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The Great Remote-Work Experiment

2024/6/4
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Natalia Emanuel
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Jerusalem Demsas：远程办公虽然方便，但也存在一些严重的缺点，例如错过工作中的社交互动和学习机会，以及如何公平地做出远程办公与否的决定等问题。 Natalia Emanuel：远程办公对不同人群的影响各异，其影响因素包括工作类型、职业阶段、性别等。研究表明，远程办公对软件工程师的生产力影响复杂，短期内可能降低生产力，但长期来看可能提高生产力，尤其对资深工程师而言。此外，团队中即使只有一人远程办公，也会对团队整体产生显著负面影响。女性工程师在远程办公前获得的代码反馈比男性工程师多，这并非源于性别歧视，而是因为她们更倾向于在面对面交流时提出问题。然而，提供这些反馈的资深女性工程师却为此付出了生产力降低的代价。

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The episode introduces the debate around remote work, questioning its benefits and drawbacks, and sets the stage for discussing its economic implications with a labor economist.

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Four years after the Great Remote-Work Experiment began, the public debate has boiled down to: Bosses hate it and workers love it. But is that all there is to it? Who *really *benefits from remote work—and who doesn’t? And why is it that women with more job experience suffer the most?

Host Jerusalem Demsas talks to Natalia Emanuel), a labor economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who co-authored a paper) looking at the effects of remote work. Do people understand the tradeoffs they’re making when they choose to work from home? What’s the impact on the team if even one person is remote? And does remote work benefit older workers at the expense of younger ones?

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