Working from Home: A potential measure for mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic
Staying in one’s job but performing work remotely is an excellent strategy for mitigating job losses and allowing for the continuation of many of our economies’ functions, but also for keeping the population safe.
The objective of this brief is to estimate the potential share of workers across the different regions of the world who could perform their activities from home, if needed, as well as discuss some of the policy issues associated with working from home.
