Is It Time to Let Employees Work from Anywhere?
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Harvard Business Review
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Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Barbara Z. Larson, Cirrus Foroughi
In a working paper currently under review, we studied the effects of a work-from-anywhere program initiated in 2012 among patent examiners at the U.S. Patent & Trade Office (USPTO). We analyzed productivity data for patent examiners (highly educated and specialized professionals) who switched from work-from-home work conditions to the WFA program.
Our results indicate that examiners’ work output increased by 4.4% after transition to WFA, with no significant increase in rework (re-writing of patent decisions upon appeal from inventors).
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