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Are remote work options the new standard? Evidence from vacancy postings during the COVID-19 crisis()
This study examines how the COVID-19 crisis has changed the willingness of employers to offer teleworking options. We analyze job descriptions from vacancy postings on the largest Austrian job board to classify whether employers offer the option to telework to new hires. Our results show that the cr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9093064/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35578707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102179 |
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description | This study examines how the COVID-19 crisis has changed the willingness of employers to offer teleworking options. We analyze job descriptions from vacancy postings on the largest Austrian job board to classify whether employers offer the option to telework to new hires. Our results show that the crisis has substantially increased the scope for remote work. About one year after the onset of the crisis, employers were 2–3 times as likely to explicitly offer such an option relative to levels before the pandemic. This effect is particularly strong for jobs that require at least a degree from a higher secondary school. Accounting for changes in vacancies by occupations and firms, we find that the impact is neither driven by an increase in the demand for teleworkable occupations nor by an increase in vacancies at teleworking-friendly firms. Although many social distancing restrictions were relaxed again during the summer of 2020, the effect persists throughout the first year of the crisis, suggesting that the pandemic may have long-lasting effects on remote working arrangements. To test the robustness of our results, we merge two external occupation-level teleworking measures to our sample. Both measures are highly correlated with our measure and yield comparable estimates for the impact of the pandemic on vacancies for teleworkable occupations. |
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spelling | pubmed-90930642022-05-12 Are remote work options the new standard? Evidence from vacancy postings during the COVID-19 crisis() Bamieh, Omar Ziegler, Lennart Labour Econ Article This study examines how the COVID-19 crisis has changed the willingness of employers to offer teleworking options. We analyze job descriptions from vacancy postings on the largest Austrian job board to classify whether employers offer the option to telework to new hires. Our results show that the crisis has substantially increased the scope for remote work. About one year after the onset of the crisis, employers were 2–3 times as likely to explicitly offer such an option relative to levels before the pandemic. This effect is particularly strong for jobs that require at least a degree from a higher secondary school. Accounting for changes in vacancies by occupations and firms, we find that the impact is neither driven by an increase in the demand for teleworkable occupations nor by an increase in vacancies at teleworking-friendly firms. Although many social distancing restrictions were relaxed again during the summer of 2020, the effect persists throughout the first year of the crisis, suggesting that the pandemic may have long-lasting effects on remote working arrangements. To test the robustness of our results, we merge two external occupation-level teleworking measures to our sample. Both measures are highly correlated with our measure and yield comparable estimates for the impact of the pandemic on vacancies for teleworkable occupations. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022-06 2022-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9093064/ /pubmed/35578707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102179 Text en © 2022 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Bamieh, Omar Ziegler, Lennart Are remote work options the new standard? Evidence from vacancy postings during the COVID-19 crisis() |
title | Are remote work options the new standard? Evidence from vacancy postings during the COVID-19 crisis() |
title_full | Are remote work options the new standard? Evidence from vacancy postings during the COVID-19 crisis() |
title_fullStr | Are remote work options the new standard? Evidence from vacancy postings during the COVID-19 crisis() |
title_full_unstemmed | Are remote work options the new standard? Evidence from vacancy postings during the COVID-19 crisis() |
title_short | Are remote work options the new standard? Evidence from vacancy postings during the COVID-19 crisis() |
title_sort | are remote work options the new standard? evidence from vacancy postings during the covid-19 crisis() |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9093064/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35578707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102179 |
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