Remote Work - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jun 2021
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Why Some Employees Would Rather Quit Than Give Up Remote Work

29 Jan 2021
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Half of New Orleans City Hall employees to work remote in move to Municipal Auditorium

05 Aug 2020
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Remote work really does mean longer days -- and more meetings

20 Feb 2023
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Nearly 30 Percent of Work Remains Remote as Workers Dig In

08 Oct 2021
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Harvard’s Tsedal Neeley: Remote Work Is Not Going to Go Away

28 May 2020
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Remote Work Has Its Perks, Until You Want a Promotion

January 2021 (Revised March 2022)
Teaching Note

Ureed.com: The Marketplace for Language

By: Ashley V. Whillans

This case explores the growth of Ureed, an online marketplace for translation services that is powered by a workforce consisting of remote freelancers who are based in the United Arab Emirates. Nour Al Hassan, the founder and CEO faced the challenge of how best to... View Details

Keywords: Language Translation; Freelancers; Remote Work; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Management; Motivation and Incentives; Job Design and Levels

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26 Oct 2020
Blog Post

12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

headquartered in Boulder, CO. Not only did I get to work with an incredible team, the remote experience allowed me to get a virtual tour of one of the CEO’s hangars in Montana, something that would have been... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

24 Feb 2025
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What We Learned in Three Charts: Digital Divide and Remote Work

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Dynamic Silos: Increased Modularity and Decreased Stability in Intra-organizational Communication Networks During the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Tiona Zuzul, Emily Cox Pahnke, Jonathan Larson, Christopher White, Patrick Bourke, Nicholas Caurvina, Neha Parikh Shah, Fereshteh Amini, Youngser Park, Joshua Vogelstein, Jeffrey Weston and Carey E. Priebe

Workplace communications around the world were drastically altered by COVID-19, related work-from-home orders, and the rise of remote work. To understand these shifts, we analyzed aggregated, anonymized metadata from over 360 billion emails within 4,361 organizations... View Details

Keywords: Remote Work; COVID-19; Communication Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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May 5, 2020
Article

Why the Crisis Is Putting Companies at Risk of Losing Female Talent

By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

There has been a massive shift in how work gets done inside many companies and the global pivot to working remotely will likely change how many think about face time and rigid work schedules. Might these changes benefit women? The authors argue that will depend on how... View Details

Keywords: Coronavirus Pandemic; Remote Work; Flexible Work Arrangements; Health Pandemics; Employees; Working Conditions; Gender

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February 2020
Case

Collage.com: Scaling a Distributed Organization (Abridged)

By: Christopher Stanton, Shikhar Ghosh, William R. Kerr, Sarah Gulick and James Palano

Keywords: Remote Work

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6 Oct 2021
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How to Transition In and Out of Work

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz

How to keep home and work separate while working remotely. Some remote employees miss their commute, with several even creating a fake commute to turn off work at the end of a long workday. Expert Jon Jachimowicz explains how to maximize the positive lifestyle benefits... View Details

Keywords: Work From Home (WFH); Positivity; Lifestyle; Passion; Work-Life Balance

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