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“What’s happening now is more companies that thought they could survive are giving up,” said Nicholas Bloom. “The most painful time to lose your job may well be coming up.”

“The euphoria [of working from home] is kind of peaking,” says SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.

“We’re all suffering from Zoom overload and feeling worn down," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.

A 2015 study by SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom found that allowing employees to work from home four out of five days a week yielded significant productivity gains.

“Training is not something that can be just left to the private sector . . . ultimately you are going to need public investment,” said Erik Brynjolfsson.

The explosion of working from home, coupled with anti-immigration administration policies, “creates the perfect storm for shifting high-tech jobs overseas,” said Nick Bloom.

Employees have no legal recourse against colleagues who they feel aren’t doing enough—or going overboard—to prevent the spread of COVID-19, said SIEPR Senior Fellow Alison Morantz.

A 2016 paper by SIEPR economists “suggests that black-owned businesses have more difficulty in accessing formal credit channels…[...]

A report by David Grusky found that from 2008 and 2016, the mortality rates of people between the ages of 25 and 34 increased 20%, largely because of suicides and drug overdoses.

“You can’t run an economy with so many people aged 30 to 45 missing...You just have younger and older workers and none of the middle-aged people working,” said Nicholas Bloom.

“I’m a firm believer in post-Covid half time in the office," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom found that employees who worked from home were more productive, needed fewer sick days, and took less time off. "9-to-5 actually became 9-to-5."

A 2014 experiment run by Nick Bloom showed that telecommuting increased productivity by 13%—employees worked more minutes per shift & took more calls while working from home.

Co-sponsored by SIEPR and the ��ɫ��Ӱ Economics Association, the COVID-19 Policy Hackathon drew more than 800 participants from 78 countries.

“I fear that the prominence of the city, and particularly city centers, will decline,” said SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom discusses unemployment in California.

Nick Bloom discusses the "Ikea-ization” of office costs—a reference to the way the Swedish superstores helped shift the responsibility for assembly from the seller to the customer.

SIEPR Visiting Prof. Rob Fairlie's recent study shows the number of active business owners in the US plunged by 22% from February to April due to coronavirus.

Will working from home endure after the pandemic? SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom explores the future of the virtual workplace in this WBUR audio segment.