IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/iab/iabjlr/v59part.29.html

The impact of work arrangements on the choice to work from home: a discrete-continuous choice experiment

Author

Listed:
  • Jorck, Gerrit von

    (Berlin Centre for Empirical Economics, Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin))

  • Börger, Tobias

    (Berlin Centre for Empirical Economics, Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin), Berlin, Germany)

  • Ghirardello, Linda

    (HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW Berlin), Berlin, Germany)

  • Meyerhoff, Jürgen

    (Berlin Centre for Empirical Economics, Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin), Berlin, Germany)

  • Praetorius, Barbara

    (HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW Berlin), Berlin, Germany)

Abstract

"An important question regarding the future of working conditions revolves around employees’ choice of whetherto work from home or at their regular workplace. While many employees have become accustomed to working from home during the Covid19 pandemic and want to continue doing so, many employers want them to return to work on-site more intensively. In this study, we conduct a choice experiment with employees in Berlin and Brandenburg in Germany to investigate this rebalancing process. We examine how employers can influence employees ’ decision to either work from home or on-site and how the allocationof workdays between home and the regular workplace reacts to a set of work arrangements for different occupational groups. These work arrangements include flexible working hours, fixed desks, canteens, the presence of colleagues on-site, and an employer allowance for days worked from home. The results show that the most important incentive to work from home is produced by the employer allowance for working from home. The most important pull factors for working at the regular workplace are the provision of both a fixed, own desk and flexible working hours granted during days worked on-site. Overall, however, the impact of work arrangements on the choice to work from home or on-site is rather small." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)((en))

Suggested Citation

  • Jorck, Gerrit von & Börger, Tobias & Ghirardello, Linda & Meyerhoff, Jürgen & Praetorius, Barbara, 2025. "The impact of work arrangements on the choice to work from home: a discrete-continuous choice experiment," Journal for Labour Market Research, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany], vol. 59(1), pages 1-29.
    • Handle: RePEc:iab:iabjlr:v:59:p:art.29
    DOI: 10.1186/s12651-025-00419-9
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12651-025-00419-9
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1186/s12651-025-00419-9?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    JEL classification:

    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • J81 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Working Conditions

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:iab:iabjlr:v:59:p:art.29. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: IAB, Geschäftsbereich Informationsmanagement und Bibliothek (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/iabbbde.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.