Remote work may increase birth rates

Looking for a way to boost fertility rates, which are sagging across most of the globe? Let people work from home. Remote work has led to a 5% increase in fertility in the U.S. and Northern Europe, estimates Nicholas Bloom, a professor of economics at Stanford University and expert on remote work. The correlation is strongest among women 30 and older who have college degrees and already have one kid. One reason is because working from home makes childcare more feasible, Bloom told Fast...