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时文阅读I远程办公实验 受新冠肺炎疫情影响，全球许多企业都推出了远程办公的临时方案，远程办公一时受到广泛 地关注。斯坦福大学教授尼古拉斯?布鲁姆与携程网合作开展了一次关于远程办公的实验, 探索远程办公对员工工作效率的影响。 阅读短文并回答问题 Amid the COVID-19 （新型冠状病毒）crisis, working from home has become ordinary for many people. For some, working from home is distracting and exhausting. But one pioneering study found that working from home increased output by 13%. Nicholas Bloom, a professor at Stanford University in California,began the experiment when James Liang, one of the founders of T Group - the largest online travel agency in China - met Bloom in Stanford and mentioned to him how expensive Shanghai housing was, how the costs of maintaining company headquarters there were huge and that he was thinking of letting his staff work from home. This idea made Bloom interested. Bloom started to test Liangs thought. First, 1000 employees who volunteered for the study were divided into two teams, separated by birthdates. Those born on even days got to work from home four out of five weekdays for the next nine months. Those born on odd days stayed in the office all week long. Then the two teams were tracked. It was easy to do, as these workers had repetitive, straightforward tasks that could easily be quantified （量化）,and their productivity could easily be measured 一 making bookings in the system or making phone calls, for example. Nine months passed; Bloom and Liang discovered workers were 13% more productive at home. Blooms data suggests the staff could become much more productive while working from home long term - but its not so straightforward. In the experiment, there were warnings as to who could take part in the first place. Participants had to meet three requirements: have no kids, have a room that wasnt their bedroom and have quality Internet on equipment the firm installed for them at home. So theres no guarantee that, say, parents working from home or those without access to fast Internet would see those productivity increases. Lynda Grattan, a professor at London Business Sch