The Visible Hand
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Episode 103: Emma Harrington on the Benefits and Costs of Working Next to Your Colleagues
Episode Description
This paper studies who benefits and who suffers from working next to their colleagues, in the context of software engineers. Junior engineers benefit from receiving more feedback from their more experienced colleagues, when the team is located in a single building, as opposed to dispersed over many buildings. On the other hand, this comes at the cost of senior engineers writing less programmes. During the pandemic, everybody moved to working from home, so the difference between single-building and multi-building teams disappeared.