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Revolution in progress? The rise of remote work in the UK

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Draca, Mirko, Emma Duchini, Roland Rathelot, Arthur Turrell, and Giulia Vattuone. Revolution in Progress? The Rise of Remote Work in the UK. University of Warwick, Department of Economics, 2022.

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Authors
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Mirko Draca

University of Warwick

Emma Duchini

University of Essex

Roland Rathelot

Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (ENSAE)

Arthur Turrell

Bank of England

Giulia Vattuone

University of Warwick

Published

May 2022

Abstract

The pandemic was accompanied by a wave of adoption of remote work practices. This paper uses online job vacancy data to study how UK firms have adopted remote work. Overall, remote work increased by 300%. Our analysis finds little evidence that occupations have fundamentally changed to better accommodate remote work tasks, nor evidence of changes in the occupational composition of jobs. We find that the overall increase in remote working is driven by the increasing use of remote work at the firm level, especially among firms that were less likely to use remote work before the pandemic. This is consistent with changes in organisational practices or updated information about the viability of large-scale remote working.

BibTeX citation

@article{draca2022revolution,
      title={Revolution in progress? The rise of remote work in the UK}, 
      author={Draca, Mirko and Duchini, Emma and Rathelot, Roland and Turrell, Arthur and Vattuone, Giulia},
      journal={CAGE Working Papers},
      year={2022},
      number={616},
}