Research Article

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

Authors: Eline MOENS (Ghent University, Belgium) , Elsy VERHOFSTADT (Ghent University, University of Antwerp, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)) , Luc VAN OOTEGEM (International Labour Review) , Stijn BAERT (International Labour Review)

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

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

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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.

Keywords: job attractiveness, factorial survey experiment, telework

Rights: © The authors 2024 Journal compilation © International Labour Organization 2024

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