{"id":4314,"date":"2012-05-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4314"},"modified":"2012-05-26T05:18:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T09:18:28","slug":"does-working-from-home-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/does-working-from-home-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Working From Home Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052412_2327_DoesWorking1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>10% of America&#8217;s workforce now regularly works from home write Nicholas Bloom, James Liang, John Roberts and Zhichun Jenny Ying. What effect does this have on productivity? Their research suggestes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over a 9 month period there was a 12% increase in performance for those who opted to work from home.<\/li>\n<li>8.5% of that was due to people working more minutes because they took fewer breaks and fewer sick days.<\/li>\n<li>3.5% of that performance boost was due to more productive use of time, likely due to a quieter environment.<\/li>\n<li>Those who worked from home also reported higher job satisfaction, and their attrition rate fell by 50%.<\/li>\n<li>There were no negative consequences for those left over in the office.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read the entire report, its methodology, some more conclusions, some limitations of the study, and what this might mean for businesses, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/~nbloom\/WFH.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/~nbloom\/WFH.pdf\">Stanford<\/a> (.pdf)<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisblattman.com\/2012\/05\/03\/working-or-shirking-from-home\/\">Chris Blattman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10% of America&#8217;s workforce now regularly works from home write Nicholas Bloom, James Liang, John Roberts and Zhichun Jenny Ying. What effect does this have on productivity? Their research suggestes: Over a 9 month period there was a 12% increase in performance for those who opted to work from home. 8.5% of that was due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052412_2327_DoesWorking1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4357,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions\/4357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}