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Productivity of Working from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Overview from a Firm Survey (Japanese)

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  • MORIKAWA Masayuki

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Using data from an original firm survey, this study examines the prevalence, frequency, and productivity of working from home (WFH) practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. The results reveal that about half of the firm that responded to the survey adopted WFH practices. The mean WFH intensity, or the contribution of WFH to total labor input, was about 23% among firms that adopted WFH practices. The mean WFH productivity relative to working at the usual workplace was about 68%. However, there are large dispersions in both WFH intensity and WFH productivity. About half of the firms that adopted WFH practices plan to continue utilizing WFH practices after the end of the pandemic. Those firms are active in WFH-related investments. The results obtained from the firm survey are generally consistent with the observation from employee survey.

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  • MORIKAWA Masayuki, 2020. "Productivity of Working from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Overview from a Firm Survey (Japanese)," Discussion Papers (Japanese) 20041, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
    • Handle: RePEc:eti:rdpsjp:20041
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    1. Behrens, Kristian & Kichko, Sergei & Thisse, Jacques-Francois, 2024. "Working from home: Too much of a good thing?," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 105(C).
    2. Gilles Duranton & Jessie Handbury, 2023. "COVID and Cities, Thus Far," Economic Policy Review, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, vol. 29(2), pages 6-52, October.
    3. Kosteas, Vasilios D. & Renna, Francesco & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2022. "Covid-19 and Working from Home: toward a "new normal"?," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1013, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    4. Palacios-Lopez,Amparo & Newhouse,David Locke & Pape,Utz Johann & Khamis,Melanie & Weber,Michael & Prinz,Daniel, 2021. "The Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries : Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9510, The World Bank.
    5. Kawaguchi, Daiji & Motegi, Hiroyuki, 2021. "Who can work from home? The roles of job tasks and HRM practices," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier, vol. 62(C).
    6. Eiji Yamamura & Yoshiro Tsustsui, 2021. "School closures and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 34(4), pages 1261-1298, October.

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