IDEA #87
Working from home or shirking from home?
A randomised experiment from China suggests working from home actually works.
What you need to know
James Liang, co-founder and current chairman of the NASDAQ-listed Chinese travel agency Ctrip, wanted to find out if optional homeworking was a sensible policy to implement for his 13,000 employees. With the aid of willing researchers from his alma mater, Stanford, a randomised experiment was set up to this effect. More than 250 workers were split into the trial and control groups for the nine-month experiment; the former worked four days a week from home, the latter were located on site. ...
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