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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." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]