S8E36 - Davis: Will working from home stick?
Published: July 16, 2025
Duration: 19:10
Recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025.
Go back six or seven years and working from home was an exception. Bosses discouraged it, contracts didn’t mention it, and we didn’t have the technology to do it.
Covid changed all that. But since then, how have work patterns changed? Should we believe the press reports that we’re all being summoned back to the office, or is remote work now part of our lives – and what does that mean for employers and employees?
Steve Davis of the Hoover Institution and SIEPR has been measuring...
Go back six or seven years and working from home was an exception. Bosses discouraged it, contracts didn’t mention it, and we didn’t have the technology to do it.
Covid changed all that. But since then, how have work patterns changed? Should we believe the press reports that we’re all being summoned back to the office, or is remote work now part of our lives – and what does that mean for employers and employees?
Steve Davis of the Hoover Institution and SIEPR has been measuring...