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Desire to work from home: Results of an Irish study
Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences, Sociology. Trinity Centre for Transport Research, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2366-7740
Trinity Centre for Transport Research, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; National Transport Authority, Dublin, Ireland.
National Transport Authority, Dublin, Ireland.
Trinity Centre for Transport Research, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
2022 (English)In: Journal of Transport Geography, ISSN 0966-6923, E-ISSN 1873-1236, Vol. 104, article id 103416Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Large levels of working from home (WfH) were induced by social distancing and viral control measures undertaken to mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic. Representing an unpredicted change in the way large amounts of people undertake their day to day work, it is expected that the legacy of this event, in terms of significant alterations to work and commuting patterns will have wide-ranging and long-lasting results. However, how persistent the current trends will be, remains an open question. Therefore, there is a need for a well-represented study of employees' preferences for the post-pandemic future and focus on white-collar workers and their well-established attitudes considering their flexibility in terms of workplace arrangements. This paper presents the results of a survey undertaken in Ireland in the summer of 2021 gauging the desire of office workers to WfH, the format that most appeals to them, the consideration of home relocation based on the ability to WfH, and the factors that may explain such preferences. Results indicate high levels of desire to WfH, either full time or partially, with increased desire to WfH positively correlated to pre-pandemic commute length, and to a perceived increase in work productivity and quality of non-work life as a result of time spent WfH. Additionally, a number of workers state that they may consider home relocation based upon the ability to WfH. These results should be interpreted as the desire to WfH or total addressable market that exists, rather than the likely levels of WfH that will be observed post-Covid.

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Elsevier, 2022. Vol. 104, article id 103416
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Covid-19, Working from home, Teleworking, Residential relocation, Ordered logit model
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Sociology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-49798DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2022.103416ISI: 000911713100001PubMedID: 35992220Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85135930733OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-49798DiVA, id: diva2:1692450
Available from: 2022-09-02 Created: 2022-09-02 Last updated: 2024-06-26Bibliographically approved

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