New Study Uncovers the Secrets of Remote Work Productivity (Wise Decision Maker Guide 98)

Greetings Decision maker,

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses to adapt to remote work, and the results have been surprising. A new study from the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago found that remote work saved about two hours per week per worker in 2021 and 2022. Workers allocated 40 percent of time savings to work and about 11 percent to caregiving activities.

That’s over 45 minutes more work per week! No wonder extensive data shows that workers are more productive when working remotely.

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What's Up With Me

Have you tried ChatGPT or other generative AI tools yet? I’ve asked this question of many well-educated, smart professionals, and have been surprised that many of them said that they haven’t. If you’re doing any writing, editing, coding, or image creation or editing, that’s like working with a hand tied behind your back. A number of those who I speak to tell me they have some "ugh" field around using generative AI tools, feeling vaguely like it might take people’s jobs or it would make their work unoriginal or something like that. To me, that sounds like those accountants in the 1970s who said that using a calculator would make their accounting unoriginal. Generative AI is just a tool, and a very important one - you better learn to use it, so you can focus on using your own efforts where they matter most. That’s what I told one lawyer friend recently, and after he hemmed and hawed he said he’ll start to use generative AI. If you’re in his shoes, I suggest you do the same.

Here is an image I created using the Microsoft Bing Image Creator using the prompt "happy female executive working from home on a laptop."