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Disentangling the attractiveness of telework to employees: A factorial survey experiment

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  • Eline MOENS
  • Elsy VERHOFSTADT
  • Luc VAN OOTEGEM
  • Stijn BAERT

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This article analyses the attractiveness of telework using a factorial survey experiment in which employees evaluate job offers with diverging characteristics, including a wide variation in the possibility to telework. This allows us to show that the relationship between the possibility to telework and job attractiveness is approximately linear: 10 percentage points (pp) more telework hours yield a rise of 2.2 pp in attractiveness and, therefore, the willingness to forego a 2.2 pp wage increase in the new job. Our experimental design also allows us to investigate the underlying mechanisms and moderators of this relationship structurally and extensively.

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  • Eline MOENS & Elsy VERHOFSTADT & Luc VAN OOTEGEM & Stijn BAERT, 2024. "Disentangling the attractiveness of telework to employees: A factorial survey experiment," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 163(2), pages 325-348, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:intlab:v:163:y:2024:i:2:p:325-348
    DOI: 10.1111/ilr.12424
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    1. Gavoille, Nicolas & Hazans, Mihails, 2022. "Personality traits, remote work and productivity," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1145, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    2. Philippe Sterkens & Stijn Baert & Eline Moens & Joey Wuyts & Eva Derous, 2024. "I won’t make the same mistake again: burnout history and job preferences," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 37(1), pages 1-21, March.
    3. Louise Devos & Kristen du Bois & Stijn Baert & Louis Lippens, 2026. "Ethnocultural identity and hiring decisions: The role of social desirability and employer bias," Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium 26/1131, Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.
    4. Masayuki Morikawa, 2024. "Productivity dynamics of work from home: Firm-level evidence from Japan," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 34(2), pages 465-487, April.

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    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J81 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Working Conditions
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being

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