John Collison: Remote work hurts early-career productivity, according to Stripe data
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John Collison, co-founder and President of Stripe, discusses internal employee productivity data measured before the COVID-19 pandemic regarding remote work.
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“The thing that we have seen, and interestingly, we measured this before COVID, because we were doing a lot of remote hiring, and we wanted to see how much we should lean into it, is that it is not good for early career people. We can actually measure it in our productivity data before the whole discussion about remote work happened during COVID, and it's bad from a work point of view.”
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