Does Creativity Suffer Because of Enforced Remote Work?

It remains unclear how well productivity, collaboration or creativity have held up during the enforced “work from home” policies. Knowledge workers who largely work alone likely have fared the best. Work outputs based on collaboration and teamwork arguably have suffered the most. 

source: Lucidspark 

It is possible that up to 60 percent of remote workers who had not been used to doing so experienced a producitvity drop, at least as they would define it. Up to 40 percent believe the at-home work made them more productive, though again this is based on self reports.

source: Lucidspark 

The point--assuming the self reports are accurate--is that enforced remote work might harm productivity, collaboration and creativity if it remains the only option for office and knowledge workers. The consensus is that hybrid approaches will eliminate some of that impact.

But it remains unclear how productivity, creativity and collaboration will hold up, depending on how the hybrid work pattern unfolds.