How has remote work gone during pandemic? NJ may do a study TRENTON — Nearly a year into New Jersey’s forced experiment with widespread remote work from home, the Legislature is considering a study into how it has gone. The Senate Labor Committee endorsed a bill creating an 11-member Remote Work Study Commission. It would be tasked with evaluating whether the advantages of remote work exceed its disadvantages, whether remote work has positive effects on the productivity of workers and the effect that the coronavirus 2019 pandemic has had on remote work. Michael Egenton, executive vice president of government relations for the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, welcomed the proposed study. The chamber would have a spot on the panel.