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

Bloom, Nicholas; Liang, James; Roberts, John; Jenny Ying, Zhichun

doi:10.1093/qje/qju032

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

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics • Nov 20, 2014

Authors:

Nicholas Bloom

James Liang

John Roberts

Abstract

Abstract A rising share of employees now regularly engage in working from home (WFH), but there are concerns this can lead to “shirking from home.” We report the results of a WFH experiment at Ctrip, a 16,000-employee, NASDAQ-listed Chinese travel agency. Call center employees who volunteered to WFH...

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