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Today you'll learn about how working from home actually makes people more productive, how a liquid can boil and freeze at the same time,

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New research suggests that working from home actually makes people more productive.

This is totally me. How about you?

Yes, absolutely.

It's nice and quiet. I've got my cat there. I work much better with a cat in my lap really.

You already missed the holidays, don't you? I do. Well, look, it costs a lot of money to rent space for an office,

especially in bigger cities like here in Chicago.

So it's not a huge surprise that some companies are just letting their employees work from home.

And not just in the US.

Take Sea Trip, for example. That's a Chinese travel agency based in Shanghai and the company was paying exorbitant rates for its office space and it only got worse as the team kept growing.

So the CEO teamed up with Stanford Economists to conduct a nine-month study on

249 call center employees.

Employees who had birthdays on even-numbered days worked from home four days a week,

and those who had birthdays on odd-numbered days worked from the office.

Management compared to the productivity of the two groups,

and of course, they expected that their employees Management compared to the productivity of the two groups,

and of course, they expected that their employees

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