Choosing the New Workplace: The Impact of AI Use at Work on Telecommuting Voluntariness

Nevertheless, there has been relatively limited research exploring how to motivate employees to voluntarily engage in telecommuting arrangements. Drawing on the social identity approach, this study delves into the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) use at work on an individual’s telecommuting voluntariness.

Additionally, by integrating the perspective of flexibility stigma, we examine whether an individual’s perception of flexibility stigma can moderate the relationship above. In a time-lagged field study (Study 1) involving 218 employees in China, the results indicated that AI use at work was positively associated with telecommuting voluntariness through job virtuality. In a scenario experiment (Study 2) with 159 students from a large public university in China, we manipulated the variables of flexibility stigma and job virtuality.