2022 Remote Work Conference

12:15 - 12:45 pm     Lunch and Arrival

12:45 - 1:00 pm     Introduction: Work from Home Media
Mert Akan and Nicholas Bloom  

1:00 - 2:30 pm            How Much and Where Is Remote Work Happening?

• How Many Americans Work Remotely?  •  Slides
  Erik Brynjolfsson, John Horton, Christos A. Makridis, Alex Mas, Adam Ozimek, Daniel Rock, and Hong-Yi TuYe 

•  Working from Home Around the World  •  Slides
  Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Mathias Dolls, and Pablo Zarate

• Remote Work across Jobs, Companies and Countries  •  Slides
  Peter Lambert, Stephen Hansen, Nick Bloom, Steve Davis, Raffaella Sadun, Beldi Taska

2:30 - 3:00 pm            Break

3:00 - 4:30 pm     Spacial Implications of Remote Work I

• The Effect of Working from Home on the Agglomeration Economies of Cities: Evidence from Advertised Wages  •  Slides
  Sitian Liu and Yichen Su

• The Impact of Remote Work on Local Employment, Business Relocation, and Local Home Costs  •  Slides
  Michael Dalton, Matthew Dey, and Mark Loewenstein 

• Housing Demand and Remote Work  •  Slides
  John Mondragon and Johannes Wieland 

4:30 pm           Drinks and Dinner at Landau Front Lawn

8:30 - 9:00 am             Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30 am          How Remote Work Impacts Knowledge Work

• Disrupting Science    •   Slides
  Carl Benedikt Frey and Giorgio Presidente 

• The Power of Proximity: Office Interactions Affect Online Feedback, Especially for Women and Young Workers   •  Slides
  Natalia Emanuel, Emma Harrington, and Amanda Pallais 

• Measuring the Impact of Remote Work Across the United States   •  Slides

Alan Kwan  and Ben Matthies

10:30 - 11:00 am       Break

11:00 - 12:00 pm       Hybrid Work

• Is Hybrid Work the Best of Both Worlds? Evidence from a Field Experiment   •  Slides
  Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Christos A. Makridis, and Kyle Schirmann

• How Hybrid Working From Home Works Out   •  Slides
  Ruobing Han, Nick Bloom, and James Liang

12:00 - 1:00 pm          Lunch

1:00 - 2:30 pm            The Impact on Workers

• Who is Doing the Chores and Childcare in Dual-earner Couples during the COVID-19 Era of Working from Home?   •  Slides
  Victoria Vernon and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia 

• Speak Up or Stay Silent: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Remote Work on Worker Voice   •  Slides
  Aruna Ranganathan and Aayan Das 

• Mismatch in Preferences for working from home - evidence from discrete choice experiments   •  Slides
  Piotr Lewandowski, Katarzyna Lipowska, and Mateusz Smoter

2:30 - 3:00 pm            Break

3:00 - 4:30 pm            Selection & Treatment Effects

• “Working” Remotely? Selection, Treatment, and The Market for Remote Work   •  Slides
  Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington 

• Worker Sorting, Work Discipline and Development   •  Slides
  David Atkin, Antoinette Schoar, and Sumit Shinde 

• Dynamic Effects of COVID-19 on Remote Work: Evidence from Panel Data    •  Slides
  Erik Brynjolfsson, John Horton, Christos A. Makridis, Alex Mas, Adam Ozimek, Daniel Rock, and Hong-Yi TuYe 

4:30 pm             Walk to Nick's House for Drinks and Dinner

8:00 - 8:30 am            Breakfast

8:30 - 10:00 am         Spacial Implications of Remote Work II

• Spatial Implications of Telecommuting   •  Slides
  Matthew J. Delventhal and Andrii Parkhomenko 

• The International Price of Remote Work   •  Slides
  Agostina Brinatti, Alberto Cavallo, Javier Cravino, and Andres Drenik 

• Work From Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse   •  Slides
  Arpit Gupta, Vrinda Mittal, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh 

10:00 - 10:30 am        Break

10:30 - 11:30 am        Impact of Distance

• From in-person to online: the new shape of the VC industry   •  Slides
  Liudmila Alekseeva, Silvia Dalla Fontana, Caroline Genc, and Hedieh Rashidi Ranjbar

• Virtual Water Coolers: A Field Experiment on the Role of Virtual Interactions on Organizational Newcomer Performance   •  Slides
  Prithwiraj Choudhury, Jacqueline Lane, and Iavor Bojinov 

11:30 am                   Box Lunch

Link to Conference Recordings

Funding from Smith Richardson Foundation and Templeton World Charity Foundation