Telecommuting research may explain employee choices.

Publication: Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report

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COPYRIGHT 1995 Gil Gordon Associates

Employers planning to implement telecommuting often ask, "who pays for the equipment, the phone line installation, the monthly phone charges, and other expenses?" While it had been fairly common - especially in the private sector - for employers to pay most, if not all these costs, today's tight budgets are causing employers to rethink that strategy. Some recent academic research may shed some light on the pros and cons of asking employees to pick up some of these costs.

The research was presented at a January 26 session of the recent Transportation Research Board meeting in Washington, DC. It was presented by Dr. Hani Mahmassani of the University of Texas at Austin; he co-authored a paper with Jin-Ru Yen, his Ph.D. student. The paper is entitled "Telecommuting Adoption: Conceptual Framework and Model Estimation," and it reports on part...

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