Stories of Impact

Dr. Nicholas Bloom: What Remote Work Reveals About Equity and Innovation


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Did you know that you are part of one of the most significant revolutions in the last 85 years? If you're one of the 180-million Americans in the labor force, and at some point since the 2020 pandemic, you joined the ranks of work-from-home, you are historically revolutionary.

Today, we sit down with Dr. Nicholas Bloom, economist and professor of economics at Stanford University. He's studied work-from-home habits for over 20 years—so long before covid-19—and now, his data is showing how the revolutionary shift that happened during the pandemic, is reverberating through society and affecting everything from sports and real estate to crime, taxes, and politics.

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