A fivefold increase in remote work since the pandemic could boost economic growth and bring wider benefits
Economics is famous for being the dismal science. Sadly, recent work highlighting the slowdown in productivity growth stretching back to the 1950s is no exception. But here Nicholas Bloom takes a more cheerful view because of the great productivity gains promised by the pandemic-induced jump in working from home.
4 September 2024
IMF Finance and Development magazine
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/09/working-from-home-is-powering-productivity-bloom
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