Remote Work Didn’t Just Change Where We Work — It Raised the Bar for Who Gets Hired

New research from Northeastern’s Zhenyu Liao, published in Administrative Science Quarterly, offers a striking counterpoint to the “flip-flops and Zoom” narrative of remote work. Analyzing more than 50 million European job postings from 2018 to 2021, Liao and colleagues found that remote positions consistently demanded roughly 25% more skills, along with higher experience and education … Continue reading Remote Work Didn’t Just Change Where We Work — It Raised the Bar for Who Gets Hired