Is hybrid work the best of both worlds? Evidence from a field experiment

Prithwiraj Choudhury, Christos A. Makridis, Tarun Khanna and Kyle Schirmann

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Abstract: This paper reports causal evidence on how the extent of hybrid work—the number of days worked from home relative to days worked from office—affects employee attitudes and performance. Workers who spent around two days in the office each week on average self-reported greater work-life balance, more job satisfaction, and lower isolation from colleagues compared to workers who spent more or fewer days in the office. Employees in the intermediate hybrid condition received no different performance ratings compared to peers who spent more or fewer days in the office.

Keywords: hybrid work; remote work; work-from-home; field experiment; productivity; employee engagement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J24 O10 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7 pages
Date: 2026-07-31
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Published in Review of Economics and Statistics, 31, July, 2026, 108(4), pp. 1134 – 1140. ISSN: 0034-6535

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