Table 5. Binary logit models: working from home in the future

Independent variables Dependent variable
WFH Primarily in the future WFH Some of the time in the future Desire to WFH in the future
1st survey coef. (s.e.) 2nd survey coef. (s.e.) 1st survey coef. (s.e.) 2nd survey coef. (s.e.) 1st survey coef. (s.e.) 2nd survey coef. (s.e.)
Gender: Female –0.177 0.367 –0.169 0.169 –0.068 0.481***
(0.203) (0.235) (0.178) (0.197) (0.160) (0.176)
Aged 18–24 0.279 –0.869** 0.580* –0.373 –0.822*** 0.005
(0.337) (0.423) (0.304) (0.300) (0.291) (0.268)
Aged 50 years and older 0.019 –0.082 0.228 –0.337 –0.183 –0.079
(0.243) (0.282) (0.214) (0.246) (0.188) (0.218)
Children present –0.127 –0.618** –0.114 –0.436** –0.272* –0.277
(0.207) (0.248) (0.182) (0.207) (0.164) (0.183)
Educational attainment (reference: high school degree or less)
 Associates or some college (no degree) 0.173 0.951* 0.247 0.551 0.309 0.956***
(0.410) (0.499) (0.334) (0.369) (0.310) (0.331)
 Bachelors 0.405 0.694 0.328 0.852** 1.005*** 1.329***
(0.390) (0.487) (0.322) (0.355) (0.294) (0.322)
 Masters or higher 0.473 0.312 0.316 0.446 1.215*** 1.417***
(0.393) (0.525) (0.324) (0.380) (0.299) (0.341)
Attitudes towards COVID-19
 Believers 0.227** 0.085 0.012 –0.060 0.274*** –0.026
(0.113) (0.146) (0.094) (0.120) (0.089) (0.108)
 Deniers 0.152 0.027 0.089 –0.085 –0.173** –0.285***
(0.105) (0.133) (0.093) (0.111) (0.087) (0.101)
Transportation
 Vehicles per adult –0.262 –0.066 –0.068 –0.138 –0.136 0.744**
(0.212) (0.483) (0.182) (0.398) (0.168) (0.338)
 Long commute before COVID (1 hr+) –0.285 0.325 –0.041 0.598** 0.286 0.315
(0.294) (0.328) (0.249) (0.294) (0.232) (0.268)
 WFH at least 3 days a week during COVID 0.900*** 2.053*** 0.968*** 1.716*** 1.005*** 1.269***
(0.221) (0.328) (0.179) (0.209) (0.157) (0.179)
 Had a job that allowed them to WFH before COVID 0.740*** 1.037*** 1.803*** 1.476*** 0.661*** 1.287***
(0.210) (0.245) (0.183) (0.203) (0.163) (0.193)
 Constant –2.669*** –4.098*** –2.356*** –2.562*** –1.528*** –2.816***
(0.455) (0.603) (0.385) (0.419) (0.343) (0.383)
Observations 909 712 835 655 910 712
Log likelihood –374.979 –241.703 –444.114 –322.958 –535.404 –396.477
Log likelihood of intercept only model –416.505 –311.497 –556.741 –436.010 –645.858 –506.684
Akaike Inf. Crit. 777.959 511.407 916.228 673.915 1,098.808 820.953
TJUR R2 (Tjur, 2009) 0.05 0.09 0.20 0.19 0.15 0.18
p<0.10,
p<0.05,
p<0.01.
WFH, work from home.