2024 Remote Work Conference

12:15 - 12:45 pm     Arrival and Lunch

1:00 - 2:30 pm            Employee Experience

• Shift to Remote Work, Performance, and Learning
  Cem Ozguzel, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis 

• Workplace Hostility
  Manuela Collis, Clémentine Van Effenterre

• Can setting team “collaboration norms” improve the employee experience of hybrid workers? Results from a pre-registered study
  Ashley Whillans, Morgan Krannitz, Marissa Bialek, Aiwa Shirako, Jennie Huang, Anuradha Anantharaman 

2:30 - 3:00 pm            Break

3:00 - 4:00 pm     Return to Office

• Determinatns and Consequences of Return to Office Policies
  Sean Flynn, Andra Ghent, Vasudha Nair 

• Return to Office Mandates
  Mark Ma, Yuye Ding

4:00 - 4:15 pm            Break

3:15 - 5:45 pm     Brief & Brilliant

• Work from Home, Business Dynamism, and the Macroeconomy
  Chenchuan Shi, Petr Sedlacek

• Here to work: A Qualitative Exploration of in-person work in an era of hybrid work(ing)
  Devin Kilpatrick 

• The Global Market for Remote White-Collar Jobs
  Jingyi Cui, Samuel Solomon

• Return to Office and the Tenure Distribution
  David Van Dijcke, Florian Gunsilius, Austin Wright

• Can Remote Work Attenuate Child Penalties?
  Pablo Zarate, Maria Oaquim

• Empty Offices and Urban Transitions: The Impact of Working from Home on Commercial Real Estate
  Simon Krause
  
  

5:45 - 7:45 pm     Conference Drinks and Dinner at SEIPER – Invitation only

8:00 - 8:30 am             Breakfast

8:30 - 10:00 am          Demographic Impacts

• Bringing Work Home: Flexible Arrangements as Gateway Jobs for Women in West Bengal
  Lisa Ho, Suhani Jalota, Anahita Karandikar

• Does the Ability to Work Remotely Alter Labor Force Attachment? An Analysis of Labor Market Flows Across Prime-Age Individuals
  Maria Tito

• Work from home and the employment of individuals with a disability
  Gordon Dahl, Nicholas Bloom, Dan-Olof Rooth

10:00 - 10:30 am       Break

10:30 - 12:00 pm       Living and Commuting

• The New Geography of Remote Workers and Firms: Evidence from France
  Filippo Boeri, Davide Rigo

• Working from Home Increases Work-Home Distances
  Sena Coskun, Wolfgang Dauth, Hermann Gartner, Michael Stops, Enzo Weber

• Americans Now Live Farther from Their Employers
  Mert Akan, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Tom Bowen, Shelby Buckman, Steven Davis, Luke Pardue

12:00 - 1:00 pm          Lunch

1:00 - 2:30 pm            Amenities

• Wage Differentials and the Price of Workplace Flexibility
  Linh Tô, Marshall Drake, Neil Thakral 

• Workplace Amenities and The Cost to Firms in the United States
  David Powell, Jeffrey B. Wenger

• Job Amenity Shocks and Labor Reallocation
  Lukas Friedrich Mann, Sadhika Bagga, Aysegül  Sahin, Giovanni L. Violante

2:30 - 3:00 pm            Break

3:00 - 4:30 pm            Firms & Management

• Work From Home, Productivity and Firm Dynamics
  Huiyu Li, Julien Sauvagnat, Tom Schmitz

• Do Startups Benefit from Remote Work?
  Arpit Gupta, Abhinav Gupta, Elena Simintzi

• Work-From-Home and Commercial Real Estate: Effects on Bank Balance Sheets, Credit Availability, and the Real Economy
  Erica Moszkowski, Elliot Anenberg, You Suk Kim

4:30 - 5:00 pm Walk to Main Quad and Conference Photo

5:00 - 7:30 pm Conference Drinks and Dinner at Hoover – Invitation Only

8:00 - 8:30 am            Breakfast

8:30 - 10:00 am         Housing & Geography

• Winners and Losers from the Work-from-Home Technology Boon
  Andra Ghent, Morris A. Davis

• The Spatial and Distributive Implications of Working-from-Home: A General Equilibrium Model
  Morgane Richard

• Work from Home and Interstate Migration
  Adam Blandin, Alexander Bick, Karel Mertens, Hannah Rubinton

10:00 - 10:30 am        Break

10:30 - 12:00 am        Executives

• Remotely Productive: The Efficacy of Remote Work for Executives
  Denis Sosyura, Ran Duchin

• Management and Remote Work
  Megha Patnaik, Andrea Lamorgese, Andrea Linarello, Fabiano Schivardi

• The CEO Bot: Generative AI and CEO Communication at an All-Remote Firm
  Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Xi Kang, Bart S. Vanneste

12:00 pm                   Lunch

Link to Conference Recordings

Funding from Smith Richardson Foundation and Templeton World Charity Foundation