Operations Management

188 Operations Management: A Modern Approach

have longer commutes are more likely to report that they want to telework, espe-

cially if they are women and younger people. Having children, however, seems to

have no eect on the desire to telework.

In the same vein, Mannering and Mokhtarian (1995) use survey data col-

lected from employees of three government agencies in California to model the

frequency of teleworking. e results show that being a mother of small children

had a positive inuence on teleworking, as did the number of vehicles per capita

in the household.

Similarly, Wells et al. (2001) conduct surveys of employees at a public agency

and a private rm in Minnesota. ey nd that 43% of the surveyed employees

engaged in teleworking. ...