#118 The Post-COVID Ecomony - Nick Bloom

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This episode's guest is Nick Bloom, a fellow Brit and professor in economics at Stanford. He's been an avid researcher in remote working since 2014.  Pre-COVID likely only 8% of employees worked from home. Nick expects this to be 40% in the aftermath of the pandemic, an extraordinary transformation of economic life. In this episode, we talk: - What Nick learned studying working from home at 'China's Expedia' Ctrip - The optimum set-up for home working - The shape and drivers of inequality in today's society - How lockdowns may be driving inequality - The future for capitalism Enjoy! To your humanity, Richard Links: Nick's research