Home-based workers: Worker and work characteristics

Masuo, Diane; Walker, Rosemary; Furry, Marilyn M.

doi:10.1007/bf01020450

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“…The top five generators of home-based employment are construction (NAICS 23), healthcare and social assistance (62), professional, scientific, and technical services (54), retail trade (44–45), and real estate rental and leasing (53). This finding is also consistent with Masuo et al. (1992) who reported that contrary to the notion of an increase in home-based work by white-collar workers, in fact home-based workers were likely to be in sales, marketing, contracting, and transportation activities.…”

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“…Ellen and Hempstead (2002)’s telecommuting analysis shows a disproportionate representation of management, professional services, and sales, while Moos and Skaburskis (2007) show that the top four occupations for telecommuting include business services and finance, insurance, and real estate (FIRE), but the categories of “other services” and “health and social services” round out the top four. An older study by Masuo et al. (1992) on home-based work finds it to be more prevalent in sales, marketing, contracting, and transportation activities than other white-collar work.…”

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Mapping the landscape of urban work: Home-based businesses and the built environment

Kane

Clark

2018

Environ Plan A

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Home-based businesses represent a large and growing portion of the economy, though little is known beyond limited surveys. This paper describes a novel method of identifying businesses located within residences using parcel-level land use data across 15 counties in California and analyzes their evolution from 1997 to 2014, focusing on their distribution across neighborhoods. Home-based business represented nearly one in six businesses in 2014, and employment in home-based businesses outpaced overall employment growth 37 to 24% from 1997 to 2014. While home-based businesses are associated with both middle-income and wealthy neighborhoods, only in southern California were they associated with growing shares of single-family housing, low population density, and homeownership rates. While prior research emphasizes the importance of technologically and knowledge-intensive services across a variety of home working arrangements, this study reveals that the industrial composition of home-based businesses is roughly equally comprised of knowledge-intensive services and basic economic activity.

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Mapping the landscape of urban work: Home-based businesses and the built environment

Kane

Clark

2018

Environ Plan A

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“…The two groups may also have different types of work and family circumstances. A series of studies in the United States found employees had different occupations (Masuo, Walker, & Furry, 1992), made more contribution to family income, had one rather than two jobs (Loker & Scannell, 1992), had family present more often (Rowe & Bentley, 1992), and experienced less variation in work flow (Heck, Saltford, Rowe, & Owen, 1992). It is therefore preferable to study employees separately.…”

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The home as a workplace: Work–family interaction and psychological well-being in telework.

Standen

Daniels

Lamond³

1999

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

152

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Home-based telework is a growing phenomenon with great potential to affect employees' psychological well-being. Although prior studies show both positive and negative effects on work-family interaction, conclusions are limited by the way telework, well-being, and work-family interaction have been modeled. The authors present a conceptual framework that describes telework as a multidimensional phenomenon and separates the effects of the home environment from those of distance from the organization. Propositions concerning work-family interaction are developed from P. Warr's (1987) model of the environmental antecedents of well-being, prior telework studies, and the work-family literature. Spillover between work and nonwork domains of well-being is discussed, and suggestions for future research on this complex issue are presented.

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“…Office-based service work that does not involve a physical manufacturing process and occupations that rely heavily on telecommunication and computer-based interactions become most suitable for moving away from central cities (Gaspar and Glaeser, 1998). An older study by Masuo et al (1992) on home-based work found it more prevalent in sales, marketing, contracting and transportation activities than other white-collar work.…”

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Does work from home reshape the urban rental structure? Early evidence from a rental gradient analysis in Auckland

Yiu

Cheung²,

Wong³

2023

IJHMA

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Purpose This study aims to identify the pandemic’s impact on house rents by applying a rental gradient analysis to compare the pre-and post-COVID-19 periods in Auckland. The micro-level household census data from the Integrated Data Infrastructure of Statistics New Zealand is also applied to scrutinise this WFH trend as a robustness check. Design/methodology/approach Since the outbreak of COVID-19, work-from-home (WFH) and e-commerce have become much more common in many cities. Many news reports have contended that households are leaving city centres and moving into bigger and better houses in the suburbs or rural areas. This emerging trend has been redefining the traditional theory of residential location choices. Proximity to central business district (CBD) is no longer the most critical consideration in choosing one’s residence. WFH and e-commerce flatten the traditional bid rent curve from the city centre. Findings The authors examined micro-level housing rental listings in 242 suburbs of the Auckland Region from January 2013 to December 2021 (108 months) and found that the hedonic price gradient models suggest that there has been a trend of rental gradient flattening and that its extent was almost doubled in 2021. Rents are also found to be increasing more in lower-density suburbs. Research limitations/implications The results imply that the pandemic has accelerated the trend of WFH and e-commerce. The authors further discuss whether the trend will be a transient phenomenon or a long-term shift. Practical implications Suppose an organisation is concerned about productivity and performance issues due to a companywide ability to WFH. In that case, some standard key performance indicators for management and employees could be implemented. Forward-thinking cities need to focus on attracting skilful workers by making WFH a possible solution, not by insisting on the primacy of antiquated nine-to-five office cultures. Social implications WFH has traditionally encountered resistance, but more and more companies are adopting WFH policies in this post-COVID era. The early rental gradient and the micro-level household data analysis all confirm that the WFH trend is emerging and will likely be a long-term shift. Instead of resisting the change, organisations should improve their remote work policies and capabilities for this WFH trend. Originality/value So far, empirical studies of post-COVID urban restructuring have been limited. This study aims to empirically test such an urban metamorphosis by identifying the spatial and temporal impacts of COVID on house rental gradients in the Auckland Region, New Zealand. The authors apply rental gradient analysis to test this urban restructuring hypothesis because the method considers the spatial-temporal differences, i.e. a difference-in-differences between pre-and post-pandemic period against the distance measured from the city centre. The method can control for the spatial difference and the endogeneity involved.

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Home-based workers: Worker and work characteristics

Cited by 15 publications

References 5 publications

Mapping the landscape of urban work: Home-based businesses and the built environment

Mapping the landscape of urban work: Home-based businesses and the built environment

The home as a workplace: Work–family interaction and psychological well-being in telework.

Does work from home reshape the urban rental structure? Early evidence from a rental gradient analysis in Auckland

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