All Blog Posts
These blog posts are written by TAP academics, TAP staff members, and on occasion by guest bloggers. TAP’s purpose for this section of the site is to present information, points of view, research, and debates directly from the academics and guest experts.
Blog Results: 10
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Nicholas Bloom Discusses the Future of Work in a Post-Pandemic World
Publication Date: February 13, 2023
Stanford economics professor Nicholas Bloom shared his learnings from two decades of researching remote work on the Recalibrate Reality podcast. Professor Bloom states, “The reality of 2022 onwards is that hybrid is here to stay.”
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Nicholas BloomTAP Scholar
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Nicholas Bloom Discusses the Future of Work from Home
Publication Date: October 28, 2022
Stanford economics professor Nicholas Bloom joins Prof Nirvikar Singh, University of California, Santa Cruz, to discuss the future of work on the “Ideas for India” podcast. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work has become the norm for many organizations. This has raised questions about worker productivity and equity, work-life balance, and the future of commuting and cities.
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Nicholas BloomTAP Scholar
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Nicholas Bloom Shares WFH Research and the Business Impact of Hybrid Work
Publication Date: September 16, 2022
Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom shares takeaways from his research over the past two and a half years on remote and hybrid work.
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Nicholas BloomTAP Scholar
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Nicholas Bloom: How COVID-19 and Remote Work Have and Have Not Reshaped America’s Cities
Publication Date: April 18, 2022
Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom is widely known for his research on remote work and best management practices. This post focuses on how the work-from-home transformation triggered by the pandemic is impacting city centers and suburbs.
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Nicholas BloomTAP Scholar
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Nicholas Bloom Discusses the Ups and Downs of Remote Work
Publication Date: October 26, 2020
Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom, widely known for his research on remote work, shares his expertise about the ups and downs of working from home.
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Nicholas BloomTAP Scholar
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An Early Look at the U.S. Data Regarding COVID-19 and Remote Work
Publication Date: September 28, 2020
Erik Brynjolfsson and colleagues share findings from a study that looked at the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on remote work.
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Erik BrynjolfssonTAP Scholar
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Covid-19 and the Workplace Revolution
Publication Date: August 4, 2020
Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom has studied working-from-home (WFH) and its impact on employees, firms, and societies for many years. In this article, he presents new results from a US survey on WFH during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Nicholas Bloom Addresses Working from Home Challenges During COVID-19
Publication Date: March 31, 2020
Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom discusses how the current global ‘working remotely’ movement caused by COVID-19 restrictions differs from the benefits he identified in his work-from-home research conducted in 2015.
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Nicholas BloomTAP Scholar
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Nicholas Bloom Shares Findings from His Telecommuting Experiment
Publication Date: April 9, 2013
The New York Times “Room for Debate” section asked TAP scholar Nicholas Bloom to help answer the question: What is lost or gained when workers telecommute?
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Nicholas BloomTAP Scholar
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Nicholas Bloom Examines How IT Can Improve Work-Life Balance with Telecommuting
Publication Date: November 28, 2011
Nicholas Bloom, Associate Professor of Economics at Stanford University, discussed his recent research on how information technology is transforming the workplace with telecommuting. His paper, “Working from Home or Shirking from Home? A Chinese Field Experiment” asks if firms benefit from letting their employees telecommute.
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Nicholas BloomTAP Scholar