Remote work across jobs, companies and space

Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Stephen Hansen, Peter John Lambert, Raffaella Sadun and Bledi Taska

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Abstract: The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art language-processing framework that we fit, test, and refine using 30,000 human classifications. We achieve 99% accuracy in flagging job postings that advertise hybrid or fully remote work, greatly outperforming dictionary methods and also outperforming other machine-learning methods. From 2019 to early 2023, the share of postings that say new employees can work remotely one or more days per week rose more than three-fold in the U.S and by a factor of five or more in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K. These developments are highly non-uniform across and within cities, industries, occupations, and companies. Even when zooming in on employers in the same industry competing for talent in the same occupations, we find large differences in the share of job postings that explicitly offer remote work.

Keywords: Covid-19; hybrid working; employment; Consolidator Grant 864863; STICERD PhD research grant; e Booth School of Business (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C50 E24 M54 O33 R3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2023-07-14
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Working Paper: Remote work across jobs, companies and space (2023)
Working Paper: Remote work across jobs, companies and space (2023)
Working Paper: Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space (2023)
Working Paper: Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space (2023)
Working Paper: Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space (2023)
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