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Peter Lambert and Yannick Schindler's research into reasons for a fall in entry-level hiring, shows the drop off began after Covid and before AI, John Burn-Murdoch discusses their findings in his Data Points column. ... Read more...
29 May 2026
The Port Talbot steel works is closing its last remaining blast furnace, delivering a shattering blow to the economy and society of a South Wales town where employment and wages were once so strong it became known as Tre... Read more...
15 September 2024
Daniel Chandler discusses how the Labour party can develop a "good jobs" policy where work would provide dignity and respect for everyone, and be a key source of people’s meaning and wellbeing. ... Read more...
19 February 2024
Working from home keeps employees happy, reduces pollution by cutting billions of commuting miles and supports millions of employees with care and disability challenges in work. Nick Bloom reviews the existing data on wo... Read more...
29 September 2023
Nick Bloom explores the forces driving the predicted increase in remote work over the coming decade. He outlines that working from home will benefit firms, employees and society. ... Read more...
29 August 2023
Nick Bloom in conversation on a surprising find from the pandemic: remote work is fuelling economic growth. ... Read more...
02 June 2022
A survey by Jack Blundell, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura finds one in five self-employed workers plan to switch to other forms of employment because of Covid-19. ... Read more...
10 November 2020
Survey findings from Jack Blundell, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura finds the trend of more people working for themselves under threat during the Covid-19 pandemic. A fifth of the self-employed... Read more...
During late September and early October, just 59 per cent of pupils benefitted from “full schooling”, says new report. ... Read more...
26 October 2020
BBC Panorama reports on CEP research, fiding people aged 16-25 were more than twice as likely as older workers to have lost their job, while six in 10 saw their earnings fall, according to new research. ... Read more...
Congratulations to Dr Swati Dhingra, associate professor of economics at the Centre for Economic Performance, who has won the People's Choice Award at the ONS research excellence awards 2019. The ONS's research excell... Read more...
04 November 2019
A new data set helps address the lack of innovation data able to capture firms' internal mechanisms and behaviours, write Max Nathan and Anna Cecilia Rosso. What Works Well Centre for Economic Growth... Read more...
02 October 2019
Some commentators argue that globalisation is systematically connected to the real-wage and productivity stagnation seen across the developed world. This column analyses the relationship between international trade and w... Read more...
01 October 2019
Prof Stephen Machin, at the London School of Economics, says on the decline in membership: "It is not because of getting rid of unions where they are already in place, it is actually the failure to organise new workplace... Read more...
22 September 2019
Prof Stephen Machin at the London School of Economics says on the decline in membership: "It is not because of getting rid of unions where they are already in place, it is actually the failure to organise new workplaces.... Read more...
21 September 2019
2019 winner: Sara Signorelli (Paris School of Economics) Do skilled migrants compete with native workers? Analysis of a selective immigration policy ... Read more...
More structured managerial practices have a strong relationship with firm productivity, writes Daniela Scur. ... Read more...
09 September 2019
Opinion: We asked 20,000 people their preferences on shifting employment patterns This piece was written by Nikhil Datta, Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin at LSE’s Centre for Economic Perf... Read more...
18 October 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, sho... Read more...
18 May 2018
Professor Nicholas Bloom led this research developed over two years on the basis of 500 workers of Ctrip, a technology securities company based in China. Ctrip has a payroll of approximately 16,000 employees. ... Read more...
17 May 2018
A study conducted by Nicholas Bloom, an economics expert at Stanford University, showed that working from home increases the productivity of workers by up to 13 percent, and employees did not wear out as much.... Read more...
16 May 2018
Although telecommuting is not yet universal, its adoption by technology giants and startups is very telling. Accordingly, many perks account for the meteoric rise of this nascent shift. On the employees’... Read more...
09 May 2018
Research from two economists, published in a working paper by the London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance, notes that certain populations — such as working parents — may be even ... Read more...
02 May 2018
Pointing out the weaknesses of the small business, Professor Nicholas Bloom and his colleagues developed a survey instrument for measuring business quality. According to the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Ind... Read more...
More industries have embraced remote positions in response to the desires of an evolving workforce, with a study by Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom finding that working remotely was directly tied to increase... Read more...
As urban traffic gets more and more jammed, housing prices in urban centers are getting higher and higher, commuting distances are getting longer and longer, and professional women have family burns in their h... Read more...
26 April 2018
"The management of the company was a bit pessimistic," says researcher Nicholas Bloom in a Ted Talk about the research. "They expected the homeworkers to go to bed.&nb... Read more...
23 April 2018
One notable study was conducted in 2015 by Stanford University researcher Nicholas Bloom, who wanted to test whether the belief that workers slack off more when working from home was valid. Bloom and his crew ... Read more...
22 April 2018
Mautz cites a two-year study conducted by Stanford economics professor Nicholas Bloom, where 250 of 500 employees from China-based travel agency Ctrip volunteered to work from home. Then, over the 24 months, t... Read more...
17 April 2018
7. Focus on Thursday: Even if you’re no longer working Monday to Friday, that weekend feeling still affects you. But, surprisingly, it’s not in fact Friday that boosts people’s moods th... Read more...
SWINDON, United Kingdom – The Economic and Social Research Council(ESRC) has announced that the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC), the What Works Centre for Loca... Read more...
16 April 2018
The creators of NEUARBEITEN explain why working from home in this country is still a niche topic and how it can still benefit employees and employers. … Home office offers employees one thing above all:... Read more...
22 March 2018
Article by John Van Reenen A 15-year survey of 12,000 firms across 34 countries shows that management practices explain a large share of productivity gaps. Income differences between rich and poor countries... Read more...
18 January 2018
A study conducted in 2013 by Nicholas Bloom, professor of economics at Stanford University, and graduate student James Liang, who is a co-founder of Chinese travel website Ctrip, proved that working at home in... Read more...
15 January 2018
IBM recently made headlines for dismantling its policy that allowed remote work. The technology giant was following in the footsteps of Yahoo Inc., which in 2013 also called its employees back to the office, s... Read more...
03 January 2018
Work from home or go to an office: which kind of workers are happier and more efficient? For the first time – surprisingly – there’s some solid academic research on the subject, led by a Stan... Read more...
14 December 2017
Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Nicholas Bloom said in a TED talk earlier this year that requiring employees to be in the office is an outdated tradition that doesn’t take into a... Read more...
05 December 2017
The four UK Higher Education Funding Bodies have announced the appointment of the chairs of the 34 sub-panels for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021. ... Read more...
01 December 2017
Parents with young children are ‘substantially’ less productive than their colleagues, due to a lack of sleep As every parent of a newborn knows, sleep is a foreign country, a place that they happi... Read more...
14 November 2017
Work-life balance, job variety, autonomy and learning new things make us happier at work; blue-collar workers are less happy than others, write Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward. ... Read more...
13 November 2017
One of the most remarkable studies done to measure telecommuters’ performance was conducted by Stanford University. Led by Professor Nicholas Bloom, a team of scholars performed a Work From Home (WFH) ex... Read more...
31 October 2017
09:49 AM BST Work and Pensions and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee question Director of Labour Market Enforcement The following link will allow you to view a copy of the updated inform... Read more...
24 October 2017
Article by John Van Reenen. When people discuss what drives long-run productivity, they usually focus on technical change. But productivity is about more than robots, new drugs and self-driving vehicles.... Read more...
18 October 2017
When it comes to debating a work-from-home policy, there are two schools of thought on the subject. While one group believes employees will abuse the system and productivity will be lost, the other believes th... Read more...
06 October 2017
According to a survey conducted by Stanford University Professor of Economics Nicholas Bloom in Singapore, those who work from home are happier than those who work in the office. We asked the people who work a... Read more...
01 October 2017
This is stated in the unique study of Stanford University economics professor Nicholas Bloom. According to the study, the number of people working from home has tripled in the last 30 years. However, the numbe... Read more...
30 September 2017
And if your boss is on the fence, here’s a compelling case study — from economics professor Nicholas Bloom — to show her. Imagine a person working from home. If you pictured somebody in pajam... Read more...
20 September 2017
As outlined at TED, research conducted by Stanford University economics professor Nicholas Bloom shows companies could not only benefit from a reduction in costs associated with office space, but also see impr... Read more...
05 September 2017
Researchers are divided on whether bad jobs are worse for wellbeing than unemployment, write Tony Beatton, Paul Frijters and Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee Given a generally stronger social norm for men to be ... Read more...
04 August 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 ar... Read more...
24 July 2017
But it seems that the assumption is just a false assumption-if it can not be wrong. In fact, reported Inc.com report on Tuesday (07/17/2017), Professor Nicholas Bloom as an economist from Stanford recently exp... Read more...
18 July 2017
But what many ignore or is difficult to accept, is that when working from home, productivity increases. The latest statement is reflected in a study by Nicholas Bloom, a researcher at Stanford University, who ... Read more...
Nicholas Bloom, a professor at Stanford University, was interested in the phenomenon of working from home, a particular mode of work that allows employees of a company to stay at home rather than going into sp... Read more...
16 July 2017
Nicholas Bloom, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, conducted a study on a large, multi-thousand research group: employees of a Chinese travel company Ctrip. Have not you heard of her? Not... Read more...
12 July 2017
Working from home gets a bad rap. Google the phrase and examine the results—you’ll see scams or low-level jobs, followed by links calling out “legitimate” virtual jobs. But Stanford Gra... Read more...
The same report by academics (John F. Helliwell, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Vancouver School of Economics Richard Layard, Director, London School of Economics, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Columbia Univ... Read more...
At which point a little thumbnail sketch of what we're worried about in the US labour market. Traditionally the US has had very little long term unemployment. Sure, the general rate rose in recessions, fel... Read more...
07 July 2017
In the July episode of the #LSEIQ podcast we ask, ‘What can Brexit tell us about the white working class?’ One year on from the European Referendum, this demographic has been scrutinised for their ... Read more...
05 July 2017
Encouraging better work-life balance does not lead to higher productivity, academics at London School of Economics found. Neither does forcing workers into miserable servitude. Related publications &lsqu... Read more...
26 June 2017
Nick Bloom – a Stanford GSB expert shows how companies and employees benefit from workplace flexibility. Related publications Does working from home work? Evidence from a Chinese experiment, Nichol... Read more...
22 June 2017
Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Nicholas Bloom says requiring employees to be in the office is an outdated work tradition, set up during the Industrial Revolution. Such inflexibility ignores tod... Read more...
Article by Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo. Family-oriented policies – such as parental leave, childcare support, and flexible work arrangements – are in place in all high-income countries,... Read more...
03 June 2017
Article by Joan Costa-i-font and Sara Flèche Sleep is often overlooked in economic models despite its obvious restorative effects on human health alongside its influence on brain plasticity and feeli... Read more...
06 April 2017
When Joan Costa-Font became a father, the health economist noticed a dramatic drop in his productivity. “And I am the man,” he said, acknowledging that the effect was clearly worse on his wife. ... Read more...
17 February 2017
Snippet: ...Mention of LSE research on productivity in UK compared to productivity in France and Germany ... that LSE researchers suggest that by Thursday lunchtime the other countries have produced... Read more...
23 January 2017
This is the consensus finding of a survey of leading wellbeing researchers from around the world, writes Paul Frijters. Related articles: World Wellbeing Panel Survey: ‘Wellbeing and Public Holi... Read more...
22 December 2016
Consume magazine content increases the well-being of 6% Professor Paul Dolan of the London School of Economics and Political Science, a world authority on Positive Psychology and happiness, largely inspired... Read more...
05 December 2016
Dennis Novy was interviewed live on LBC radio with Nick Ferrari on 24 August 2016. The topic was Brexit and whether we should have a second referendum. The background was Owen Smith's announcement of having a second refe... Read more...
24 August 2016
New initiatives planned to end 'unacceptable and unlawful' discrimination against working women Employers are being told to do more to help mothers breastfeed their babies at work, as part of the government's latest i... Read more...
15 August 2016
Article by Ghazala Azmat and Rosa Ferrer Gender gaps in earnings exist in high-skill industries despite male and female workers having similar educational backgrounds. This column uses evidence from the legal industry t... Read more...
12 July 2016
A bad few days for the image of Britain's retail sector PARLIAMENTARY committees are normally sleepy affairs. Backbench MPs get the chance to grill the occasional bigwig. By replying to questions succinctly witnesses ty... Read more...
11 June 2016
State of Working Britain blog, article posted by Jonathan Wadsworth Immigration has for some years been the uppermost worry among the issues thought to be facing Britain in many opinion polls so it - or rather people's... Read more...
11 May 2016
Article by Jonathan Wadsworth Welcome back. The Bank of England has a regular labour market commentary in its quarterly bulletin in which it looks at issues that may influence productivity, wage pressure and hence infla... Read more...
18 April 2016
In the latest State of Working Britain blog, editor Professor Jonathan Wadsworth writes: Common Mis-Perceptions About Recent UK Labour Market Performance No 1. A Record number of people in work The opening sentenc... Read more...
01 March 2016
Latest State of Working Britain blog by Jonathan Wadsworth The central message is that it would be wrong to conclude from analysis of the net change in employment that migrants take all new jobs. Rather the net change i... Read more...
09 February 2016
In the first of a new blog from LSE's Centre for Economic Performance, Jonathan Wadsworth comments on the issue of full employment in the UK. This article was published online by the CEP's The State of Working Britain b... Read more...
26 January 2016
Article by Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen There is a long history of debate within business, policy, and economic literature regarding whether firms can improve their performance by tr... Read more...
18 December 2015
Chancellor George Osborne survived the Bush Tucker trial that was Wednesday's spending review. ... Professor John Van Reenen, director of the Centre for Economic Performance, said: ''The sexy centrefold was a naked rever... Read more...
28 November 2015
Henry Overman interviewed by Philip Salter It's easy to make policy, but it's hard to make the right ones. These are the sorts of questions the excellent What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth looks at. It recently... Read more...
25 September 2015
Leaders could also test whether specific work conditions or policies affect workers' performance. ... Nick Bloom of Stanford University and his colleagues conducted a randomized experiment on working from home using a NA... Read more...
20 August 2015
A society where more workers got to use the duvet office would be a happier, more productive one In 2014, Stanford University academics compared the performance of remote employees to those in the office at Ctrip, China... Read more...
05 August 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 ... Read more...
18 June 2015
A new study of 17 countries published this week found the introduction of robots to the workplace increased economic growth by 0.37 percentage points and labor productivity by a similar margin. What's more, ''no signific... Read more...
11 March 2015
Should we follow the British economist Sir Richard Layard? ''According to him, work contributes to happiness insofar as it contributes to the society and gives some meaning to the life of the worker'', says Cyril Perrier... Read more...
29 January 2015
During Tuesday's State of the Union address, President Barack Obama announced his plan to expand paid leave for workers, starting with the federal government. Even with three months available to them, few Americans can t... Read more...
21 January 2015
Article by Paul Dolan Being happy at work is important. Studies suggest that if you're not happy at work, you're less productive, more likely to take days off sick, and a poor problem solver. Still, some people mainta... Read more...
20 November 2014
It is generally agreed that firms can improve their employees' wellbeing through improvements in job quality - but is it in their economic interests to do so? This column reports research showing that satisfied employee... Read more...
17 November 2014
Nick Bloom and his colleagues studied 700 firms around the world. ''We find more productive, faster growing and better managed firms offer their employees a more attractive work-life balance package'', Bloom said in an e... Read more...
23 October 2014
Is there a future for industry in Europe and North America? Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Gianmarco Ottaviano use the example of the newly merged transatlantic car-maker Fiat Chrysler to debunk a number of myths about the ... Read more...
20 October 2014
Studies show that fears about remote workers being 'untrustworthy' and less productive are unfounded; a 2013 study by the London School of Economics and Political Science found that employees able to work from home are m... Read more...
16 October 2014
Is the mid-life crisis just an excuse? However, a study published earlier this year found that an average decrease of subjective happiness, or welfare as described by economists in middle age, between 40 and 42 years oc... Read more...
14 October 2014
Of course with newer forms of technology, showing up for work on time need not mean being physically at a given workplace. A study by the economists Nicholas Bloom, John Roberts and Zhichun Ying of Stanford and James Lia... Read more...
27 September 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 ... Read more...
06 June 2014
Johtajuus voi selittaa neljanneksen tai jopa kolmanneksen eroista kokonaistuottavuudessa maiden ja yritysten valilla. Taloustieteilijoiden Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur ja John Van Reenen tu... Read more...
22 May 2014
Economist Alan Manning of the London School of Economics also found that the pace of the declines in the pay gap has slowed down, and that working women could make less than men for the next 150 years due to discriminati... Read more...
02 April 2014
Professors at Harvard Business School, the London School of Economics and Columbia University's business school examined the schedules of 356 chief executives in India and found that family CEOs worked 8 percent fewer ho... Read more...
07 March 2014
An online network aims to bring policymakers together with academics studying higher education, potentially stimulating new research on neglected areas such as the effectiveness of access spending. The ''Economics of Hig... Read more...
21 November 2013
Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom took employees at a huge Chinese travel agency and randomly assigned some to work from home while others worked in the office. Sure enough, in terms of sheer amount of work, the stay-at-... Read more...
15 May 2013
The research aims to develop a much clearer picture of what business leaders and top management teams can do to develop their organizations and become more innovative. A large-scale research project conducted by McKinsey... Read more...
13 December 2011
Familienunternehmen sind die besten Firmen überhaupt? Und wenn die Rahmenbedingungen eines Landes nicht stimmen, scheitert selbst der erfolgreichste Manager? Diese beiden Glaubenssätze haven Wirtschaftsprofessor Nicholas... Read more...
27 May 2010