Productivity is often a term I think about in an individual sense, but after reading Joshua Rothman’s article,“Big Data Comes to the Office”, I have learned that it has more to do with collaboration than I ever expected. In the piece, he describes how an MIT computer scientist helped to discover that people work more effectively when they are allowed to communicate. He writes, “Pentland found that, of the four twenty-person teams he tracked, the ones with the fastest “average call handling time,” or A.H.T., were also the most social. In fact, the most successful teams spent more time doing exactly what their managers didn’t want them to be doing: talking” (Rothman). This information shocked me because in my own study habits, I normally find
