Haddad, H. , Lyons, G. and Chatterjee, K. (2009) - UWE Research ...

This is a pre-publication version of the following article:
Haddad, H., Lyons, G. and Chatterjee, K. (2009). An
examination of determinants influencing the desire for and
frequency of part-day and whole-day homeworking. Journal of
Transport Geography, 17, 124-133.
avoiding „wasted‟ time in traffic; working longer hours by working at home; and
homeworking influencing how far I live from workplace.
There is a weak negative correlation between appreciating time to oneself
travelling to/from work and desire to H work (more). Correlation between employer
support for working at home and desire to H and VST work (more) is weak and
positive. This does not imply that there is no link between employer support and
being able to work at home.
As Table 2 shows, some belief statements are highly correlated with each
other – especially the two concerning commute struggle (“I find travelling to work a
struggle” and “I find travelling home from my workplace a struggle”) and the two
concerning commute appreciation (“I appreciate the time I have to myself on my way
to work” and “I appreciate the time I have to myself on my way home from work”).
To avoid issues of multicollinearity these four variables have been reduced (by taking
the mean score) to create one variable measuring the „commute struggle‟ (Cronbach‟s
α = .87) and one measuring appreciation of the commute (Cronbach‟s α = .86).
The process of data reduction involved the removal of three belief statements.
Firstly, the statement “If I (could) work at home others in my home (would) find it
helpful to have my car on those days” had a particularly high number of missing
responses (missing n = 397) and deletion of this increased the sample size
substantially. Further, the two statements “Homeworking has/would influence(d) how
far I live from my workplace” and “Our household has a suitable room to allow me to
work at home” were removed because of concerns that (due to the phrasing used) in
relation to the dependent variables being considered (desire to VST and H work and
VST and H frequency) the statements reflect consequences rather than causal factors.
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