Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/314618 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17721
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
At a time when numerous organisations are urging a return to the office while many employees prefer to continue teleworking, it is crucial to ascertain the optimal level of telework intensity. In the present study, we determine this ideal level with respect to self-rated employee attitudes, behaviour, well-being, social relations and professional growth. Drawing on a five-wave longitudinal dataset, we apply fixed effects regression analyses to investigate associations between telework intensity and various dimensions of workplace experience. We offer more robust empirical evidence for favouring hybrid work schedules over an office-only or telework-only regime owing to significant advances in causal interpretation of linear and non-linear associations compared to the majority of existing studies that examine linear associations based on cross-sectional data. Our results point toward an inverted U-shaped association between telework intensity and self-rated job satisfaction, work-life balance, relationships with colleagues and professional development, with optimal levels peaking around 50% teleworking. For task efficiency and work concentration, the association appears to be concave with a plateau, stabilising at teleworking levels above 70%. Only between telework intensity and employer connectedness do we observe a slightly negative linear association.
Subjects: 
telework intensity
workplace experience
hybrid work schedules
longitudinal
JEL: 
I31
J24
J28
J32
J81
M51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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