At home and onsite creativity

Rucker and associates “conducted an experimental study with a German company whose employees usually work in an activity-based workspace consisting of open, closed and informal spaces that can be used by employees depending on the task at hand. Employees self-assessed their creative performance for different creative tasks (individual vs. team) and in different work environments (office vs. home office). Our findings reveal that for individual creative tasks (e.g. creating a presentation), employees are more creative when working from home (vs. in the office) because they experience higher levels of perceived psychological freedom. . . . By contrast, for team creative tasks (e.g. developing ideas for a new product), employees reported being more creative when working in the office (vs. from home) due to higher levels of perceived psychological safety.”
Marc Rucker, Oscar Pakos, Sophia Windschiegl, and Kai-Ingo Voigt. “Working in the Office or Working from Home: Where are Employees Most Creative?” Creativity and Innovation Management, in press, https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12601