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What Marissa Mayer doesn't (and does) get about white-collar work

15 May 2013

Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom took employees at a huge Chinese travel agency and randomly assigned some to work from home while others worked in the office. Sure enough, in terms of sheer amount of work, the stay-at-homes did 13 percent more overall. Bloom's previous studies found that firms with policies that allowed remote work were more productive in general than the companies that didn't have such policies in place.

This article was published by Wired.com on May 15, 2013
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Related publications
'Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment', Nicholas Bloom, James Liang, John Roberts and Zhichun Jenny Ying, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1194, March 2013

Related links
Nicholas Bloom webpage
Productivity and Innovation Programme webpage

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