One of the study's authors told Insider those who prefer WFH are also the "most distracted" at home.
It found that randomly selected data-entry workers in Chennai, India were 18% less-productive working from home than from the office.
It found that those who prefer to work from home are — at baseline — actually 12% faster and more accurate in their work.
Those who prefer to work from the office — even if they're initially slower or less-accurate — are just 13% less-productive when working from home.
Atkin suggests that hybrid work arrangements could be an answer, even though they weren't explored in this particular study.
Persons:
Maskot, they're, David Atkin, Atkin
Organizations:
Service, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, WFH
Locations:
Wall, Silicon, Chennai, India