Time Savings When Working from Home
AEA Papers and Proceedings
vol. 113,
May 2023
(pp. 597-603)
Abstract
We quantify the commute time savings associated with work from home, drawing on data for 27 countries. The average daily time savings when working from home are 72 minutes in our sample. We estimate that work from home saved about two hours per week per worker in 2021 and 2022, and that it will save about one hour per week per worker after the pandemic ends. Workers allocate 40 percent of their time savings to their jobs and about 11 percent to caregiving activities. People living with children allocate more of their time savings to caregiving.Citation
Aksoy, Cevat Giray, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Mathias Dolls, and Pablo Zarate. 2023. "Time Savings When Working from Home." AEA Papers and Proceedings, 113: 597-603. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20231013Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- I12 Health Behavior
- I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- M54 Personnel Economics: Labor Management