Remote work, productivity and innovation | Nicholas Bloom | Innoscape Talk #6.1

The covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed our working practices. Within few years remote working has become the new normal for many people.
In the first part of our sixth Innoscape Talk, Nicholas Bloom, Professor at Stanford University, explains us how the work practices changed over the last years and we discuss how productivity and innovation activities of firms are affected by remote work. Further, we try to forecast how remote work will develop over time and what skills in the workforce will become increasingly important.
00:24 Are the terms “work from home”, “remote work”, and “teleworking” synonyms?
01:28 How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected remote work?
03:21 What is the impact of remote work on productivity?
07:07 How have remote work practices and productivity levels evolved in recent years?
10:19 Does remote work have an impact on the level of innovation within companies?
13:27 How will digitalization further transform remote work?
18:09 What skills will become more important as remote work increases?
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Interview: Christian Rutzer
Question Script: Dragan Filimonovic, Matthias Niggli, Christian Rutzer, Till Schmidlin
Production: Bald Wolf Studio
Edited: Studio Frich
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