A May 29 paper (lead Erik Brynjolfsson) reports, “Of those employed pre-COVID-19, we find that about half are now working from home, including 35.2% who report they were commuting and recently switched to working from home.” And: “We find that the share of people switching to remote work can be predicted by the incidence of COVID-19 and that younger people were more likely to switch to remote work.” It’ll be really interesting to see how many of those new work-at-homers go back to the office once the pandemic cools off.
Tags: business trends, covid-19