The Human Side of Remote Work, with Nick Bloom
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The Effects of Remote Work on Mental Wellbeing
Dr. Nick Bloom is an economist from Stanford who has been studying remote work since before 9-11. People hate commuting even more than they hate work, he says. If you let people work from home at least two days a week, it looks like that clearly improves kind of mental wellbeing and work life balance. It's less obvious once you start to go four or five days a week because you get this offsetting effect of more isolation.
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