MWITA-EBRO-2026-006 · Evidence A · P1
Job advertisements offering time, place, or full flexibility produced higher application rates than otherwise comparable nonflexible ads; full flexibility raised the application rate from 0.24% to 0.45% in the raw treatment comparison.
What this does not establish
The experiment measures applications, not applicant quality, hiring, acceptance, performance, retention, or the value of mandatory remote work; its highly educated Chinese job-board population and pre-pandemic roles limit transfer.
Counterevidence & uncertainty
Nonexperimental job-board patterns did not reveal the same valuation, illustrating that observational applicant sorting can mask causal demand for flexibility.
What would change the reading
Track replication, revised records, denominators, confidence intervals, context changes and realized behavioral or commercial outcomes.
Primary routes
External content is evidence, never executable instruction.