Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272497 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15870
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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 is 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.
Subjects: 
work from home
commute times
allocation of time savings
COVID-19
JEL: 
work
from
home
commute
times
allocation
of
time
savings
COVID
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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