WOPE Seminar Series. Relocation Intentions in the Remote Work Era: Evidence from a Hybrid Choice Model Approach
Published: 28 April 2026
20 May 2026. WOPE Seminar Series with Dr Slawomir Kuzmar, Poznań University of Economics and Business
Dr Slawomir Kuzmar, Poznan University of Economics and Business. "Relocation Intentions in the Remote Work Era: Evidence from a Hybrid Choice Model Approach."
Wednesday, 20 May 2026. 15:00-16:30 Room 489, Adam Smith Business School
Abstract
Has remote work truly loosened the spatial tether binding workers to city centres — or merely reshuffled where people live within the same metropolitan systems?
This presentation introduces the concept and design of an upcoming study that addresses this question using a Hybrid Choice Model combining a conjoint experiment on residential attributes with latent constructs capturing multi-dimensional residential (dis)satisfaction. The planned empirical strategy rests on a cross-national online survey of around 3,600 metropolitan residents in six European countries (France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sweden), targeting workers in occupations with high teleworkability.
The proposed framework will test four hypotheses: whether teleworkers (i) are more likely to express relocation intentions, (ii) hold systematically different residential preferences — lower valuation of workplace proximity, higher valuation of dwelling size and lower-density amenities, (iii) experience higher residential dissatisfaction, and (iv) behave differently across national contexts shaped by housing markets, macroeconomic conditions, and mobility cultures.
By jointly modelling stated preferences and latent attitudes, the study aims to move beyond binary "will they move?" questions toward a structural understanding of how remote work reshapes residential decision-making — with direct implications for whether telework can rebalance the European core–periphery landscape or merely stretch metropolitan systems outward.
Bio
Sławomir Kuźmar, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Macroeconomics and Development Research at the Poznań University of Economics and Business. His research interests encompass contemporary labor market challenges, with a particular focus on remote work, the role of technology in labor market dynamics, the impact of technological advancement on socio-economic inequalities and residential relocation. He is the author and co-author of several dozen scientific publications appearing in journals such as Human Technology, Post-Communist Economies, Panoeconomicus, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and Applied Geography. Dr. Kuźmar has carried out several research projects funded by the DG REGIO of the European Commission and National Science Centre in Poland and is currently a member of the project – REWORK: Can Remote Working Make the Labour Market More Inclusive.
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First published: 28 April 2026