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Why do People (not) Want to Work from Home? An Individual-focused Literature Review on Telework

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One challenge of telework before the Covid-19 pandemic, but even during it, is that even if organizations offer telework programs employees are not willing to work from home. Instead, they prefer to stay in the office. We conducted a literature review of 32 studies focusing on telework adoption to propose the employee telework adoption model, informing research and practice about telework and its successful implementation. Guided by the theory of planned behavior we identified six behavioral beliefs fostering telework adoption and five behavioral beliefs hindering telework adoption. Moreover, we reveal one normative and three control beliefs that foster or hinder it. This belief set constitues the employee telework adoption model, which is further discussed in terms of its implications for research and its guidance for future research endoveaurs.

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In this video we explain the results of our paper and why do people (not) want to work from home. We identify factors that foster or inhibit employees telework adoption.

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