THE EFFECT OF TELEWORK ON JOB SATISFACTION

In this thesis, I examined the relationship between telework and the level of job satisfaction. Especially, by making a distinction between teleworkers in the private and public sector in search of sectoral factors that may influence the effect of telework on job satisfaction to be more profound in one of these sectors. In order to investigate this effect, I used data from the Dutch Labor Supply Panel from the year 2012 to perform ordered logit models. After controlling for certain aspects of job satisfaction and personal characteristics, I find statistical support for the positive effect of telework on the level of job satisfaction. In line with the interpretation of an ordered logit model, this suggest that employees that telework are more likely to be in a higher level of job satisfaction. However, including a distinction between teleworkers in the private and the public sector appears to show no statistical significant differences between these sectors. Checking for sectoral differences among teleworkers on the level of job satisfaction seems to show little to no evidence.