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A randomized control trial published in the leading academic journal Nature finds two days of working from home improved job satisfaction and reduced turnover when compared to those working in offices five days a week.A new study in the academic journal Nature used a randomized control trial to look at the impact of hybrid work schedules on turnover, job satisfaction and performance.
That randomized control trial method—a real-life experiment on two employee groups randomly split by nothing other than birthdate—allowed the researchers to conclude it was the hybrid work schedule that caused the improvements in retention and job satisfaction, Bloom says, rather than simply being coincidental to other factors that could explain the changes. “That's why this thing got published in,” he says. “In many studies you don’t . ...
The study did not look specifically at full-time remote workers, or arrangements where employees have complete choice over where they work, which remains a priority for many workers. That debate is likely to continue, even while the current study offers evidence to support the value of hybrid arrangements at least compared to working five days a week at the office.
The newer study looked at workers in fields like marketing, software engineering, finance and accounting, helping to address concerns that past studies on lower-paid employees doing repetitive tasks with more objective measurements may not be generalizable to the workforce at large. “These are creatives, they’re in graduate or professional jobs, and they’re innovating, creating, training,” Bloom says of participants in the current study.
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