Will COVID-19 accelerate telecommuting? A cross-country evaluation for Israel and Czechia

Kogus, Ayelet; Foltýnová, Hana Brůhová; Gal‐Tzur, Ayelet; Shiftan, Yuval; Vejchodská, Eliška; Shiftan, Yoram

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2022.08.011

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“…In addition to the FGs, interviews by telephone were carried out (N=90). The respondents were people who had already participated in a questionnaire survey focused on activities and transport mode choice during the COVID-19 pandemic, which made it possible to connect the information with the respondents' completed questionnaires (see Kogus et al, 2022 andBrůha, 2022 for detail on the questionnaire survey). Table 4 shows the participant breakdown by main sociodemographic characteristics.…”

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“…Data from Czechia indicate that an increase in teleworking and online shopping and a simultaneous decrease in physical travel to work and for shopping occurred and can also be expected after the pandemic (Brůhová Foltýnová & Brůha, 2022). Kogus et al (2022) estimate a reduction of about 8.7% in the number of commuting trips in the post-pandemic era. The highest increase is anticipated for hybrid telecommuting (a combination of working from home and in a workplace); working from home for more than 20 hours weekly is expected to increase only by 4 p.p.…”

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“…The highest increase is anticipated for hybrid telecommuting (a combination of working from home and in a workplace); working from home for more than 20 hours weekly is expected to increase only by 4 p.p. in the Czech Republic (Kogus et al, 2022).…”

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Development of public transport perception by its users during the pandemic: qualitative study from Czechia

Vávřová¹,

Jordová²,

Vácha³

et al. 2023

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Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the transport sector has faced new challenges connected with decreasing use of public transport and passengers' concerns about possible contagion. Using focus groups and data collection by telephone interviews during the different phases of the pandemic, we investigated passengers' current concerns connected with public transport and what measures would help alleviate their fear of using it again.Our findings show that the pandemic has amplified passengers' sensitivity to phenomena they perceived negatively already before the pandemic, such as overcrowded vehicles, odours, or inadequate cleaning of vehicles. An appeal to people's own responsibility, appropriate communication by key institutions, increasing sanitation standards and promotion of contactless services are crucial for a safe travel feeling during and after the pandemic. The technological solutions, such as cashless payments, real-timeinformation for adequate guidance of users, more sophisticated ventilation systems etc. gained even more significance during the COVID-19 pandemic.In spite of various measures taken in the PT system, users reduced their PT trips substantially. The fear of COVID-19 contagion has been one of the reasons, although the fear of PT use has not been greater than the fear of contagion in other situations, such as shopping. One of the reasons for passengers´ decline was also the PT service reduction in frequency or number of connections. On the other hand, PT operators have been exposed to an enormous pressure to ensure sanitary requirements and had to overcome economic shortages due to a decreased demand and increased costs, so they had to find a viable balance between a necessary supply and safe operation during the COVID-19 waves.The study brings an overview of measures and changes in PT demand and gives a complex view on the development of attitudes and experience with PT use in the Czech Republic during the different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results bring recommendations to PT providers, transport authorities and other institutions dealing with mobility and public health. Implementation of such measures can minimize the risk of contagion by COVID-19 or other respiratory infections and will help further development of public transport as a sustainable transport mode in the post-pandemic era.

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“…From the Czech perspective, researchers were interested in the benefits and barriers of WFH during the COVID-19 pandemic (Kucera et al, 2021), commuting behavior of employees beyond the pandemic (Kogus et al, 2022), or the employee attitudes to WFH (Beno et al, 2023). Namely, Sladka and Kreidl (2022) examined the effect of WFH on work-family conflicts by analyzing data from the Czech Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) Covid Pilot Study carried out from December 2020 to February 2021 and covering over 1,300 respondents.…”

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Working from home during and beyond the coronavirus pandemic: Employee reflections from the Czech Republic

Šafránková,

Šikýř

2024

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Research background: Working from home (WFH) has become the norm for many people around the world due to the coronavirus pandemic. It has accelerated the implementation of WFH and has raised questions about its further use. Purpose of the article: The article analyzes the experience of employees in the Czech Republic with WFH during the coronavirus pandemic to identify perceived benefits, difficulties, skills, and conditions related to WFH, assess the employee desire to work from home depending on their industry, age, and gender, and propose actions for further use of WFH beyond the coronavirus pandemic. The statistical verification of the dependence of the desire of employees to work from home beyond the coronavirus pandemic on their industry, age, and gender is integral to the analysis. Methods: The analysis is founded on data from the authors' online questionnaire survey conducted from December 2021 to September 2022. Responses from 480 employees who experienced WFH during the coronavirus pandemic in the Czech Republic are analyzed. Statistical non-parametric methods for the analysis of nominal data are used to verify defined hypotheses. Findings & value added: A research gap concerning the further use of WFH in the Czech Republic and elsewhere by considering the employee experience is met. The findings have revealed the desire of more than half of surveyed employees to continue working from home part-time to achieve reasonable work-personal-family well-being. The desire turned out to be dependent on the employees' industry. Within further use, WFH should be taken as a specific work pattern for suitable professions and individuals with adequate organizational and technical support. Three matters concerning performance agreement, work environment, and self-management are proposed to enhance work-personal-family well-being and thus job satisfaction and productivity of homeworkers. The findings and proposals can help any theorist and practitioner interested in WFH.

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Investigating commuters' working from home attitudes and its explanatory factors after the lifting of COVID-19 prevention and control policies

Zhao,

Yang,

Wang

2024

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Will COVID-19 accelerate telecommuting? A cross-country evaluation for Israel and Czechia

Cited by 11 publications

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Development of public transport perception by its users during the pandemic: qualitative study from Czechia

Development of public transport perception by its users during the pandemic: qualitative study from Czechia

Working from home during and beyond the coronavirus pandemic: Employee reflections from the Czech Republic

Investigating commuters' working from home attitudes and its explanatory factors after the lifting of COVID-19 prevention and control policies

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