From the course: Insights on Working from Home’s Largest-Ever Experiment

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Give employees flexible work options

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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