TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Hansen, Stephen
AU  - Lambert, Peter John
AU  - Bloom, Nicholas
AU  - Davis, Steven J.
AU  - Sadun, Raffaella
AU  - Taska, Bledi
        TI  - Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space
        PY  - 2023/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15980
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp15980
        AB  - The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art languageprocessing framework that we fit, test, and refine using 30,000 human classifications. We achieve 99% accuracy in flagging job postings that advertise hybrid or fully remote work, greatly outperforming dictionary methods and also outperforming other machine-learning methods. From 2019 to early 2023, the share of postings that say new employees can work remotely one or more days per week rose more than three-fold in the U.S and by a factor of five or more in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K. These developments are highly non-uniform across and within cities, industries, occupations, and companies. Even when zooming in on employers in the same industry competing for talent in the same occupations, we find large differences in the share of job postings that explicitly offer remote work. 
        KW  - remote work
KW  - hybrid work
KW  - work from home
KW  - job vacancies
KW  - text classifiers
KW  - BERT
KW  - pandemic impact
KW  - labour markets
KW  - COVID-19
        ER  -