Study Finds Hybrid Employees Are Happier, More Productive And Not About To Come In More Often

An academic study on the effects of hybrid work has found that staff who work from home two days a week are significantly happier than they were working in an office full time. They`re quite a bit more productive, too.

The recent shift to more remote work has also assisted the creation of new business startups, according to Stanford University William D. Eberle professor of economics Nick Bloom, who spoke about his findings on the Freakonomics podcast this week.

Bloom has been studying the impacts of working from home on business for almost a decade. In 2014, he conducted an experiment at trip.com, an online Chinese travel agency that is the third biggest in the world..
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RSK: Hybrid work schedules are here to stay in most office workers lives. The downside of this is a loss of tax revenue for cities so the residential home owners may see their taxes increase or services diminished.