SPOTLIGHT: Reconsidering the Return to Office, With Nicholas Bloom

After working from home gained widespread adoption out of
necessity, organizations must now optimize their remote work
strategies for the long term. Stanford Professor Nicholas
Bloom joins the Talent Angle to explain the implications of
return-to-office mandates for organizations and their
workforce. Drawing upon data on employee sentiment, workforce
productivity and organizational performance, Bloom shares how
organizations can set the right strategy for their context. He
argues that, in many cases, remote work enables enough
profitability to outweigh leaders’ concerns about productivity,
and shares how to approach collaboration in a hybrid world.


 




Nicholas Bloom is the William Eberle Professor of Economics
at Stanford University. Nick’s research focuses on working
from home, management practices and uncertainty. He
previously worked at the U.K. Treasury, McKinsey &
Company and the IFS. He has a BA from Cambridge, an MPhil
from Oxford, and a PhD from University College London. Nick
is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and
the recipient of the Guggenheim and Sloan Fellowships, the
Frisch Medal and a National Science Foundation Career Award.
He was elected to Bloomberg50 for his advice on working from
home.


 




Caroline Walsh is a vice president in Gartner’s HR
practice.Her teams help HR leaders build and execute
talent, diversity, rewards, and learning strategies and
programs. Caroline has also led Gartner research teams on
commercial banking strategy and leadership. She holds a
bachelor’s degree in East Asian studies from Columbia
University, and a master’s degree in public affairs from
Princeton University.