Who Can Telework? the Influence of Job Category and Individual Job Traits on Employees’ Access to Weekly Home-based Telework: a Multi-actor Perspective
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This large-scale study analyses the influence of co-ordination and trust problems on employees’ access to weekly home-based teleworking from a combined perspective of transaction-cost theory and new economic-sociology. Access is more likely when additional co-ordination and control problems are smaller. Indicators of the so-called ‘telework-risk’ are ‘time sovereignty’, ‘job autonomy’, ‘job interruptions’ and ‘output-management’, measured both at the job category and individual level. In addition, also ‘trust-enhancing’ effects of the social embeddedness of the employment relation are studied by looking into effects of ‘past and future duration’ of the current employment relation, and the ‘manager’s telework attitude’. Multi-actor data are used, collected in 2003 among 30 Dutch employer organisations, 89 job categories and 1,114 jobholders. The research shows that both co-ordination and trust problems determine who can telework. However, whereas co-ordination problems can only be viewed significant job level traits, trust problems play a role at both levels.
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