Pre and post Covid preferences for working from home

• DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2023.100679
• Publication Date: 2023-09-09T16:06:03Z
• Authors: Athena Richards; Sheila Convery; Margaret O'Mahony; Brian Caulfield
• Keywords: Pandemic

Working from home (WFH) is being seen as a potential solution to many contemporary problems congestion global warming and work-life balance. Since the 1970 s, it was assumed that when information technology had developed enough enable meaningful real-time communication between an employee in their central workplace, there would be mass uptake of WFH. However, this promise remained largely unfulfilled until COVID-19 pandemic, where WFH mandated for workers whom possible. In research, results two surveys conducted Ireland June 2019 July 2020 examining are analysed using cluster analysis multinomial logistic regression. The paper investigates factors impact desire more, how has changed 2020. doing this, pandemic associated normalisation assessed. Key variables included were identified participant's age time taken complete daily commute, with younger people those longer commutes who like work more. composition clusters roughly same surveys. These also shown attitudes samples, females, older categories public transport users greater