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How We Work “If your visual field is narrow, then your cognition is likely to be as well.” "Even if the pandemic abates enough for a return to normal, all evidence indicates that a substantial share of Americans will continue to work from home, relying on videoconferencing to team up. "The new study in Nature finds that in-person teams generated more ideas than remote teams working on the same problem. "In a laboratory experiment, half the teams worked together in person and half did so online. The in-person teams generated 15% to 20% more ideas than their virtual counterparts. "In a separate experiment involving almost 1,500 engineers at a multinational corporation, in-person teams came up with more ideas, and those ideas received higher ratings for originality. "The researchers say they’ve identified a reason online meetings generated fewer good ideas: When people focus on the narrow field of vision of a screen, their thinking becomes narrower as well." - Edmund L. Andrews-Stanford Article: Virtual Meetings Stymie Creative Teamwork |