Not incentivized yet efficient: working from home in the public sector

Alessandra Fenizia and Tom Kirchmaier ()

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Abstract: This paper studies whether working from home (WFH) affects workers' performance in public sector jobs. Studying public sector initiatives allows us to establish baseline estimates on the impact of WFH net of incentives. Exploiting novel administrative data and plausibly exogenous variation in work location, we find that WFH increases productivity by 12%. These productivity gains are primarily driven by reduced distractions. They are not explained by differences in quality, shift length, or task allocation. The productivity gains more than double when tasks are assigned by the supervisor.

Keywords: working from home; productivity; public sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 J45 L23 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2024-09-25
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