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We study productivity before and during the working from home [WFH] period of the COVID-19 pandemic, using personnel …, including a rise of 18% outside normal business hours. Average output declined slightly, thus productivity fell 8-19%. We then … analyze determinants of changes in productivity. Employees with children at home increased work hours more and had a larger …
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compare productivity before and during the work from home [WFH] period of the Covid-19 pandemic. Total hours worked increased … change. Therefore, productivity fell by about 20%. Time spent on coordination activities and meetings increased, but … constituted an important source of the decline in productivity. Employees with children living at home increased hours worked more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229245
compare productivity before and during the work from home [WFH] period of the Covid-19 pandemic. Total hours worked increased … change. Therefore, productivity fell by about 20%. Time spent on coordination activities and meetings increased, but … constituted an important source of the decline in productivity. Employees with children living at home increased hours worked more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088603
compare productivity before and during the work from home [WFH] period of the Covid-19 pandemic. Total hours worked increased … change. Therefore, productivity fell by about 20%. Time spent on coordination activities and meetings increased, but … constituted an important source of the decline in productivity. Employees with children living at home increased hours worked more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517774
The future of teleworking ultimately depends on its impact on workers' productivity and wellbeing, yet the effect of … remote working on productivity is not well understood. This paper investigates the link between personality traits and … workers' productivity when working from home. We exploit a survey providing measures of the "Big Five" personality traits for …
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The future of teleworking ultimately depends on its impact on workers' productivity and wellbeing, yet the effect of … remote working on productivity is not well understood. This paper investigates the link between personality traits and … workers' productivity when working from home. We exploit a survey providing measures of the "Big Five" personality traits for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013343364
In recent decades, information and communication technology (ICT) has been associated with far-reaching changes in the design of jobs. However, it still remains unclear whether these changes will lead to more centralization or more decentralization in firms. Previous literature on this debate...
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In recent decades, information and communication technology (ICT) has been associated with far-reaching changes in the design of jobs. However, it still remains unclear whether these changes will lead to more centralization or more decentralization in firms. Previous literature on this debate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013345858
of automotive plant productivity as part of the International Motor Vehicle Program, the systematic observation … for much of the early research on worker productivity. However as we have now seen an inexorable shift towards more … productivity has also increasingly focused on services. This monograph will take stock of the literature in operations management …
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Productivity spill-overs within firms have commonly been used as a proxy measure for organizational learning. Using … such productivity spill-over in two directions. First, I find that spatial distance within firms matters greatly for the … strengths of productivity spill-overs, while product complexity matters little. This has important implications for firms in …
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