From the paper's abstract: "We conduct an RCT in the data entry sector in India
that exogenously allocates workers to the home or office. We find that the productivity of
workers randomly assigned to working from home is 18% lower than those in the office."
Not necessarily. Historically (though I couldn't find recent hard data in 60 seconds of searching the nets) cars have been safer [1][2], and in particular, less likely to roll over in an accident. Furthermore, when a SUV or truck collides with a car, it's more dangerous for the occupants of the car than in a car-to-car collision [3].
Amazon streaming only works when you're in your home country, no matter where your billing address is. At least for Amazon UK. When I'm in America, I have to VPN back to the UK to download content for the flight back.
Count me in the "yes" camp as well. I've been using ThinkPads off and on since before IBM sold it off, so I'm quite use to it.
It's definitely less accurate, but I can do quite a bit while only lifting one finger off the keyboard, which is a big productivity boost, and the biggest argument for having it on your computer. Especially for shorter, simpler movements.
I will always reach for another tool (generally a trackball, if I'm at my desk) if I'm trying to do something more accurate or complex.
Planet Money started off as a project for a single episode of This American Life (the "Giant Pool of Money" episode, one of the best pieces of reporting on the credit crisis, while we were still in the first part of it). They've shared content a couple of times since, so it's not surprising that it's pretty much the same material.
I have a Zune (16gb), my partner has a Zune, and there's one that's the house Zune. The house Zune was my first one, which I got for free from a guy I know from Microsoft who was given it as a reward for shipping early. The second Zune I bought because, well, I liked the Zune and wanted more storage. The 2nd gen Zune was a good, well designed MP3 player. Too bad it's not worth much for a product to just an MP3 player any more. The Zune desktop software sucks less than iTunes (which, let's face it, is a real pain in the ass), and the all-you-can eat model of the Zune marketplace is better than iTune's $0.99 or whatever it is now per song. I'm still thinking about getting the HD Zune at some point because I like having just a straight MP3 player, I'm well invested in the Zune marketplace at this point, and I am not going to buy a Windows 7 Phone any time soon (not as long as I have my iPhone...)
From the paper's abstract: "We conduct an RCT in the data entry sector in India that exogenously allocates workers to the home or office. We find that the productivity of workers randomly assigned to working from home is 18% lower than those in the office."