Fully Remote New Hires Show 18% Drop in Productivity, Study Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-04/fully-remote-work-leads-to-18-drop-in-productivity-study-finds

by rsgoheen • 3 years ago

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LatteLazy• 3 years ago

Of course, if a remote hire is 20% cheaper then that's a net win. And in many cities the cost of providing an office alone can be that big, even without the higher salaries often needed for in person workers...

Oh and this is:

* In India

* For newly hired workers

* Doing data entry

* Randomly assigned to home/office not choosing to be there

More heat, but still no actual light.

https://archive.ph/edzP9

rsgoheen• 3 years ago

Full NBER paper here: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31515/w315...

From the paper's abstract: "We conduct an RCT in the data entry sector in India that exogenously allocates workers to the home or office. We find that the productivity of workers randomly assigned to working from home is 18% lower than those in the office."

Fully Remote New Hires Show 18% Drop in Productivity, Study Says

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