Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I’m an economist studying cities and states and their importance in the economy, focusing on their policies, finances and budgets.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. The pandemic-prompted right to remote work may be in trouble — Amazon hit headlines last month when it ...

Nick Bloom, Stanford economist and work-from-home expert, co-authored a paper on the impact of hybrid work at a large, multinational Chinese technology company, Trip.com, for six months between 2021 ...

Like any good economist, Nicholas Bloom envisions the world in charts and graphs. Asked to describe the post-pandemic future of working from home, he says it will look like a Nike swoosh: After a ...

Nicholas (Nick) Bloom is the William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University, a Senior Fellow of SIEPR, and the Co-Director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at ...