Are Those Who Bring Work Home Really Working Longer Hours? Implications for BLS Productivity Measures

Eldridge, Lucy P.; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff

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“…Recent estimates suggest that 31 percent of employers allow at least some employees to regularly work part of the workweek from home (Bond, et al 2005). In the 2004 American Time Use Study, approximately 13 percent of employees reported actually working from home or away from their primary worksite at least some of the time (Eldridge and Pabilonia 2007). …”

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Telecommuting and Earnings Trajectories Among American Women and Men 1989–2008

2016

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While flexibility in the location of work hours has shown positive organizational effects on productivity and retention, less is known about the earnings effects of telecommuting. We analyze weekly hours spent working from home using the 1989–2008 panels of the National Longitudinal Study of Youth. We describe the demographic and occupational characteristics of the employees engaged in telecommuting, then track their earnings growth with fixed-effects models, focusing on gender and parental status. Results show substantial variation in the earnings effects of telecommuting based on the point in the hours distribution worked from home. Working from home rather than the office produces equal earnings growth in the first 40 hours worked, but “taking work home” or overtime telecommuting yields significantly smaller increases than overtime worked on-site. Yet most observed telecommuting occurs precisely during this low-yield overtime portion of the hours distribution. Few gender or parental status differences emerged in these processes. These trends reflect potentially widespread negative consequences of the growing capacity of workers to perform their work from any location. Rather than enhancing true flexibility in when and where employees work, the capacity to work from home mostly extends the work day and encroaches into what was formerly home and family time.

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Telecommuting and Earnings Trajectories Among American Women and Men 1989–2008

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“…We define a parent as working in a time slot if he/she worked at least 60 minutes in a workplace during the interval. Because work done at home may be combined with childcare, we did not 23 include that in our definition (Eldridge and Pabilonia 2010). Given that there is only one diary day per individual, we cannot assess whether work in these intervals is typical (i.e., working in a job with non-standard hours) or is an anomaly (i.e., having to work overtime).…”

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What Effects Do Macroeconomic Conditions Have on Families’ Time Together?

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Pabilonia

2012

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“…(2001) use survey data to show that flexible working times actually increase the total hours employees are willing to work. Working at home has even been identified as being “on constant call,” and Eldridge and Pabilonia (2007) present evidence that workers able to work at home actually work longer hours than otherwise similar workers who work exclusively in a workplace 5 . Moreover, as the authors show, they are more willing to cover for other workers if they can do so from home.…”

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Estimating the Use of Agency Workers: Can Family-Friendly Practices Reduce Their Use?

Heywood

Siebert

Wei³

2011

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society

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This paper uses establishment data to estimate the determinants of using agency workers. It contends that there is a class of family‐friendly practices including workplace nurseries, flexitime, home working, and job sharing that promote the norm of the “ideal worker” who concentrates on work. Because such practices increase the ability of employers to direct worker effort, they will be associated with a lower use of agency workers. Our findings confirm this hypothesis. The implication is that any growth in family‐friendly practices may work against the ongoing expansion in agency jobs.

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Are Those Who Bring Work Home Really Working Longer Hours? Implications for BLS Productivity Measures

Cited by 22 publications

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Telecommuting and Earnings Trajectories Among American Women and Men 1989–2008

Telecommuting and Earnings Trajectories Among American Women and Men 1989–2008

What Effects Do Macroeconomic Conditions Have on Families’ Time Together?

Estimating the Use of Agency Workers: Can Family-Friendly Practices Reduce Their Use?

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