Modelling the Impact of Telecommuting on Future Urbanisation in the Netherlands

Muhammad, Saim; Ottens, Henk; Jong, Tom de

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9663.2008.00452.x

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“…This phenomenon is interesting as technological innovation plays a major role in it: Until about 10 years ago, many proponents of the information society claimed that the future would be rurification or dis-urbanisation [9]. The internet would imply that far more people would start teleworking, city cinemas and theatres were not needed anymore as we could watch it from movies and performances from our living room.…”

Section: Urbanisationmentioning

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Creating Circular, Efficient and Symbiotic Cities: And How Higher Education Should Contribute to Create the Solutions that are Required

Mulder

2017

World Sustainability Series

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The 'Grand Challenges' of our times, like climate change, resource depletion, global inequity, and the destruction of wildlife and biodiversity can only be addressed by innovating cities. Despite the options of tele-working, tele-trading and tele-amusing, that allow people to participate in ever more activities, wherever they are, people are resettling in cities at an unprecedented speed. The forecasted 'rurification' of society did not occur. Technological development has drained rural society from its main source of income, agriculture, as only a marginal fraction of the labour force is employed in agriculture in the rich parts of the world. Moreover, technological innovation created new jobs in the IT and service sectors in cities. Cities are potentially far more resource efficient than rural areas. In a city transport distances are shorter, infrastructures can be applied to provide for essential services in a more efficient way and symbiosis might be developed between various infrastructures. However, in practice, urban infrastructures are not more efficient than rural infrastructures. This paper explores the reasons why. It digs into the reasons why the symbiotic options that are available in cities are not (sufficiently) utilised. The main reason for this is not of an economic nature: Infrastructure organisations are run by experts who are part of a strong paradigmatic community. Dependence on other organisations is regarded as limiting the infrastructure organisation's freedom of action to achieve its own goals. Expert cultures are transferred in education, professional associations, and institutional arrangements. By 3 concrete examples of urban systems, the paper will analyse how various paradigms of experts co-evolved with evolving systems. The paper reflects on recent studies that identified professional education as the initiation into such expert paradigms. It will thereby relate lack of urban innovation to the monodisciplinary education of experts and the strong institutionalised character of expertise .

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Section: Urbanisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creating Circular, Efficient and Symbiotic Cities: And How Higher Education Should Contribute to Create the Solutions that are Required

Mulder

2017

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“…Major ndings of the reviewed studies involving those elements are also summarized. Note that the direction of causality with respect to the identi ed empirical relationships is uncertain (Moos and Skaburskis 2008;Muhammad et al 2007aMuhammad et al , 2008, and thus we refer to them as associations rather than impacts.…”

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“…e impact of the residential built en ironment on work at home adoption and equency Ettema (2010); Moos andSkaburskis (2007, 2008); Muhammad et al (2007aMuhammad et al ( , 2008Muhammad et al ( , 2007b Positive association: Inner city; suburban if the spouse is also a home worker e original database consisted of 8000 addresses but only 6746 addresses turned out to be valid. e number of responses totaled 1682, for a response rate of 24.5 percent.…”

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The impact of the residential built environment on work at home adoption frequency: An example from Northern California

Tang

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Handy

2011

JTLU

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Working at home is widely viewed as a useful travel-reduction strategy, and it is partly for that reason that considerable research related to telecommuting and home-based work has been conducted in the last two decades. is study examines the effect of residential neighborhood built environment (BE) factors on working at home. A er systematically presenting and categorizing various relevant elements of the BE and reviewing related studies, we develop a multinomial logit (MNL) model of work-at-home (WAH) frequency using data from a survey of eight neighborhoods in Northern California. Potential explanatory variables include sociodemographic traits, neighborhood preferences and perceptions, objective neighborhood characteristics, and travel attitudes and behavior. e results clearly demonstrate the contribution of built environment variables to WAH choices, in addition to previously-identi ed in uences such as sociodemographic predictors and commute time. BE factors associated with (neo)traditional neighborhoods were associated both positively and negatively with working at home.e ndings suggest that land use and transportation strategies that are desirable from some perspectives will tend to weaken the motivation to work at home, and conversely, some factors that seem to increase the motivation to work at home are widely viewed as less sustainable. Accordingly, this research points to the complexity of trying to nd the right balance among demand management strategies that sometimes act in competition rather than in synergy.

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“…Various definitions of the term "remote work" are available in the scientific literature, e.g. the assignment of jobs to employees rather than the assignment of employees to jobs (Nilles J. M., 1998), work done by using information technology (Muhammad S. et al, 2008), work performed outside the premises of employers. Some authors define remote work only as work done from home (Baruch Y., 2000; Bailey D. E.), while others have determined how long it takes to work from home to be considered remote work (Caulfield B., 2015).…”

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Economic Benefits of Remote Work from the Employer Perspective

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Leonovica²

2021

Economic Science for Rural Development

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In recent years, remote work, driven by mobile technology, the availability of the Internet and the spread of COVID-19 limiting work to be done at the workplace, has become increasingly popular. Although it is very easy nowadays to do many kinds of work remotely, many companies still do not want to introduce such practices on a permanent basis. Therefore, the research aims to examine the experience of companies in remote work to identify the economic benefits of remote work as well as develop scenarios for remote work. The research methodology is based on case study analysis, comparative analysis, economic analysis and the scenario method. The results of the research revealed that potential financial savings from applying remote work practices in companies varied, depending on the specifics of the industry and jobs, as well as the funds that the company was initially willing to invest in its employees. For companies, the largest economic savings from applying remote work practices came from maintenance of premises, as well as electricity and Internet bills, while the provision of equipment to their employees accounted for the smallest proportion of preliminary cost savings. However, the main disadvantages of remote work were the difficulty of controlling employees, communicating effectively with each other and ensuring successful teamwork. Companies could introduce part-time work practices if a large proportion of the tasks could be performed remotely, yet only the companies with a high level of automation of tasks might fully switch to remote work.

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Modelling the Impact of Telecommuting on Future Urbanisation in the Netherlands

Cited by 13 publications

References 20 publications

Creating Circular, Efficient and Symbiotic Cities: And How Higher Education Should Contribute to Create the Solutions that are Required

Creating Circular, Efficient and Symbiotic Cities: And How Higher Education Should Contribute to Create the Solutions that are Required

The impact of the residential built environment on work at home adoption frequency: An example from Northern California

Economic Benefits of Remote Work from the Employer Perspective

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