Remote work has expanded dramatically since 2020, upending longstanding travel patterns and behavior. More fundamentally, the flexibility for remote workers to choose when and where to work has created much stronger connections between travel behavior and organizational behavior. This paper uses a large and comprehensive monthly longitudinal survey over nearly three years to identify new trends in work location choice, mode choice and departure time of remote workers. The travel behavior of remote workers is found to be highly associated with employer characteristics, task characteristics, employer remote work policies, coordination between colleagues and attitudes towards remote work. Approximately one third of all remote work hours are shown to take place outside of the home, accounting for over one third of all commuting trips. These commutes to "third places" are shorter, less likely to occur during peak periods, and more likely to use sustainable travel modes than commutes to an employer's primary workplace. Hybrid work arrangements are also associated with a greater number of non-work trips than fully remote and fully in-person arrangements. Implications of this research for policy makers, shared mobility provides and land use planning are discussed.
翻译:自2020年以来,远程工作急剧扩张,颠覆了长期存在的出行模式与行为。更根本的是,远程工作者选择工作时间和地点的灵活性,使得出行行为与组织行为之间形成了更强的关联。本文利用一项覆盖近三年的大型综合性月度纵向调查,识别出远程工作者在工作地点选择、出行方式选择及出发时间方面的新趋势。研究发现,远程工作者的出行行为与雇主特征、任务特征、雇主远程工作政策、同事间的协调以及远程工作态度高度相关。数据显示,约三分之一的远程工作时间发生在家庭以外,这些通勤占所有上下班出行的三分之一以上。与前往雇主主要工作场所的通勤相比,这些前往"第三场所"的通勤行程更短、更少发生在高峰时段,并且更可能采用可持续出行方式。混合工作安排也比完全远程和完全线下工作安排关联更多非工作出行。本文讨论了这项研究对政策制定者、共享出行服务商及土地利用规划的意义。