Based on survey responses from more than 1,700 managers in Germany, this study elicits employers’ perceptions of …

analyse whether managers’ beliefs about the productivity effects of WFH affect their adoption decisions. Exploiting exogenous … variation in managers’ information set, we find that managers update their beliefs about the productivity effects of WFH when … increases managers’ willingness to adopt or intensify WFH policies. Combining our main survey experiment with two follow …