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Monday, June 05, 2006

Does Telecommuting Hinder Creativity?

Does telecommuting hinder creativity among groups?
This is a question that must be answered as industries allow more and more work to be moved from central offices to the home based agreements or other individualized off-site arrangements. Creativity sparked from face to face interaction among small teams is the hallmark of many types of knowledge industry activities. From journalism to design to software engineering to advertising, many categories of work that require continuous streams of new ideas and innovative approaches often do better when small groups interact in such a way as to aggregate and then distill multiple perspectives. Is this done more effectively in person? My opinion: probably.