{"id":61,"date":"2025-01-08T20:58:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T20:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyfted.blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2025-05-22T13:41:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T13:41:44","slug":"benefits-of-employee-remote-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gyfted.me\/resources\/blog\/benefits-of-employee-remote-work","title":{"rendered":"2014 Stanford University research: Work From Home study proves Benefits of Remote Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Believe it or not, the pandemic hasn\u2019t been the first instance of companies switching to work from home<\/strong> or a hybrid work model. In the United States alone, work from home rates have tripled over the last 30 years. From only 0.75% of American companies allowing for remote work in 1980, to 2.4% in 2010 – just imagine what this rate has been shifted to today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you interested in knowing more about how remote work<\/a> has benefited employees<\/strong> much earlier than before the beginning of the pandemic? This 2014 Stanford University study<\/strong><\/a> by prof Nicholas Bloom was based on a work from home experiment with Ctrip<\/a>, a 16,000-employee, NASDAQ-listed Chinese travel agency, where call center employees, who volunteered to work from home, were randomly assigned either to work from home or in the office for 9 months. Are you wondering what the benefits of work from home were for these employees?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the results in a nutshell: <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Fear of \u2018\u2018shirking from home\u2019\u2019 is unfounded and the gains of learning and selection effects are significant when companies allow employees to benefit from modern management practices ie. working from home \/ remote work\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The experiment was a success:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n