Harvard Business School reports…
Harvard Business School research continues to reveal the contours of a workforce changed by COVID-19. And yet, despite the technological advancements of the past five years, a digital divide persists. …
- Many workers are lagging in digital literacy
In a study of 40 million Microsoft Windows devices across US households in more than 28,000 ZIP codes, a vast “digital divide” emerged, with people in rural areas significantly lagging behind cities in their use of computers, according to Raffaella Sadun and Shane Greenstein. - Migrant-local collaborations benefit communities
Prithwiraj Choudhury and a collaborator held a two-day entrepreneurial boot camp as a field experiment. Among the 278 participants, the researchers paired some local residents with fellow locals, then paired other locals with migrants who came from all over the United States and as far away as Africa, the Middle East, and Japan. - Many people would give up pay for remote work
Zoë Cullen and Christopher Stanton asked more than 2,000 workers if they would be willing to give up part of their salaries to keep their flexibility rather than return to the office five days a week or find a new job.