Alexandra Samuel, PhD, is a productivity expert and the co-author ofRemote, Inc.with Robert Pozen and theWork Smarter with Social Mediaebook series for Harvard Business Review Press. She has written dozens of stories forThe Wall Street Journaland over a hundred articles for theHarvard Business Review, and she is a frequent corporate speaker. A former National Science Foundation fellow, she holds a PhD from Harvard University (2004), where her dissertation was one of the first related to the internet.