Beyond that, Mayer’s edict makes more sense as a means of cultural change within a business than it does as a way to improve any particular individual’s productivity. Almost precisely because working remotely is easy, the advantage that a workplace has over a collection of home workers – or a set of outsourced workers assembled through Task Rabbit – is that people can accomplish more in a setting that provides a common culture and the benefit of serendipitous connections.
除此之外，梅耶的禁令与其说是改善特定员工的生产率的方法，不如说是改变企业文化的手段。远程办公很容易，正是因为如此，有工作场所比起集体在家办公——或通过任务兔子（Task Rabbit）组织一组外包员工——的优势在于在提供共同文化的地方一起办公能完成的工作更多，更能激发意外默契。