Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment
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Bloom, Nicholas; Liang, James; Roberts, John L.; Ying, Zhichun Jenny

doi:10.1093/qje/qju032

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“…In Table 6 we turn to where and with whom you are working. Evidence from a recent field experiment in which opportunities to work at home were randomly assigned to workers indicated not only that workers randomly assigned to work at home were more productive than those assigned to remain on company premises, but that they were also more satisfied with their work, had higher psychological attitude scores and were less likely to quit the firm (Bloom et al, 2013). Kahneman et al (2004) show working at home is associated with greater enjoyment, and that this is not related to feelings of time pressure during working episodes.…”

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Are You Happy While You Work?

Bryson

MacKerron

2016

The Economic Journal

136

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Using a new data source permitting individuals to record their well‐being via a smartphone, we explore within‐person variance in individuals’ well‐being measured momentarily at random points in time. We find paid work is ranked lower than any of the other 39 activities individuals can report engaging in, with the exception of being sick in bed. Precisely how unhappy one is while working varies significantly with where you work; whether you are combining work with other activities; whether you are alone or with others; and the time of day or night you are working.

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Are You Happy While You Work?

Bryson

MacKerron

2016

The Economic Journal

136

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“…Benefits accrue from reducing the stress [42] of the daily home-work commute, [30,50,51] having greater schedule flexibility and a better work-life balance, [20,28,34,52,53] better life control, and enhanced job satisfaction. [17,[54][55][56][57][58] The effects on health outcomes such as sickness and impairment seem to occur less often with the choice of telework.…”

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Telework and health effects review

Tavares

2017

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Telework is an increasingly popular flexible working arrangement. The aim of this article is to describe the features that characterize telework. The advantages and disadvantages of teleworking are outlined, as well as its effects on the health of the worker. The method used was a literature review. The outputs of this search show that in general, empirical evidence favours a positive association between telework and worker health. However, there are also negative impacts on health such as stress and depression. The overall conclusion is that telework is likely to yield more good than bad for individual health.

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“…Notable papers include Kurland and Egan (1999), Thatcher and Zhu (2006) and Bloom et al (2014). Notes.…”

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Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intrafirm Mobility and Access to Resources

Choudhury¹

2017

Organization Science

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Prior research has established a relation between intra-firm mobility and innovation outcomes at distributed organizations. The literature has also uniformly agreed on the mechanism underlying this relationship: the sharing of tacit knowledge and recombination of ideas that occurs because of intra-firm mobility. But a second mechanism may also be at work: intra-firm mobility might help distant employees secure access to resources for their innovative projects. Using unique data on travel, employment, and patenting for 1,315 inventors at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 50 multinational, I find that intra-firm mobility in the form of short-duration business trips from a distant R&D location to headquarters is positively related to higher subsequent patenting at the individual level. I also find mobility immediately prior to meetings at which R&D funds are most likely to be disbursed to be related to higher subsequent patenting. This study sheds new light on how intra-firm mobility and possible face-to-face interactions with those who allocate resources might affect innovation outcomes and the matching of resources to individuals within a distributed organization.

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Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment *

Cited by 1,290 publications

References 38 publications

Are You Happy While You Work?

Are You Happy While You Work?

Telework and health effects review

Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intrafirm Mobility and Access to Resources

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