As I indicated, there has been a lot of published research on this specific topic as applied to software engineering teams. I would suggest you start with _Peop

As I indicated, there has been a lot of published research on this specific topic as applied to software engineering teams. I would suggest you start with _Peopleware_ by DeMarco & Lister as a survey. This research is categorically different from the research on working from home in that: - it measures a facet of the workplace that is commonplace and standard - it has been studied for several decades, and the results have held up. (IIRC the first such studies were done in the 1950s or 1960s.) IMHO those arguing that people have changed enough that now they can better recover from interruptions than their predecessors could 20 or 30 years ago have the burden of proof, not the other way around.