When You Start to Miss Tony from Accounting

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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If you're one of the 40 percent of Americans now working from home, you might be reveling in your daily commute to the dining room table. Or you might be saying, "Get me out of here." Economist Nicholas Bloom joins us from his spare bedroom to ponder whether working from home is actually working.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.
0:04.7	Like millions of people around the world, Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom has been working
0:09.7	from home since March.
0:12.1	Instead of a university classroom, he now uses a spare bedroom.
0:16.2	And sometimes, one of his four kids pops in while he does meetings over Zoom.
0:22.2	He'll never forget this one time back in May.
0:24.8	He was on a very important call with some business executives trying to help them with the research
0:29.6	project.
0:31.0	About 20 minutes into the call, this happened.
0:39.1	It was two of my kids starting their daily practice on the bagpokes.
0:46.0	I was thinking, oh no, no, now is not the time.
0:50.8	I had to like say quickly to have an immediate, I'm sorry, there's something going on in the
0:54.9	background, mute myself and like run into the toilet.
1:06.8	The soundproofing is just dreadful.
1:09.1	The toilet's about the only sound bunkered room, so I'm sure I'll be back in there again
1:13.3	taking calls.
1:15.3	Probably many calls, because Nick is an expert on the economic, cultural and social implications
1:22.8	of working from home.
1:24.7	And now, in an almost surreal twist, he's living his research day in and day out.
1:33.3	Just like the rest of us.
1:35.3	So is working from home, working?
1:38.4	So many people said, you know, we thought we'd be great at this, we thought we could
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