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John Roberts: Does Working from Home Work?

John Roberts says his groundbreaking study of call center workers in China provides the first scientific evidence that working form home can produce big gains in employee productivity. He gives you tips on how to convince your boss to let you work from home, and weighs in on Yahoo's decision to stop allowing its employees to work from home. Roberts is emeritus John H. Scully professor of economics, strategic management and international business at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He conducted the study in collaboration with Stanford economics professor Nicholas Bloom, and Stanford GSB graduate students James Liang and Zhichun Jenny Ying. Why is working from home an important area to study? 0:06 What did your study reveal about the productivity effects of working from home? 0:41 Does working from home increase productivity for all jobs? 2:15 What's your opinion about Yahoo's decision to stop allowing employees to work from home? 3:17 What's the best way to ask your boss for permission to work from home? 4:19 Why are your findings on the productivity gains of working from home significant? 5:06 Read the paper "Does Working from Home Work?": http://www.nber.org/papers/w18871 Learn more about John Roberts: http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/roberts Learn more about Nicholas Bloom's research: http://www.stanford.edu/~nbloom/index...