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Study finds work-from-home employees more productive than office workers
18 May 2018
Those who work from home are more productive than people who work in an office, according to a new two-year study. The ground-breaking experiment, conducted by Stanford University professor Nicholas Bloom, showed an astounding productivity boost among the telecommuters and a decrease in attrition, according to Thrive Global. To conduct the study, Bloom enlisted the help of former Stanford student James Liang, who is now the co-founder and CEO of Ctrip, China's largest travel agency, with 16,000 employees.
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Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom ran a two-year randomized experiment tracking 500 employees of CTRIP: half were assigned to work from home and other half to continue working in the office. Guess what? Working from home massively improved employees’ productivity. And their job satisfaction—quit rates decreased by 50 percent in the work from home group. And of course, society benefited from less pollution and traffic from all those commutes. Article here and Bloom’s TEDx talk here (skip to 7:10 for discussion of the study).
http://www.sightline.org/2018/05/18/weekend-reading-5-18-2018/
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