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America's productivity boom started before AI, and a Stanford economist who decoded the Great Resignation says working from home is the reason why

National data show “a clear post-2020 surge in productivity growth exactly when WFH ramped up,” said Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom.

Fortune

‘Don’t leave’: the remote work guru who nailed the labor market during the Great Resignation offers job advice for 2026

“You don’t want to quit a job to find that what you thought would be easy – getting another job – turns out to be a massive struggle,” Nick Bloom said.

Fortune

CEOs are mandating that employees use AI. They're hardly using it themselves

Business leaders are dangling bonuses and wielding threats to force AI into daily work—yet many barely use the tools themselves, deepening a rift over AI’s risks and rewards.

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Post-Covid home working has failed to level up UK economy, study finds

Prevalence of hybrid over fully remote roles dashes hopes of greater geographical spread of talent

The Guardian - UK

CEOs ignoring math on RTO policies

Some workers are willing to reduce their pay in exchange for remote work

Salon

Is 2025 the Year Workers Will Return to the Office?

Managers want to cut back on remote work, but many employees value flexibility.

Kiplinger

Trump's Executive Orders End Telework For Federal Workers, Axe Job Protections For Thousands

The executive order brings back "Schedule F," that allows many federal employees to be reclassified as political appointees, making it easier to remove workers deemed insufficiently loyal to his administration.

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It’s not just Gen X parents who are enduring a supercommute: Even DINKS and Gen Z are embracing the 5am to 9pm

Supercommuters have surged by 32% since the pandemic, but one millennial DINK says it’ll ‘die out as they get older’

Fortune

The return to office wars are far from over: Half of workers say they’d job hunt or quit to avoid 5 days a week

CEOs issuing RTO mandates risk a talent drain

Fortune

Amazon employees are 'rage-applying' as its return-to-office mandate looms—experts say that's exactly what CEO Andy Jassy wants

The tech mammoth’s RTO push is wildly unpopular—and that could be exactly what it wants.

Fortune

Enforced return to office leads workers to seek new jobs

Recruitment group says more applicants are turning down offers that do not include hybrid working

The Guardian - UK

Amazon’s RTO charge is just layoffs in disguise, experts say

The tech mammoth’s RTO push is wildly unpopular—and that could be exactly what it wants.

Fortune

‘The new normal’: work from home is here to stay, US data shows

The same percentage of employed people who worked remotely in 2023 is the same as the previous year, a survey found

The Guardian - US

Remote work guru Nick Bloom thinks we'll never go back to the office full-time—but 'maintaining discipline is important'

“The most creative mode seems to be for individuals spending time both in groups and working alone.”

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Bosses and workers still can't agree on whether the commute is part of the work day

When it comes to remote work (and whether it’s actually as productive as being in the office), the problem boils down to differences in perspective.

The Independent UK

E2E 100 partner IWG Plc reveals why enterprises are fully embracing the hybrid model

The way we work has been in flux for several years, says IWG’s Chief Commercial Officer Fatima Koning - but as the dust settles, it’s clear that the hybrid model is best for people, profits and the planet

The Independent UK

E2E 100 partner IWG: how CFOs are reassessing their real-estate footprint in the face of the economic downturn

As we navigate an increasingly uncertain economic landscape, adopting a hybrid work model unarguably delivers a win-win for CFOs and the employees of businesses everywhere, says Mark Dixon, Founder and CEO of IWG.

The Guardian - US

‘The office is for socializing’: how work from home has revolutionized work

Even as some firms are mandating workers come into the office, work from home has permanently changed the work landscape

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Remote work is more popular in English-speaking countries. Experts can’t figure out why

It’s probably owing to management style and culture, Nick Bloom posits—but no one can say for sure.

Fortune

WFH's staunchest proponents just dropped a bomb: Fully remote workers are less productive

Fully remote work is associated with 10% to 20% lower productivity than fully in-person work, WFH Research finds.

Fortune

Your workers feel that a full return to the office is like a 2% to 3% pay cut

Going back to watercooler conversations a full five days a week makes employees want to quit as much as their pay getting cut, a Federal Reserve survey found.

Fortune

New data shows WFH is dying out. A remote work guru says that's false

More than 72% of firms said employees worked remotely rarely or not at all last year. But Nick Bloom says it's hard to make conclusions based on that.

The Guardian - UK

What Jacob Rees-Mogg, Alan Sugar and the Daily Mail get wrong about home working

While the right rails against ‘lazy layabouts’ and ‘woke workplaces’, workers know productivity and happiness can improve, says professor of organisational behaviour André Spicer

Tribune News Service

Remote work could save firms $206 billion and ease pressure on the Fed

The rise of remote work could make the Federal Reserve’s task of taming inflation a bit easier, while saving employers more than $200 billion, according to new research.

Tribune News Service

Denver’s largest skyscraper in 40 years set to rise at 1900 Lawrence

The pandemic sent a majority of office workers home in March 2020, and many have yet to return, putting pressure on office markets across the country, including in Denver, where nearly a fourth of the leasable office space in the first quarter was classified as vacant.

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