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  • 2022
  • Article

How Does Working from Home during COVID-19 Affect What Managers Do? Evidence from Time-Use Studies

By: Thomaz Teodorovicz, Raffaella Sadun, Andrew L. Kun and Orit Shaer
We assess how the sudden and widespread shift to working from home during the pandemic impacted how managers allocate time throughout their working day. We analyze the results from an online time-use survey with data on 1,192 knowledge workers (out of which 973 are... View Details
Keywords: Time-use; Working-from-home; COVID; Managers; Knowledge Workers; Health Pandemics; Time Management
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Multitasking While Driving: A Time Use Study of Commuting Knowledge Workers to Assess Current and Future Uses

By: Thomaz Teodorovicz, Andrew L. Kun, Raffaella Sadun and Orit Shaer
Commuting has enormous impact on individuals, families, organizations, and society. Advances in vehicle automation may help workers employ the time spent commuting in productive work-tasks or wellbeing activities. To achieve this goal, however, we need to develop a... View Details
Keywords: In-vehicle User Interfaces; Time-use Study; Automated Vehicles; Knowledge Workers; Commuting
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    Overview

    Prof. Whillans is interested in understanding the associations between time, money, and happiness, broadly construed. For example, in one set of projects, Prof. Whillans studies how differences in time-use (e.g., chore and childcare burdens) and the willingness to... View Details

    • 12 Feb 2013
    • News

    What Happens When You Have Fewer Managers

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    Time Use and Happiness of Millionaires: Evidence from the Netherlands

    By: Paul Smeets, A.V. Whillans, Rene Bekkers and Michael I. Norton
    How do the very wealthy spend their time, and how does time use relate to well-being? In two studies in the Netherlands, the affluent (N=863, N=690) and the general population (N=1232, N=306) spent time in surprisingly similar ways, such as by spending the same amount... View Details
    Keywords: Time And Wellbeing; Millionaires; Social Class; Wealth; Happiness; Demographics; Netherlands
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    • 31 Mar 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    What Do CEOs Do?

    Keywords: by Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat & Raffaella Sadun
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    By: Ashley V. Whillans
    Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details
    • 29 Nov 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

    likely to spend extra time on a project with team members than those not eligible for extra rewards. Willing to give up happiness to spend time with colleagues. The research team also studied US Census time-use survey data between 2010... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
    • 14 Jul 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving

    how automated cars might be designed to minimize major accidents. For their time-use study, the researchers conducted online interviews with about 400 knowledge workers, who make up a large percentage of commuters on today’s roadways and... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
    • 27 Jan 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

    researchers collected time-use information through daily phone calls with each CEO's personal assistant (PA) or with the CEO himself (99 percent of the sample consisted of male CEOs). On the first day of the week, a researcher would call... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 02 Jan 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Most Popular Articles of 2011

    CEOs' personal assistants to track their bosses' activities with time-use diaries. Research was conducted by Raffaella Sadun of Harvard Business School, Luigi Guiso of the European University Institute, and Oriana Bandiera and Andrea Prat... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 21 Feb 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 21

    to reduce the time spent with insiders and to focus on bilateral and unplanned activities. These results suggest that time-use information is helpful in interpreting how span of control determines management style. Download the paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne