From the course: Insights on Working from Home’s Largest-Ever Experiment
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Give employees flexible work options
From the course: Insights on Working from Home’s Largest-Ever Experiment
Give employees flexible work options
- And then I should say the final finding, which again is very relevant to policy was, at the end of the nine month experiment, Ctrip was incredibly happy. So, profits went up by $2,000 per person per year. And so they were like, this is great. So they wrote it out to the whole company, but they also let everyone involved in the experiment to reoptimize. So all these people that decided to work from home or not, they'd been randomized basically a year later they said, well, look, it's worked, but you can choose. Don't change your mind every other day. But you know, you can change your mind. And it turned out around 60% of people actually changed their mind. There's a huge number of people that previously wanted to work from home. Who'd told us look, it got very lonely, it gets very isolating or that they fell victim to one of the three great enemies of working from home, which are the fridge, the bed and the television.…
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Designing the experiment1m 52s
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Remote work increased productivity and retention3m 23s
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Working from home can lead to fewer promotions1m 9s
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Give employees flexible work options2m 12s
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The four main challenges of working from home3m 23s
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The optimal work-from-home schedule3m 59s
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Invest in your workspace2m 24s
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Make time for casual conversations1m 29s
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Keep a regular schedule47s
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Don’t get rid of the office3m 10s
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