00:00Advocates of working from home may be discouraged by a new study that gives employers a reason
00:05to bring people back into the office.
00:07The research from economists at MIT and UCLA found productivity dropped when people work
00:13from home.
00:14In fact, people who work from home were found to be 18% less productive than those working
00:19from the office.
00:21The study observed groups of data entry workers in India working from home and from the office
00:25over test periods of eight weeks.
00:27Business Insider knows that the main measure used to gauge productivity in the study was
00:32quote, net typing speed, which the report defined as the number of correct entries typed per
00:38minute.
00:39The research was published in the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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