Employees who work flexible hours from home at least once a week experience less burnout and can work longer with less work-life conflict than traditional 8-to-5 office dwellers, said lead study author E. Jeffrey Hill, a professor in the School of Family Life.
"When you have that sense of autonomy … in where or when you're going to work, then the natural outgrowth of that is job satisfaction," Hill said. "When you add flex time to flex place, the benefits are dramatic."
Of the more than 24,000 IBM employees Hill studied, those on a set office schedule reached burnout at 38 hours, while telecommuters with a flexible schedule went nearly 57 hours before reaching work-life conflict.
Hill can personally attest to results like these, having been one of the first telecommuters at IBM in the early '90s. The Deseret News
