The Power of Proximity to Coworkers

When engineers sit near their coworkers, junior engineers receive more on-the-job training, but senior engineers get less done.

There probably isn’t a more succinct explanation for the generational divide on remote working. Important study validating the anecdata which most of us are now familiar with: workers who know what they are doing already don’t want the interrupts involved with office life, but inexperienced workers need it to for knowledge transfer. Quite academic but scannable report. PS: as an addendum read alongside Generative AI at Work from last week, where inexperienced workers bridged this gap with AI. We’re in a fascinating moment in the world of work.