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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Natalia Emanuel - What We Lose When We Stop Working in the Same Room
When two people have a conversation in person, their brains synchronize. Over Zoom, they lose 90% of that neural synchrony. That's the starting point for understanding what remote work has actually cost us.
Topics covered:
Why in-person work drives creativity
How remote work reduced written code feedback by 20% even between people on the same campus
Why remote work hurts junior workers twice: separated from mentors and now from the entry-level tasks AI is taking
Why managers are 40% off in estimating how much workers value remote work
The difference between a return-to-office mandate and a…
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