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https://doi.org/10.3141/1552-22

http://scholar.google.com...kiva&publication_year=1996

A comprehensive model of the telecommuting adoption process, incorporating employer and employee perspectives, is developed. A probabilistic modeling approach is taken. The employer decision to offer a telecommuting program is modeled as a function of motivation and constraints and of the perceived impacts of telecommuting on the organization's productivity and costs. The employee decision to adopt telecommuting is modeled as a function of motivations and constraints as well as of the impact of the program on lifestyle quality, work-related costs, and income. The results indicate that telecommuting has a significant potential to increase productivity and improve lifestyle quality, if the right program is designed for the right employee. The potential of telecommuting to reduce organization and employee work-related costs is perceived to be limited. An overall negative perception about the potential impact on productivity and lifestyle quality of telework center-based telecommuting programs is identified, pointing to a need for further research to assess the market for telework centers.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1552, Transportation Planning and Land Use at State, Regional, and Local Levels.

English

p. 161-170

1996

Transportation Research Record

0309059224

Figures (1) ; References (17) ; Tables (7)

Costs; Decision making; Employees; Employers; Income; Life styles; Market research; Probability; Productivity; Quality of life; Research; Telecommuting

Probabilistic models; Telework

Data and Information Technology; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Research; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

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