Working from Home During a Pandemic - A Discrete Choice Experiment in Poland

Working from Home Around the World

“…3 Relative to these studies, we contribute by documenting the pervasiveness of heterogeneity in WFH preferences around the world and by showing that the structure of preferences exhibits common features across countries, including stronger desires 2 See, for example, Adams-Prassl et al (2020), Barrero et al (2020b), Bartik et al (2020), Bick et al (2022), Brynjolfsson et al (2020), Eurofound (2020) and Ker et al (2021). 3 See, for example, Bloom et al (2015), Mas and Pallais (2017), Wiswall andZafar (2020), He et al (2021), Barrero et al (2021c), and Lewandowski et al (2022).…”

Adopting telework: The causal impact of working from home on subjective well‐being

“…A quarter of employees who currently WFH one or more days per week say they would quit their job, or seek one that allows WFH, if their employers required a complete return to work on site. In the same vein, Lewandowski et al (2022) estimated Polish workers' willingness to pay for working from home using a discrete choice experiment during Covid, and found that, on average, workers would sacrifice 5.1% of their earnings for the option to WFH, especially for 2-3 days a week (7.3%) rather than 5 days a week (2.8%).…”

“…However, provided that these are time-invariant personality traits, these problems can be surmounted by using longitudinal panel data, such as the UKHLS, that allow controlling for individual fixed effects. Other criticisms have pointed to the difficulties of using a subjective discrete scale (Bond & Lang, 2019), but in practice these measures have proven their consistency and their predictive power, and are now considered as mainstream tools (Barrington-Leigh, 2022;Frey & Stutzer, 2002;Kahneman & Krueger, 2006;Layard, 2011).…”

“…In the same vein, Lewandowski et al. (2022) estimated Polish workers' willingness to pay for working from home using a discrete choice experiment during Covid, and found that, on average, workers would sacrifice 5.1% of their earnings for the option to WFH, especially for 2–3 days a week (7.3%) rather than 5 days a week (2.8%).…”

How Much Do Workers Actually Value Working from Home?

“…Datta (2019) followed their approach in the UK and found similar results. During the pandemic, Lewandowski et al (2022) used a stated-choice experiment in Poland to estimate the willingness-to-pay for WFH. After the pandemic, Aksoy et al (2022) use surveys to inform on workers' valuation of WFH around the world.…”