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Working from home is making you more productive

Recode Daily

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Science, Technology, Society & Culture

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Quick, go tell your boss! And read Recode senior reporter Rani Molla’s story here: https://www.vox.com/recode/23129752/work-from-home-productivity Today’s episode was produced by Taylor Maycan, engineered by Melissa Pons (Hemlock Creek Productions) and hosted by Adam Clark Estes. Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

When you can't quite get the angle, take hands-free selfies with the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5,

0:05.2

stand it up, step back, and your photos are also synced to your Chromebook, ready to edit.

0:10.8

The new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Chromebook, available on Vodafone.

0:20.4

It's Rico Daily. I'm Adam Clark Estes.

0:23.4

For a couple years now, about 40% of workers in the United States have been rocking the

0:30.4

Business On Top pajamas on the bottom look. I'm one of them. In fact, almost every episode of

0:36.8

Rico Daily that I've hosted has been taped from the cozy confines of my closet in Brooklyn.

0:42.6

But hey, I've gotten the hang of it over the years, and I'm not the only one who's feeling more

0:48.3

confident. Ronnie Mola, senior data reporter for RicoD and a fellow work from Homer,

0:54.6

how's it been going for the other remote workers out there?

0:58.1

Generally, people who've worked from Homer saying that they've become more productive

1:02.5

than they were when they were thrown into remote work at the beginning of 2020. Earlier on,

1:07.2

they said there were about 5% more productive, and now they're a whole 10% more productive.

1:12.3

At the same time, a lot of companies are also asking that their office workers come back into

1:17.4

the office, so there's a lot of tension there. How do we know that workers are actually more

1:27.1

productive at home? Like, how do you even measure that? Well, we know that because they're saying

1:32.9

they're more productive. There's the Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom. He and some other academics

1:38.4

has been asking knowledge workers, people who work on their computers over the course of the

1:42.4

pandemic, how productive they've been relative to working in the office.

1:46.6

Okay, well, not to be a Debbie down here, but it's totally subjective. You can feel more

1:50.8

productive at home, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you are more productive at home.

1:54.9

Yes, take this data with a grain of salt. The vast majority of people who can work from home

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