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Is working from home better than working in the office?
24 July 2017
Although workforces are becoming more spread out and technologies such as videoconferencing are making workplaces more fluid, employees who work exclusively from home are still getting a bad rap. Their jobs aren’t viewed as legitimate, and they aren’t as valued as their more traditional counterparts. However, this notion isn’t necessarily based in reality. According to Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Nicholas Bloom, requiring employees to be in the office is an outdated work tradition. Such inflexibility ignores employee desires needlessly and actually hurts employers and their workers. “Working from home is a future-looking technology,” Bloom said during TEDxStanford, which took place in April. “I think it has enormous potential.”
Related publications
Does working from home work? Evidence from a Chinese experiment, Nicholas Bloom, James Liang, John Roberts and Zhichun Jenny Ying, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 130(1), February 2015
Working or shirking? Nicholas Bloom, James Liang, John Roberts and Zhichun Jenny Ying. Article in CentrePiece Volume 17, Issue 3, Winter 2012