Not one study suggests that working in an office eight hours a day, five days a week maximizes employee productivity, satisfaction, or performance. In fact, any data that exists on working life in an office reveals that most employees aren’t engaged, waste a lot of time in the office not working and that underperformance is a persistent problem.
The most impactful lesson that companies can learn from the Gig Economy is to judge workers based on their work -- their results, and their output -- not on when and where they do that work.
