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A fivefold increase in remote work since the pandemic could boost economic growth and bring wider benefits


Economics is famous for being the dismal science. Sadly, recent work highlighting the slowdown in productivity growth stretching back to the 1950s is no exception. But here Nicholas Bloom takes a more cheerful view because of the great productivity gains promised by the pandemic-induced jump in working from home.


Nicholas Bloom

4 September 2024


IMF Finance and Development magazine


https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/09/working-from-home-is-powering-productivity-bloom

This work is published under POID and the CEP's Growth programme.