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Work 2.0: The One-Room Commute

Hidden Brain

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Work From Home

A Chinese company ran an experiment to see whether working from home was good or bad in terms of productivity. The workers who went home four days a week came into the office on the fifth day, when they did things that were best to do in person. What you saw was the working from home employees for 13 % more productive than the people in the office. That is an enormous uplift. It's almost a day extra week simply from having the same people in the same team doing the same job and now working at home rather than the office.

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