I agree. I've worked on small highly collaborative teams for the last 10 years and any time we're not in the same room, it's annoyingly and obviously less prod

I agree. I've worked on small highly collaborative teams for the last 10 years and any time we're not in the same room, it's annoyingly and obviously less productive. I'm sure that the productivity studies are not taking this kind of work style into consideration. Anyone who says this is a black and white issue and science has revealed the truth has somehow overlooked the long history of failed attempts at trying to measure productivity of software development teams (Most of which confuse activity with progress). There's quite a lot more to programming than how many hours of uninterrupted typing you have.