{"id":101572,"date":"2021-04-23T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=101572"},"modified":"2021-04-23T08:48:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:48:15","slug":"fortune-adoption-of-work-from-home-will-lift-productivity-by-5-in-the-u-s-according-to-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=101572","title":{"rendered":"(Fortune) Adoption of work from home will lift productivity by 5% in the U.S., according to new study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great work-from-home experiment occasioned by the pandemic has divided opinion in the corporate suite and sparked endless debates about whether employees work as effectively from the kitchen table as they do from the office.<\/p>\n<p>A new study finds that, in fact, remote work does indeed make us more productive.<\/p>\n<p>The work-from-home boom will lift productivity in the U.S. economy by 5%, mostly because of <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2021\/04\/17\/remote-work-home-hybrid-model-future\/\">savings<\/a> in commuting time, the study says. The findings suggest the rapid adoption of new technology amid the pandemic will offer lasting economic gains, helping to boost sluggish productivity that has long weighed on global growth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2021\/04\/22\/work-from-home-productivity-covid-wfh\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Adoption of work from home will lift productivity by 5% in the U.S., according to new study <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ygGf5IlRHW\">https:\/\/t.co\/ygGf5IlRHW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FORTUNE (@FortuneMagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FortuneMagazine\/status\/1385405821497102336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great work-from-home experiment occasioned by the pandemic has divided opinion in the corporate suite and sparked endless debates about whether employees work as effectively from the kitchen table as they do from the office. A new study finds that,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=101572\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[597],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101575,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101572\/revisions\/101575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}