Elena Marsh (physicist?)

Her profile lists three focus areas: survey design, scoring models and workplace data. Her stated method is to prefer a small, well-documented sample over a large unverifiable one, and to publish question wording alongside every figure.

She is credited on our AI in the Workplace and Hybrid Work Adoption reports, and on rankings including AI writing assistants, hybrid work scheduling tools, project management software, helpdesk software, video conferencing and note-taking apps.

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Her profile lists two statistics briefs and six product rankings. Reading them is the most direct way to assess her methodology: each ranking states its scoring criteria and each brief names the sources for every figure.

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