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A 17-month study at Dovetail Systems found that employees working remotely two days per week completed 8% more assigned tasks on average than office-only peers. The average concealed substantial variation: analysts improved markedly, while laboratory and client-service teams showed little change. Voluntary attrition was statistically indistinguishable between the groups. The findings support neither a universal productivity claim nor a universal rejection of hybrid work; they indicate that job design mediates its effects.
Which new situation most closely follows the principle supported by the passage?
- A firm measures employee sentiment and reports it as completed-task productivity.
- A firm evaluates hybrid work separately for engineering, sales, and laboratory roles before setting role-specific policies.
- A firm mandates the same hybrid schedule for every role because company-wide average output rose, ignoring role variation.
- A firm bans remote work because attrition did not decline.
- A firm claims remote work caused every analyst improvement without considering selection or job design.
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