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Fully remote companies also slash office costs, and cut wages bills by enabling national or global hiring.

Higher profits have led millions of firms to adopt this, generating the five-fold increase in home working many of us now enjoy.

They were rarely late to work, spent less time gossiping and chatting with colleagues, and took shorter lunch breaks and fewer sick days.

Papers by Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington and by Michael Gibbs and co-authors find large and negative impacts on productivity.

Firms that adopted home working at speed in the pandemic often lacked planning, organization and control processes.

I have spoken to many hundreds of managers and firms over the last three years and I repeatedly hear they use home working as a key part of their recruitment and retention strategy.

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