Is teleworking good or bad for productivity?
If, since 2020, investigations have multiplied on the subject, a study carried out in China, before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, makes reference in the matter.
Carried out in 2014 in a call center of a Chinese travel agency with employees volunteering to work from home, it shows that productivity gains have reached up to 22%.
Another experiment, conducted in Japan in March 2020, in an economic research institute, indicates that the productivity of employees, forced to work overnight at home due to the pandemic, would then have fallen by 40%.
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These two examples underline that, in order to fully appreciate the effects of teleworking on productivity, it is necessary to distinguish whether it is carried out under normal structural conditions or in exceptional circumstances.
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