RT Journal Article
T1 Who is teleworking and where from? Exploring the main determinants of telework in Europe
A1 López Igual, Purificación
A1 Rodríguez-Modroño, Paula
K1 Telework
K1 ICT-based mobile work
K1 Workplace
K1 Home-based work
K1 Flexible work
K1 Work-life balance
K1 Digitalization
AB Telework and ICT-based mobile work (TICTM) arrangements have emerged in response to technological changes driven by digitalisation, increasing flexibility within the labour market, and globalisation. As telework becomes more widespread, these flexible models of work are rapidly expanding to new categories of employees, changing the factors traditionally found to be important for telework eligibility. The aim of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of new profiles of teleworkers, examining main factors that increase or decrease the likelihood of di erent TICTM arrangements. We apply multinomial logistic regression models to a sample of more than 20,000 workers from the 6th European Working Conditions Survey. Our findings confirm the heterogeneity in the profiles of teleworkers, particularly distinguishing by TICTM arrangement. Occasional teleworkers are usually male managers or professionals, but a relevant percentage of highly mobile teleworkers are technicians and associate professionals, while clerical support workers amount to a large group of home-based teleworkers. The majority of occasional and highly mobile teleworkers are still men, but this can no longer be said of home-based teleworkers. The correlations between telework and permanent contracts, full-time jobs, and living in urban areas are weak, showing that TICTM is spreading into more precarious, temporary, and lower-paid jobs, especially among home-based teleworkers and highly mobile teleworkers. Keywords: telework; ICT-based mobile work; workplace; home-based
PB MDPI
YR 2020
FD 2020-10-23
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22729
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22729
LA en
NO López-Igual, P., & Rodríguez-Modroño, P. (2020). Who is Teleworking and Where from? Exploring the Main Determinants of Telework in Europe. Sustainability, 12(21), 8797. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218797
NO El estudio se enmarca dentro del Proyecto Nacional de I+D+i “El futuro del trabajo desde una óptica de género: las mujeres en la 4ª Revolución Industrial”, PID2019-105835RB-I00 (2020-23), financiado por el Programa Estatal de I+D+i orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, y del proyecto “Conciliación en la era del trabajo digital”, PRY074/19 (2020-22), financiado por la Fundación Centro de Estudios Andaluces.
NO Departameto de Economía, Métodos Cuantitativos e Hostoria Económica
DS RIO
RD May 9, 2026