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Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century? – The Conversation AU
A conservative estimate of the productivity gains form working from home suggests they’re bigger than all of the reforms of the 1990s combined.
One of the most striking responses to the COVID-19 pandemic has been the sudden, shift of around half the workforce to working at home.
In many cases, this was combined with an equally sudden shift to home schooling.
Contrary to what might have been expected, working from home was one part of the pandemic response that went remarkably smoothly. Most kinds of office work continued almost as if nothing had changed.
Discussion of the crisis has mostly worked on the assumption that a return to …
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