|Interacting with colleagues|-0.030|-0.025|-0.022|-0.078|-0.000|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||[0.036]|[0.041]|[0.071]|[0.054]|[0.048]|
|**Treatment Arms /Description of Job B (**<br>|**ref: Job B1 WFH**<br>|**5d/week, 10% ea**<br>|**rnings cut)**|||
|B2: WFH 5d/week, 20% earnings cut|0.087<sup>**</sup>|0.081<sup>*</sup>|0.057|0.082|0.101<sup>**</sup>|
||[0.037]|[0.041]|[0.085]|[0.055]|[0.051]|
|B3: WFH 2d/week, 10% earnings cut|-0.002|-0.032|0.088|-0.010|0.007|
||[0.037]|[0.042]|[0.084]|[0.055]|[0.051]|
|B4: WFH 2d/week, 20% earnings cut|0.085<sup>**</sup>|0.089<sup>**</sup>|0.068|0.046|0.129<sup>**</sup>|
||[0.038]|[0.042]|[0.090]|[0.056]|[0.053]|
|Constant|0.439<sup>***</sup>|0.516<sup>***</sup>|0.026|0.366<sup>*</sup>|0.607<sup>**</sup>|
||[0.167]|[0.182]|[0.404]|[0.188]|[0.236]|
|Education Controls|Yes|Yes|Yes|Yes|Yes|
|Ethnicity Controls|Yes|Yes|Yes|Yes|Yes|
|Income Level Controls|Yes|Yes|Yes|Yes|Yes|
|Mean|0.425|0.379|0.587|0.435|0.416|
|N|1338|1038|300|620|718|
|R-squared|0.089|0.078|0.142|0.110|0.108|

As we see in Table 6 above, overall, there is considerable heterogeneity in preferences for flexibility. Even after controlling for a range of individual demographic, educational, and economic characteristics, preferences of job characteristics, and attributes of their current jobs, the unexplained variation in the preference for working from home is very high as the value of the R-squared of the estimation is only ~ 9 percent. However, the share of explained variation for freelancers is about half that of those in standard employment, further underlining that this is an extremely heterogeneous group with no single or dominant preference for the location of work.

Overall, workers in standard employment have a lower willingness to pay for the option to work from home. Single persons, especially those in standard employment, are more likely to prefer working from an office. Surprisingly, other demographic characteristics do not appear to be associated with a preference to work from home.

The association of flexibility with (i) the desired attributes of a job, and (ii) the extent to which workers’ current jobs provide them adequately shows some interesting results. Those who state that they value flexibility at work a lot, and also those who assess the level of flexibility enjoyed by them in their current work as adequate, especially among freelancers, are also more likely to prefer not to work from an office. However, those who attach him important to earning well, and to acquire new skills (the latter especially among men), prefer to work from an office. These results suggest a clear tension between attaching importance to earning money and professional development on the one hand, and flexibility with respect to the choice of working from home.

Finally, we see that those in treatment arms which imply a higher wage cut (20%) for being able to work from home are 10% more likely to prefer working from an office, compared to the comparison category (presented with the option to work from home every day for 10% lower earnings). Interestingly, and somewhat in contrast to other studies on the preference for the location of work (Lewandowski et al. 2022, Aksoy et al., 2022), we do not see a difference in the preference for working from home between full (five days per week) and ‘hybrid’ options (2 days per week) at the same level of earnings reduction (i.e.

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