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Why homeworking is bad for your career

6 June 2014

In 2013, Nicholas Bloom and his colleagues published a study they ran with Ctrip, a Chinese travel agency. Bloom et al conducted a randomised controlled trial with employees from the company's call centres. One group of workers stayed in the centres while the other answered customer calls from their own homes.

This article was published in The Financial Times on June 6, 2014
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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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