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Title: Work from Home After the COVID-19 Outbreak

Author(s): Alexander Bick, Adam Blandin and Karel Mertens

Publication Date: July 2020

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Programme Area(s): Monetary Economics and Fluctuations

Abstract: Based on rich novel survey data, we document that 35.2 percent of the US workforce worked entirely from home in May 2020, up from 8.2 percent in February. Highly educated, high-income and white workers were more likely to shift to working from home and maintain employment following the pandemic. Individuals working from home daily before the pandemic lost employment at similar rates as daily commuters. This suggests that, apart from the potential for home-based work, demand conditions also mattered for job losses. We find that 71.7 percent of workers that could work from home effectively did so in May.

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Bick, A, Blandin, A and Mertens, K. 2020. 'Work from Home After the COVID-19 Outbreak'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=15000