Q&A: Jason Owen-Smith

Marissa Mayer ignited a firestorm when she banned telecommuting throughout Yahoo. But there\´s little hard data about the value of working at an office versus at home. One researcher who has studied the problem is Jason Owen-Smith, an associate professor of sociology and organizational studies at the University of Michigan, and one of the four coauthors of a paper titled "Zone Overlap and Collaboration in Academic Biomedicine." He talked with Steven Cherry about it for IEEE Spectrum\´s podcast series, "Techwise Conversations."