• The main impact is that flexible employment arrangements, including teleworking can be an efficient policy, especially when the employees have the option to choose their implementation with various plausible benefits to workplace, including costs saving and improved productivity.
• On the other hand, the benefits for the employees, besides the plausible performance payments and other related benefits, include job satisfaction improvement, ability to cope with their family demands, resulting to improvement of their work-family balance and their overall well-being as WP3 explores.
• Additionally, it is hopeful that this research may offer insights to decision makers related to the human resource policies review to adopt and implement them as they may improve the firm performance. This may result from various factors, including employee engagement and loyalty, job satisfaction, work autonomy, work-life balance and others. Therefore, this study proposes to further explore all these interrelationships, accounting for the flexible labour schemes. Having also in mind that their implementation is not very costly is another motivation for the firms.
• Overall, by implementing teleworking, the number of people driving alone is decreased, which is a key for traffic and air pollution reduction, and a factor that reduces fuel consumption. In this case teleworking can be a viable short- and long-term solution to emissions, fuel consumption and traffic congestion reduction, especially in the urban areas and an important tool for the quality of life improvement. The distance travelled for business can be also lower through the increased use of teleconferencing and video conferencing, which are parts of the teleworking. In addition, the reduction of traffic and air pollution can have positive effects on environment and public health. Moreover, air quality improvement reduces the hospital admissions, through the improvement of health status.
• Future studies can examine how the couples participate in the leisure, the labour market, and how they share the household expenditures among them and their children. Within the intra-household collective modelling framework, the relationship between teleworking and fertility can be explored. Since, the reduction of fertility is an issue in the western societies, with various effects on the society, such as the increase of an ageing population and burden to the pension and health care system, teleworking may be a solution to fertility.
• In line with this area, the effects of the teleworking on the job search of disabled people, their labour participation, and overall well-being is another interesting point of research. Studies should investigate whether teleworking offers opportunities for disabled people to participate in the labour market, as they may face discrimination, because of physical and mobility problems.
