Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer caught a lot of flack for her mandate prohibiting working from home, but new research from MIT seems to back up her decision. The study, published in Nature, concludes that cities with higher rates of face-to-face interactions among citizens — what the researchers call “social-tie density” — are more productive than those where citizens interact less frequently. If valid, though, their findings could do a lot more than validate the decision by one of tech’s most-scrutinized CEOs — they could help save the world.
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