Younger Firms and CEOs Allow More Work from Home

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Katelyn Cranney, Steven Davis, Mathias Dolls (), Pablo Zarate and E. Philip Davis

No 12439, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We establish three facts about work from home (WFH) in the United States. First, employees WFH more often at younger firms – almost twice as often at firms founded after 2015 than at firms founded before 1990. Second, employees working under younger CEOs have higher levels of WFH. The average WFH rate is 1.4 days per week when the CEO is under 30, compared to 1.1 days when the CEO is 60 or older. Third, the self-employed WFH more than twice as often as wage-and-salary employees. These facts highlight the importance of organizational and managerial attributes for the prevalence of WFH.

Keywords: remote work; working arrangements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 J53 J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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