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].
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."