Friday, November 3
8:15 am
Continental Breakfast
8:45 am
Introductions and Welcome
8:49 am
Response to explosive growth of WFH in research papers and govt statistics
8:50 am

WFH to the Center of Labor Market Analysis (slides)

Qingnan Xie, Harvard University
9:10 am

BLS Measurement of Telework During and Shortly After the Pandemic -- An On-the-Ground Perspective of How it Happened

Anne Polivka, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Emy Sok, Bureau of Labor Statistics
9:30 am
Discussants (8-10 each) and comments (10):
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER (Xie)
Erica L. Groshen, Cornell University (Polivka, et al)
9:49 am
WFH shocks to Labor Market: US, Sweden, China
10:00 am

Working-From-Home to the Rescue? WFH in the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession and Recovery

Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University and NBER
Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER
Michael J. Handel, Northeastern University
Gabriel D. Lewis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
10:20 am

Work from Home, Eat near Home? The Reshaping Geography of Local Service Firms (slides)

Adam Gill, Uppsala University
Lena E. Hensvik, Uppsala University
Oskar Nordström Skans, Uppsala University
10:40 am

WFH in the Pandemic and Its Aftermath: Renmin Employer-employee Survey and Case studies

Wei Huang, Renmin University
Qingnan Xie, Harvard University
11:00 am
Discussant and comments
Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University and NBER (Freeman et al)
Michael J. Handel, Northeastern University (Gill et al)
Shule Yu, Fudan University (Huang et al)
12:00 pm
Lunch, Longfellow Room A
Workers Supply and Firm Demand
1:00 pm

From Crisis to Norm: How Remote Work Patterns and Employee Engagement Have Transformed Across Occupations and Industries

Christos Makridis, Stanford University
Jason Schloetzer, Georgetown University
1:20 pm

Remote Work and Team Productivity

E. Glen Dutcher, Ohio University
Krista Saral, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
1:40 pm
Discussant and comments
Marit Rehavi, University of British Columbia (Makridis et al)
Prithwiraj Choudhury, Harvard University (Dutcher et al)
2:10 pm
Break
2:29 pm
Establishment and Firm Evidence
2:30 pm

Effect of Employee Ownership on Work-From-Home and Employment Response to Covid-19 Shock (slides)

Huanan Xu, Indiana University South Bend
Douglas L. Kruse, Rutgers University and NBER
Joseph R. Blasi, Rutgers University
Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University and NBER
2:50 pm

Job Posting for Working from Home (slides)

Jörn Boehnke, University of California, Davis
3:10 pm

Measuring the Impact of Remote [Knowledge] Work Using Big Data

Alan P. Kwan, Hong Kong University
Ben Matthies, University of Notre Dame
Alexander Yuskavage, Department of the Treasury
3:30 pm
Discussants and comments
Sari Pekkala Kerr, Wellesley College (Xu)
Eliza Forsythe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Boehnke)
Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Boston University (Kwon et al)
4:20 pm
Adjourn
6:30 pm
Dinner
Saturday, November 4
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
Technology, Health and Telemedicine
9:00 am

Working from Home: Working By Self vs With AI Assistant (slides)

Aleksandra Przegalinska, Kozminski University
9:20 am

Preferences for Remote Work and Workplace Health Precautions: Results from Two Survey Experiments

Gabriel D. Lewis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
9:40 am

Characterizing the Travel Nurse Market During Covid-19: A Tale of Two Markets for Interchangeable Labor

Robert Longyear, Wanderly
10:00 am
Discussants and comments
Jörn Boehnke, University of California, Davis (Przegalinska)
Krista Saral, University of North Carolina, Charlotte (Lewis)
Arindrajit Dube, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER (Longyear)
11:00 am
WFH and Remote Work in Telemedicine Panel
Susan Landis, Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP), Executive Director
Christopher Nielsen. National Nurses United, Education Director
Ty Rorick, Duke Clinical Clinical Research institute, Head of Research Operations
12:30 pm
Lunch and Adjourn