Entrepreneur:
The tough tradeoffs we make deciding to work from home or not
18 June 2015
Professor Nicholas Bloom from the Department of Economics at Stanford University, with his graduate student James Liang, conducted an interesting experiment at Chinese travel website Ctrip's call center. Employees could choose to work from home for a period of nine months. The results of the study were surprising, to say the least.
This article was published online by Entrepreneur on June 18, 2015
Link to article here
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
Nick Bloom webpage
Productivity and Innovation Programme webpage