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Company Incentives and Tools for Promoting Telecommuting

Maria Börjesson

Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

The aim of this article is to identify company and employee benefits from telecommuting. Telecommuting implies that a large proportion of the company's office space is unoccupied. To use this efficiently, flexible offices could be introduced in which the employees do not have their own office but use any desk in an open office space. In addition, if telecommuting implies reductions in office space in which employees donate the use of their homes—rent free—to the employer, it is quite fair for the employer to consider returning some of that savings to the telecommuters in compensation for the use of their homes. The results indicate that employees are in fact sensitive to the monetary compensation and that company benefits could be obtained.

Key Words: telecommuting • flexible office • individual preferences • rental savings • mixed logit • work efficiencies • company benefits

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