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This is the same study that was on HN a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27467764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27467764 Economist's distil
by acituan 5y ago
This is the same study that was on HN a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27467764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27467764
Economist's distillation is borderline disinformative, especially since it runs with overgeneralizations without qualifying what the "work" in question was. This study was based on a single IT services company in Asia.
As a rule of thumb, when someone makes generalizations about "remote work" the first thing to ask should be "what is the work", because there is a complex, non-linear interaction between the remoteness and the job description. This is important because I think there is some effort to subsidize remote productivity losses in certain ladders *cough* managers *cough* by lumping all remote work together and setting policies based on averages.
- f38zf5vdt 5y agoSince the Economist Group was almost completely bought out by the Agnelli family in 2015 it's moved to pushing a center-right Liberalism agenda. I've found the quality of the periodical has really tanked since then.
- acituan 5y agoAny alternative recommendations? I am OK with publications having biases (in fact, I don't think there could be one without any) as long as they tend to be upfront about it and I can find opponent views to balance things out.
- foobiekr 5y agoFinancial Times. But I’m sure someone will complain about it’s slant, which I view as reality-biased but which doesn’t give much credit to trendy politics.
- kragen 5y agoThe Economist was founded in 01843 to oppose the Corn Laws, a Liberalism agenda that would count as "center-right" today, and I recall it as being fairly consistently liberal at least since I started reading it in the 01990s.