Work-from-home scuppered ‘thinking time’ for female researchers

This is a very insightful article; the distinction between “sustained knowledge work” and "episodic knowledge work” is significant. I often found it difficult to find time for the former even in pre-pandemic times and the introduction of shared offices or hot-desking would make it even harder. I found for most of my career that working in the office and then leaving work behind was the only way to have a satisfactory family life. The days of academics living an almost monastic life (as portrayed in the film "Shadowlands") have gone (if they ever existed for most of us). So, to make the career attractive to a wide range of applicants the conditions must improve. Selling hybrid working as part of this is not the answer as for most of my career I have always had the option to work at home whenever I was not teaching or required in meetings. Given the decline in the real value of pay and the deteriorating pension situation, a family-unfriendly working style is the last thing that is needed.