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‘Fertility president’ Trump has demanded a baby boom, and Stanford researchers have a solution: Let more people work from home

“It seems like just such an obvious thing to do,” remote work expert Nick Bloom said. “As an economist, I don’t think I’ve ever seen the more obvious win, win, win policy.”

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Bosses are fed up with remote work for 4 main reasons. Some of them are undeniable

The data showing that remote workers spend fewer hours working, less productively, is really starting to add up.

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The return to office wars are far from over: Half of workers say they’d job hunt or quit to avoid 5 days a week

CEOs issuing RTO mandates risk a talent drain

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More CEOs are enjoying the remote-work life—but employees resent it

Remote CEOs are seen as enjoying their lives “at the expense of the employees,” one expert said.

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Almost half of U.S. Dell employees would rather work from home than get promoted

The remote-work rebellion continues at Dell after the tech giant implemented a strict return-to-office mandate earlier this year.

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Major study from Stanford workplace guru reveals that hybrid work has no negative impact on getting promoted

Nick Bloom's co-authored study found that hybrid working reduced attrition, had no impact on productivity or performance and generated 'millions of dollars in savings' for the business.

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Hybrid working makes employees happier, healthier and more productive, study shows

Three-quarters said going back to working five days a week in an office would damage their wellbeing

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Welcome to the era of 'normalization': Why Wall Street is convinced consumers will get comfortable with some economic pains in 2024

Taking a look across the outlooks for next year, there's one word that stands out from Wall Street. "Normal."

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Prominent work-from-home CEO has just acknowledged a significant flaw in the remote office model

“We are more productive and we are less creative,” Ellevest's CEO outlined her company's remote work trade-off.

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Even the U.S. president’s return-to-office push is being ignored by workers: ‘They aren’t coming back’

“The president himself is telling federal employees to get back in the office, and they aren’t coming back,” a lawmaker complained this week.

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Remote work expert: In-person work rates will remain 'flat as a pancake' until 2026, when WFH will dominate

Two years from now, we’ll see a “Nike swoosh” in rates of working from home.

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Return-to-office mandates go over better with Gen Zers and boomers than with millennials. Here’s why

The generational divides on remote work sees millennials often at odds with both younger and older coworkers.

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Merit-based flexibility could be the future of work as return-to-office mandates fail to prop up productivity

In this framework, employees are empowered to earn their autonomy, creating a direct correlation between their output and their work flexibility.

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Return-to-office mandates will just keep getting harsher as bosses stick to 'management by walking around'

This doom loop could have been avoided if managers knew how to manage hybrid and remote workers well.

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Mike Bloomberg might actually have a point with his claim that remote workers are all playing golf

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Thanks to A.I., workers are struggling with "FOBO"—fear of being obsolete

The fear of artificial intelligence taking their job is unfounded—for most workers.

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CEOs are gambling that pandemics are over with their remote work policies

Labor Day marks a mass (order to) return to the office. But what about Bill Gates' prediction that another pandemic is just around the corner?

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The A.I. revolution could spell doom for remote workers, says WFH guru Nick Bloom: ‘If I were fully remote, you could replicate me with A.I.’

Fully remote, low-level jobs are at “real risk” of being replaced within five years, the Stanford economist said.

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Smucker’s return-to-office plan is a full embrace of remote work—with a big catch

Core weeks instead of core days is the key to Smucker’s new policy. Even if that means flying from California to Ohio.

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Hybrid workers are relaxing more during the week, but paying for it on the weekend

Ten percent of hybrid workers aren’t working on a given weekday, WFH Research finds. And 56% of them are working any given Saturday.

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The old office is going extinct. Here’s what the new normal of work looks like

Full-time in-office work is going the way of the dinosaurs. Now the choice is between hybrid and fully remote work, the survivors in the new world of work.

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The workplace has finally reached a new normal, says the guru of remote work

“It feels like the [score of the] last three years has been, work from home—three; return to office—zero,” Nick Bloom said. “This is not a match that RTO is winning.”

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‘Never again’: is Britain finally ready to return to the office?

With even the big internet firms warning staff they need to show up more often, is working from home over? Or have the attitudes and expectations of employees changed for ever?

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A real estate billionaire said Fridays are ‘dead forever’ for offices, and remote work guru Nick Bloom says he’s right—it’s part of a new 3-part week

“Friday is increasingly winning out in the WFH stakes,” the WFH Research cofounder tells Fortune.

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Tuesday tee times? How the pandemic changed when we play

Of golf’s many storied traditions, this one has long held true: Weekdays were a time of rest, recovery and senior discounts, the sole province of retirees whose biggest concern is a chip that stops far short of the hole.

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