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Record W4406226612 · doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2024.12.155

Understanding Employee Preferences towards Flexible Work Arrangements for the COVID-19 Post-Pandemic Period

2025· article· en· W4406226612 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueTransportation research procedia · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicE-Learning and Knowledge Management
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Pandemic2019-20 coronavirus outbreakPeriod (music)Work (physics)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)BusinessEconomicsVirologyEngineeringMedicineMechanical engineeringOutbreak

Abstract

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This research examines employees’ preferences toward post-pandemic flexible work arrangements (FWA) using logit modelling techniques. First, it conducts an online questionnaire survey among working professionals in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), Canada, to gather information on their socio-demographics, travel characteristics and work arrangements before and during the pandemic, and their preferences towards post-pandemic work from home (WFH) and flexible work hours (FWH). Using the collected 337 complete responses, then it develops a binary logit model (BLM) to examine factors affecting employees’ WFH choice, a multinomial logit model (MLM) to examine the choice of WFH frequency, and an ordered logit model (OLM) to investigate preference for FWH. Results show that approximately 55% of the employees prefer WFH, while almost half of the respondents prefer WFH a few days/week. Logit model results indicate that increasing WFH preference also increases FWH preference, while employees who perceive higher importance of FWH tend to choose higher WFH frequency. Employees with higher commute frequency during the pandemic are less likely to prefer FWA post-pandemic. Increasing commute time increases the willingness to have FWH. The results will assist transport policymakers in better understanding the factors influencing employees’ FWA choices which will aid in developing effective TDM policies.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.980
Threshold uncertainty score0.672

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.347
GPT teacher head0.431
Teacher spread0.084 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it