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“Thus, firms making decisions on the basis of non-causal analyses may set suboptimal policies.”
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“In total, these results indicate that, above and beyond the impact of firm-wide remote work on the organizational and structural diversity of workers' ego networks, the shift to firm-wide remote work also made the allocation of workers' time more heavily concentrated.”
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“Specifically, the non-trivial collaborator effects that we estimate suggest that hybrid and mixed-mode work arrangements may not work as firms expect.”
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“For example, some firms that choose a permanent remote work policy may put themselves at a disadvantage by making it more difficult for workers to collaborate and exchange information.”
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“Although there was a sustained increase in workweek hours, it was too small to account for the large increases that we observed in the use of various communication media without a simultaneous shift in the way that employees were conducting work.”
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“These results are robust to the use of alternative definitions of added and deleted ties”
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“This is probably because, relative to individual contributors, a larger share of managers' time is dedicated to communicating with others, that is, their direct reports (for example, to address issues blocking progress or conduct performance reviews), and representatives of other groups within the organization (for example, to coordinate activity and goals across different groups).”
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“Yet, across many sectors, firms are making decisions to adopt permanent remote work policies based only on short-term data 52 .”
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [52] Kolko, J. Remote job postings double during coronavirus and keep rising. Indeed Hiring Lab (16 March 2021); https://www.hiringlab.org/2021/03/16/remote-job-postings-double/
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“Looking to the future, these findings suggest that remote work policies such as mixed-mode and hybrid work may have substantial effects not only on those working remotely but also on those remaining in the office.”
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“With our data, we are unable to validate the plausibility of this important identifying assumption; however, it is worth noting that causal estimates produced by standard DiD models also rely on the validity of parametric assumptions 66 .”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [66] Athey, S. & Imbens, G. W. Identification and inference in nonlinear difference-in-differences models. Econometrica 74, 431–497 (2006). source
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“This reweighting means that we can relax the parallel trends and exogeneity assumptions described above to only be required conditional on employee characteristics.”
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“Both of these factors make it more likely that for many firms, some version of remote work will persist beyond the pandemic.”
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“Assuming that there is a treatment effect to detect, matching on pretreatment behavioural outcomes would actually make our identifying assumptions less likely to hold.”
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“These plots establish the plausibility of the 'parallel trends' assumption that is required by our modified DiD model.”
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“The results are qualitatively similar to those we present in our main analysis.”
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“These comparisons suggest that, for both of our treatment variables, the DiD model's parallel trends assumption is plausible, both when measuring the effect of the treatment on network measures (Fig. 1a,c) and when measuring the effect of the treatment on communication media measures (Figs.1b,d).”
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“nearly every American that was able to work from home did so 4”
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- Partly supportedcites [4] Dingel, J. I. & Neiman, B. How many jobs can be done at home? J. Public Econ. 189, 104235 (2020). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction estimates that 37% of US jobs can be done entirely at home, and Related literature and real-time measures reports a survey finding that 35% of US respondents worked entirely from home in May 2020. Those similar aggregate figures do not establish that nearly every American whose job was feasible from home actually worked from home; the paper does not track that overlap. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“Recent analyses of telemetry and survey data show that the pandemic has affected both the who and the how of collaboration in information firms-while working remotely during the pandemic, workers are spending less time in meetings 35 , communicating more by email 35 , collaborating more with their strong ties as opposed to their weak ties 36 , and exhibiting patterns of communication that are more”
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- Supportedcites [35] DeFilippis, E., Impink, S., Singell, M., Polzer, J. T. & Sadun, R. Collaborating During Coronavirus: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Nature of Work. Working Paper 21-006 (Harvard Business School Organizational Behavior Unit, 2020). source
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- Not checked yetcites [36] Bernstein, E., Blunden, H., Brodsky, A., Sohn, W. & Waber, B. The implications of working without an office. Harvard Business Review (15 July 2020); https://hbr.org/2020/07/the-implications-of-working-without-an-office
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [37] Larson, J. et al. Dynamic silos: modularity in intra-organizational communication networks before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.00641 (2021). source
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“and reduce the quality of workers' output 11,23 .”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [11] Uzzi, B. & Spiro, J. Collaboration and creativity: the small world problem. Am. J. Sociol. 111, 447–504 (2005). source
- Partly supportedcites [23] Soda, G. B., Mannucci, P. V. & Burt, R. Networks, creativity, and time: staying creative through brokerage and network rejuvenation. Acad. Manage. J. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2019.1209 (2021). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Theoretical Contributions section acknowledges that adding new collaborators can disrupt coordination and routines, and says new ties benefit creativity only when paired with suitable network structures and content. It does not establish that changes in collaboration patterns reduce workers’ output quality generally; its findings concern creative outcomes in a specific collaborative setting. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“For the remaining 82% of US Microsoft employees, the shift to firm-wide remote work induced variation in both their own remote work status and in the remote work status of their coworkers.”
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“we did observe large changes in the average shares of monthly collaboration hours spent with cross-group ties, bridging ties, weak ties and added ties, which all decreased precipitously between February and June.”
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“there was a decrease in synchronous communication and an increase in asynchronous communication.”
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“For this subset of employees, the shift to firm-wide remote work did not cause a change in their own remote work status, but did induce variation in the share of their colleagues who were working remotely.”
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“remote work caused employees to communicate more through media that are more asynchronous-sending more emails and many more IMs.”
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“Furthermore, the network became more static, with fewer ties added and deleted per month.”
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“For unscheduled call hours, meeting hours, total video/audio hours and IMs sent, we observed considerable increases around the time of the switch to firm-wide remote work; these increases are sustained through our data timespan.”
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“Of the added ties we observed in June 2020, 40% existed in at least one month between January 2020 and May 2020, whereas the remaining 60% did not.”
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“The change in email volume is much smaller and shorter-lived.”
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“Our results suggest that shifting to firm-wide remote work caused the collaboration network to become more heavily siloed-with fewer ties that cut across formal business units or bridge structural holes in Microsoft's informal collaboration network”
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“Most employees transitioned to WFH during the week of 1 March 2020, although our analysis omits the month of March as a transition period.”
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“Many technology companies, such as Twitter, Facebook, Square, Box, Slack and Quora, have taken this shift one step further by announcing longer term and, in some cases permanent, remote work policies that will enable at least some employees to work remotely, even after the pandemic 5,6”
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- Not matchedcites [5] Benveniste, A. These companies’ workers may never go back to the office. CNN (18 October 2020); https://cnn.it/3jIobzJ
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- Not matchedcites [6] McLean, R. These companies plan to make working from home the new normal. As in forever. CNN (25 June 2020); https://cnn.it/3ebJU27
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“also suggest that firm-wide remote work caused the collaboration network to become more siloed, both in a formal sense and in an informal sense.”
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“these analyses, like much of the previous research on remote work, virtual teams and telecommuting, are non-causal 31 and are therefore unable to separate the effects of remote work from the effects of pandemic-related confounding factors”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [31] Allen, T. D., Golden, T. D. & Shockley, K. M. How effective is telecommuting? Assessing the status of our scientific findings. Psychol. Sci. Publ. Int. 16, 40–68 (2015). source
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“For firms, certain network configurations are associated with the production of high-quality creative output 11”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [11] Uzzi, B. & Spiro, J. Collaboration and creativity: the small world problem. Am. J. Sociol. 111, 447–504 (2005). source
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“Conditional on a given network position or configuration, the efficacy with which a given tie can transfer or provide access to novel information depends on its strength.”
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“firm-wide remote work caused the collaboration network of workers to become more static and siloed, with fewer bridges between disparate parts.”
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“media synchronicity theory 28 proposes that asynchronous communication channels (such as email) are better suited for conveying information and synchronous channels (such as video calls) are better suited for converging on the meaning of information.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [28] Dennis, A. R., Fuller, R. M. & Valacich, J. S. Media, tasks, and communication processes: a theory of media synchronicity. MIS Q. 32, 575–600 (2008). source
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“In other words, firm-wide remote work caused an overall decrease in the number of cross-group interactions and the fraction of attention paid to groups other than one's own.”
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“there is a competitive advantage to successfully engaging in the practice of 'knowledge transfer, ' in which experiences from one set of people within an organization are transferred to and used by another set of people within that same organization 12”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [12] Argote, L. & Ingram, P. Knowledge transfer: a basis for competitive advantage in firms. Organ. Behav. Hum. Dec. Process. 82, 150–169 (2000). source
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“Previous research has also shown that the performance of workers is affected not only by the structure of the network and the strength of their ties, but also by the temporal dynamics of the network.”
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“Two people connected by a strong tie can often transfer information more easily (as they are more likely to share a common perspective), to trust one another, to cooperate with one another, and to expend effort to ensure that recently transferred knowledge is well understood and can be utilized 10,[13][14][15]”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [10] Reagans, R. & McEvily, B. Network structure and knowledge transfer: the effects of cohesion and range. Admin. Sci. Q. 48, 240–267 (2003). source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [13] Hansen, M. T. The search-transfer problem: the role of weak ties in sharing knowledge across organization subunits. Admin. Sci. Q. 44, 82–111 (1999). source
- Not matchedcites [14] Krackhardt, D. The strength of strong ties. in Networks in the Knowledge Economy (Oxford Univ. Press, 2003).
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“Remote work obviously eliminates in-person communication”
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“as our model specification decomposes the overall effects of firm-wide remote work into ego remote work and collaborator remote work effects, our results also provide some insight into the possible impacts of remote work policies such as mixed-mode work and hybrid work.”
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“media richness theory 26,27 posits that richer communication channels, such as in-person interaction, are best suited to communicating complex information and ideas.”
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- Not matchedcites [26] Lengel, R. H. & Daft, R. L. An Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship Between Media Richness and Managerial Information Processing. Technical Report (Texas A&M Univ. Department of Management, 1984).
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [27] Daft, R. L. & Lengel, R. H. Organizational information requirements, media richness and structural design. Manage. Sci. 32, 554–571 (1986). source
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“being a conduit through which such information flows by bridging 'structural holes' 9 in the organization can have additional benefits for individuals 10”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [9] Burt, R. S. Structural holes and good ideas. Am. J. Sociol. 110, 349–399 (2004). source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [10] Reagans, R. & McEvily, B. Network structure and knowledge transfer: the effects of cohesion and range. Admin. Sci. Q. 48, 240–267 (2003). source
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“people also benefit from changing their network position [20][21][22] , adding new ties 23,24 and reconnecting with dormant ties 25”
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- Not matchedcites [20] Kneeland, M. K. Network Churn: A Theoretical and Empirical Consideration of a Dynamic Process on Performance. PhD thesis, New York University (2019).
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [21] Kumar, P. & Zaheer, A. Ego-network stability and innovation in alliances. Acad. Manage. J. 62, 691–716 (2019). source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [22] Burt, R. S. & Merluzzi, J. Network oscillation. Acad. Manage. Discov. 2, 368–391 (2016). source
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“the benefits of different types of ties vary with their age 19”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [19] Baum, J. A., McEvily, B. & Rowley, T. J. Better with age? Tie longevity and the performance implications of bridging and closure. Organ. Sci. 23, 529–546 (2012). source
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“this result suggests that, on average, firm-wide remote work caused workers to substitute ties that were not connected to one another for those that were.”
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“in-person and phone/video communication are more strongly associated with positive team performance than email and instant message (IM) communication 30”
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- Not matchedcites [30] Pentland, A. The new science of building great teams. Harvard Bus. Rev. 90, 60–69 (2012).
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“Media richness theory, media synchronicity theory and previous empirical studies all suggest that these communication media choices may make it more difficult for workers to convey and/or converge on the meaning of complex information.”
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“individuals added and deleted fewer ties from month-to-month and spent less time with newly added ties.”
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“previous research has shown that establishing a rapport, which is an important precursor to knowledge transfer, is impeded by email use 29”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [29] Morris, M., Nadler, J., Kurtzberg, T. & Thompson, L. Schmooze or lose: social friction and lubrication in e-mail negotiations. Group Dyn. Theor. Res. Pract. 6, 89–100 (2002). source
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“weak ties require less time and energy to maintain 8,16 and are more likely to provide access to new, non-redundant information 8,17,18”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [8] Granovetter, M. The strength of weak ties. Am. J. Sociol. 78, 1360–1380 (1973). source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [16] McFadyen, M. A. & Cannella Jr, A. A. Social capital and knowledge creation: diminishing returns of the number and strength of exchange relationships. Acad. Manage. J. 47, 735–746 (2004). source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [17] Granovetter, M. The strength of weak ties: a network theory revisited. in Social Structure and Network Analysis 105–130 (Sage, 1982). source
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“As remote work was mandatory during the pandemic, we are able to quantify the effects of firm-wide remote work, which are most relevant for firms considering a transition to an all-remote workforce.”
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“The fact that firm-wide remote work caused workers to have fewer bridging ties, and to spend less time with their remaining bridging ties”
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“Our modified DiD model extends the standard DiD model by estimating the causal effects of changes in two different treatment variables (one's own remote work status and the remote work status of one's colleagues) and by introducing additional identifying assumptions such that it is possible to draw causal inferences in the presence of an additional shock (in our case, the non-WFH-related aspects”
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“Previous research has shown that network topology, including the strength of ties, has an important role in the success of both individuals and organizations.”
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“For individuals, it is beneficial to have access to new, non-redundant information through connections to different parts of an organization's formal organizational chart and through connections to different parts of an organization's informal communication network 8”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [8] Granovetter, M. The strength of weak ties. Am. J. Sociol. 78, 1360–1380 (1973). source
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“In other words, different portions of the network, which became less interconnected, also became more intraconnected.”
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“Not only were the communication media that workers used less synchronous, but they were also less 'rich' (for example, email and IM).”
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“There are multiple high-profile cases of firms such as IBM and Yahoo! enacting, but ultimately rescinding, flexible remote work policies before COVID-19, presumably due to the impacts of these policies on communication and collaboration 61,62 .”
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- Not matchedcites [61] Swisher, K. Physically together: here’s the internal Yahoo no-work-from-home memo for remote workers and maybe more. All Things (22 February 2013).
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- Not matchedcites [62] Simons, J. IBM, a pioneer of remote work, calls workers back to the office. Wall Street Journal (18 May 2017).
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“Second, the period of time over which we measured the causal effects of remote work are quite short (three months), and it is possible that the long-term effects of firm-wide remote work are different.”
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“Finally, our ability to make causal claims is predicated on the validity of our modified DiD framework's identifying assumptions: parallel trends, conditional exogeneity after matching and additively separable effects.”
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“Previous research suggests that these changes in collaboration patterns may impede the transfer of knowledge 10,12,13”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [10] Reagans, R. & McEvily, B. Network structure and knowledge transfer: the effects of cohesion and range. Admin. Sci. Q. 48, 240–267 (2003). source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [12] Argote, L. & Ingram, P. Knowledge transfer: a basis for competitive advantage in firms. Organ. Behav. Hum. Dec. Process. 82, 150–169 (2000). source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [13] Hansen, M. T. The search-transfer problem: the role of weak ties in sharing knowledge across organization subunits. Admin. Sci. Q. 44, 82–111 (1999). source
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“Third, our analysis treats the effects of firm-wide remote work on peoples' collaboration networks and communication media usage as separate, whereas these two types of effects may interact and exacerbate one another.”
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“Even if we were able to measure productivity and innovation, the impacts of network structure and communication media choice on performance are likely contingent on a number of factors, including the type of task a given team/organization is trying to complete [56][57][58][59] .”
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“our results suggest that firm-wide remote work ossified workers' ego networks, made the network more fragmented and made each fragment more clustered.”
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“although we believe that changes to workers' communication networks and media will affect productivity and innovation”
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“We expect that the effects we observe on workers' collaboration and communication patterns will impact productivity and, in the long-term, innovation.”
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“On the basis of these examples, one might conclude that the current enthusiasm for remote work may not ultimately translate into a long-lasting shift to remote work for the majority of firms.”
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“Although we have taken steps to verify the plausibility of these assumptions and tested the robustness of our results to an alternative matching procedure 60 (details of which are provided in the Methods), they are assumptions nonetheless.”
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- Not matchedcites [60] Athey, S., Mobius, M. M. & Pál, J. The impact of aggregators on Internet news consumption. Preprint at SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2897960 (2017).
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“However, in June 2020, both employees who were and were not working remotely before the COVID-19 pandemic were in the same potential outcome state (firm-wide remote work), and therefore matching on time-varying behavioural outcomes improves the credibility of our identifying assumptions.”
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“This research was reviewed and classified as exempt by the Massachusetts institute of Technology (MIT) Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects (that is, MIT's Institutional Review Board), because the research was secondary use research involving the use of de-identified data.”
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- Rests on an assumption: The use of the data is compliant with US employee privacy laws.
- Rests on an assumption: Microsoft provides employees with appropriate notice of its use of Workplace Analytics, and sets strict controls over the collection and use of such data.
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“Since we study all U.S. employees whose behavior is recorded by Workplace Analytics, our sample is by definition representative.”
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“To test the robustness of our analysis, we re-estimate our main DiD specification on an alternate matched sample of employees who worked remotely before the COVID-19 pandemic, which is constructed using a more extensive matching procedure introduced in ref. 60 .”
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- Not matchedcites [60] Athey, S., Mobius, M. M. & Pál, J. The impact of aggregators on Internet news consumption. Preprint at SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2897960 (2017).
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“To make this identifying assumption more plausible, we use the CEM procedure described below.”
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“Viewing this shift as a natural experiment in which some workers were already working remotely before the pandemic enables us to separate the effects of firm-wide remote work from other pandemic-related confounding factors.”
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- Rests on an assumption: The COVID-19 pandemic caused a rapid shift to full-time remote work for many information workers.
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“Participants were not allocated into experimental groups since our study was observational.”
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“Our ability to causally identify both ATTs is predicated on a number of identifying assumptions, some of which are standard in DiD analyses and some of which are specific to our research setting.”
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“In a standard matched DiD analysis, control and treatment units would be matched on the basis of pretreatment behaviour.This type of matching is not appropriate in our context, given that employees who did and did not work remotely before the COVID-19 pandemic are by definition in different potential outcome states in February.”
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“Here, we use rich data on the emails, calendars, instant messages, video/audio calls and workweek hours of 61,182 US Microsoft employees over the first six months of 2020 to estimate the causal effects of firm-wide remote work on collaboration and communication.”
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“This study uses quantitative quasi-experimental data to measure the effects of remote work on information workers' collaboration and communication practices.”
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“However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, workers and firms have invested in the physical and human capital required to support remote work 63 and innovation has shifted toward new technologies that support remote work 64 .”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [63] Barrero, J. M., Bloom, N. & Davis, S. J. Why working from home will stick. Working Paper (Univ. Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, 2020). source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [64] Bloom, N., Davis, S. J. & Zhestkova, Y. COVID-19 shifted patent applications toward technologies that support working from home. Working Paper (Univ. Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, 2020). source
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“In other words, provided that any differences in how the two groups would have evolved in the absence of the pandemic or how they are affected by the pandemic are entirely explained by the employee characteristics we match on, then the CEM-based results are valid.”
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“For our analyses that use coarsened exact matching, employees for whom there are no matches (i.e., they are 'treatment' employees in a bucket with no 'control' employees or vice-versa) are excluded from our analysis.This results in 105 Microsoft employees being excluded from these analyses.”
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“s.e.values are clustered at the team level.”
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“Observations are weighted using coarsened exact matching (CEM) weights, and standard errors are clustered at the level of an employee's manager.”
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“In all cases, the time series appear to move in parallel both before the transition to remote work, and once the transition to remote work concluded, suggesting that this identifying assumption is reasonable.”
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“For privacy reasons, we do not have access to demographic variables such as age and gender.”
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The identifying assumptions of the modified difference-in-differences model are satisfied or plausible.
“subject to the validity of our identifying assumptions”
“Provided that the identifying assumptions of the DiD model are satisfied”
“The time series trends shown in Fig. 1 suggest that the identifying assumptions of our modified DiD model are plausible”
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The non-WFH-related aspects of COVID-19 affect both treated and untreated units in a way that the modified difference-in-differences model can account for.
“introducing additional identifying assumptions such that it is possible to draw causal inferences in the presence of an additional shock (in our case, the non-WFH-related aspects of COVID-19) that affects both treated and untreated units, and is concurrent with the exogenous shock(s) to our treatment variables.”
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The time series for treated and untreated workers would have evolved in parallel absent the treatment for both treatment variables.
“First, we assume that, for both of our 'treatment' variables, the time series for 'treated' and 'untreated' workers would have evolved in parallel absent the treatment.”
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The timing of the switch to remote work is independent of employees' outcomes (strict exogeneity).
“Second, we assume strict exogeneity, that is, that the timing of the switch to remote work must be independent of employees' outcomes.”
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Workers' remote work status before the pandemic and the percentage of workers' colleagues that work remotely before the pandemic are independent of how they are affected by the pandemic.
“However, we do need to assume that workers' remote work status before the pandemic and the percentage of workers' colleagues that work remotely before the pandemic are independent of how they are affected by the pandemic.”
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Conditional on the CEM procedure, employees' pre-pandemic remote work status and the percentage of colleagues working remotely were independent of the effects of ego remote work and collaborator remote work on their work outcomes.
“If we wanted to interpret the ATTs that we estimate from those employees that started WFH due to the pandemic as average treatment effects, we would also need to assume that, conditional on the CEM procedure described below, employees' pre-pandemic remote work status and the percentage of colleagues working remotely were independent of the effects of ego remote work and collaborator remote work on”
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Ego remote work effects, collaborator remote work effects and non-remote-work-related COVID-19 effects are additively separable.
“Finally, we assume that ego remote work effects, collaborator remote work effects and non-remote-work-related COVID-19 effects are additively separable.”
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The use of the data is compliant with US employee privacy laws.
“The use of the data is compliant with US employee privacy laws.”
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Microsoft provides employees with appropriate notice of its use of Workplace Analytics, and sets strict controls over the collection and use of such data.
“Microsoft provides employees with appropriate notice of its use of Workplace Analytics, and sets strict controls over the collection and use of such data.”
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Workplace Analytics is widely adopted within Microsoft.
“Workplace analytics is widely adopted within Microsoft.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a rapid shift to full-time remote work for many information workers.
“The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused a rapid shift to full-time remote work for many information workers.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The parallel trends assumption required by the modified DiD model holds.
“the 'parallel trends' assumption that is required by our modified DiD model”
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“Collaboration is a critical twenty-first century skill, and the workforces of the future will be increasingly driven by people who can work in teams to solve complex problems (Yang et al., 2022).”
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“This can make it harder for employees to acquire and share information53.”
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“The 97 (<0.2%) employees in strata without both non-remote and remote employees before the COVID-19 pandemic were discarded from our sample.”
§ Data exclusions
“For our analyses that use coarsened exact matching, employees for whom there are no matches (i.e., they are 'treatment' employees in a bucket with no 'control' employees or vice-versa) are excluded from our analysis.This results in 105 Microsoft employees being excluded from these analyses.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Yang, L., Holtz, D., Jaffe, S., Suri, S., Sinha, S., Weston, J., Joyce, C., Shah, N., Sherman, K., Hecht, B., & Teevan, J.
- Affiliations
- Microsoft (United States) (US)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Yang, Longqi
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Human Behaviour
- Published
- 2021-09-09
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 43-54
- ISSN
- 2397-3374 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3045635324
- Cited by
- 789
- References
- 74
- Citations by year
- 2026: 129 · 2025: 168 · 2024: 169 · 2023: 173 · 2022: 123 · 2021: 20
- FWCI
- 167.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2021-10-05)
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Human Behaviour (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Team Dynamics and Performance
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Keywords
- remote work, collaboration networks, information professionals, COVID-19 pandemic, synchronous communication, asynchronous communication, communication media, workplace communication
- MeSH terms
- Information Technology, Teleworking, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Communicable Disease Control, Communication, Cooperative Behavior, Employment, Humans, Organizational Policy
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