“With all the trouble and grief that comes with the coronavirus, this is an incredibly interesting time for mobility researchers.” For Erik Verhoef, professor of spatial economics, it is almost certain: massive working from home will have a structural impact on traffic flows if the economy recovers at some point. \u201cIn the previous crisis, there was less traffic because we started working less. Now there is no traffic, but people are still working remotely”, says the professor. “There were already all kinds of techniques for working remotely. Now they have also been used by people who are less inclined to change. Everyone uses Zoom or another video programme and notices that many meetings work fine in that way. And it saves travel time.”<\/p>\n
This experience is also present at consultancy and engineering firm Tauw. This company with 1,200 employees immediately switched to working from home following the initial corona measures. “Within two days, 90% of the work was done from home,” says director Henrike Branderhorst. “It works smoothly.” “We see that things are possible that were considered impossible four months ago,” adds director Ralph van Roessel (Tauw has a duel leadership model). “We must maintain the flexibility that now appears to be possible in organisations and work processes after the corona crisis. If we don’t do that as a society, that’s a missed opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last Monday, the Knowledge Institute for Mobility Policy (KiM) of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management published an initial study. This shows that 44% of the respondents started working at home more often. Of that group, 61% say that it is easy for them and a quarter say that they also want to work at home more often after the corona crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Employers and employees are now gaining experience with working from home and meeting remotely. This will bring benefits after the crisis. The busiest moments during rush hour \u2013 on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays \u2013 can be smoothed out in this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1619,28],"class_list":["post-6503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-corona-en","tag-leegstand-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n