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Jobs with WFH options have better stock returns, new study reveals


Share prices have become the latest metric to measure the performance of flexible workplaces compared to their peers with strict RTO policies.

Using FlexJobs’s “100 Best Companies for Remote Working Jobs” lists released between February 2014 and January 2020, Lattanzio measured both short- and long-term share price effects. The study claims to be the first documentation of a company’s reliance on flexible work being associated with long-term stock returns, taking into account outside risk factors like industry shocks. With a new wave of research able to measure quantitatively the positive financial outcomes associated with flexible work, Ma believes CEOs may loosen their grip on strict back-to-office edicts.

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