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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

586: Insights on Working from Home’s Largest-Ever Experiment with Nicholas Bloom

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom shares insights from the largest study on working from home to show how to adjust to the new world of work. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) Four key findings from the largest study on working from home 

2) What the ideal work from home week looks like 

3) Why this isn’t the end of the office 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep586 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT NICHOLAS — 

Nicholas (Nick) Bloom is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and a Co-Director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on management practices and uncertainty. He previously worked at the UK Treasury and McKinsey & Company. His work has been covered in a range of media including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Economist and Financial Times

On the personal side he is English living with his Scottish Wife and American kids - a multi-lingual English household on Stanford campus. 

• Nicholas’ TEDx Talk: Go Ahead, Tell Your Boss You Are Working From Home | Nicholas Bloom | TEDxStanford 

• Nicholas’ study: “Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment,” with James Liang, John Roberts, and Zhichun Jenny Ying 

• Nicholas’ academic profile: Nicholas Bloom 


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:19.0

Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 586 with Nicholas Bloom.

0:25.0

Nick is talking about some insights from his largest ever experiment on working from home

0:32.0

and some of those implications for us now and there's a whole lot

0:35.8

of working from home going on. So you'll learn one four key findings from the largest

0:39.5

study in working from home. Two what the ideal work from home week looks like,

0:44.0

and three, why this isn't the end of the office.

0:47.0

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to as we've referenced,

0:51.0

drop on by awesome at your job.

0:52.0

Com slash F five eight six. as we've referenced, drop on by awesome at your job. com slash ep 586, and you can enjoy those resources right there.

0:58.8

And while you're at awesome at your job.com,

1:00.4

you might check out the gold nugget email list,

1:02.0

which gives summary insights from

1:03.8

Nick and all the guests who've gone before him in a quick email. You can read in

1:07.0

under three minutes and access to the vault of all of those summary insights from

1:11.5

every guest ever. So that's pretty cool. That's called the Gold Nuggets.

1:14.4

Now here is Nick's story. Nick Bloom is a professor of economics at Stanford University and

1:19.8

a co-director of the Productivity Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at the National Bureau of Economic

1:25.2

Research.

1:26.2

His research focuses on management practices and uncertainty.

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