Data and Code for: "Working Remotely? Selection, Treatment and the Market for Remote Work"

Publicly available data and code for "Working Remotely? Selection, Treatment and the Market for Remote Work"<br>How does remote work affect productivity and how productive are workers who choose remote jobs? We decompose these effects in a Fortune 500 firm. Before Covid-19, remote workers answered 12% fewer calls per hour than on-site workers. After the offices closed, the productivity gap narrowed by 4%, and formerly on-site workers’ call quality and promotion rates also declined. Even with everyone remote, an 8% productivity gap persisted, indicating negative selection into remote jobs. A cost-benefit analysis indicates that the savings from remote work in reducing turnover and office rents could outweigh remote work's negative productivity impact but not the costs of attracting less productive workers.<br>