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Walk into any boardroom in Dubai and ask for the numbers.You will get utilisation, engagement, attrition, time-to-hire, and cost per head. Ask how many of those heads are physically well enough to perform, and the room goes quiet. It is not that the answer is unknown. It is that nobody has thought to ask.

We’re launching a $5 million grant program to fund independent research into how AI impacts users’ wellbeing. The program will provide direct funding, access to our models, and technical support to grantees building open- affect those who use them. Grantees will work fully independently, and will publish their work as open-

Fully remote employees reported the highest well-being in a study of 7,704 workers at one large Southwestern U.S. health-care organization. Fortune’s Aug. 21 coverage highlighted that result while noting a crucial boundary: the researchers did not track productivity.

The debate over where employees should clock in has produced plenty of rhetoric but relatively little hard data. A new analysis published on July 29, 2026, in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Psychology offers some of the most detailed evidence yet — and the findings complicate both sides of the argument.

For years, many employers have worried that work-from-home arrangements leave employees isolated, disconnected from coworkers and more likely to leave their jobs.

1. College of Education and Human Development, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States

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