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Fortune
Jane Thier

Remote work is more popular in English-speaking countries. Experts can’t figure out why

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If you had to guess which countries have the highest rate of remote work, what would your assumption be? If you’re not sure, that’s okay—even the experts are scratching their heads.

Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University economist and cofounder of WFH Research—the preeminent group that’s been tracking remote work attitudes and statistics across dozens of countries—is the authority on the matter, but even he doesn’t know. He guessed that countries with the highest density of knowledge workers—often high earners and remote-capable—would have the highest share of remote work. 

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