Leading researcher on remote work says it improves innovation
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Stanford University Economics Professor Nick Bloom says there is research that is misunderstood, and says data shows remote work improves performance.
As workforces continue to work remotely after the practice increased through the COVID-19 pandemic, a leading U.S. researcher says that studies on the subject have been misinterpreted, and he says data shows remote collaboration improves innovation in work teams.
Stanford University Economics Professor Nick Bloom, considered to be one of the top researchers on remote work, said at least one important paper on the topic has been "massively misunderstood," and said research shows that by 2023, working remotely was shown to significantly increase innovation.
Bloom looked at a study published in the journal Nature on the theories of innovation and examined how working a hybrid model — for example, working some days in the office and some days at home — is different from allowing employees to work fully remote.
Bloom said the study reported how "the average distance between team members' offices has increased from 62 miles to 621 miles over the last 60 years."
In the world of science, Bloom compares working remotely to the work of scientists, and how more and more of them are choosing to work in global teams. Blooms asked his followers on X to please share the study with managers and CEOs to show that working remotely improves innovation.
