David Holley
Understanding Business Travel Time and Its Place in the Working Day
Holley, David; Jain, Juliet; Lyons, Glenn
Authors
Juliet Jain Juliet.Jain@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow
Glenn Lyons Glenn.Lyons@uwe.ac.uk
Professor of Future Mobility
Abstract
This article argues that there is a need to understand business travel time in the context of the wider organization of work time. It considers why travel time use is potentially changing with the use of mobile technologies by the increasing number of individuals engaged in ‘knowledge work’, and examines existing evidence that indicates that travel time use is part of a wider work-related ‘taskscape’. However, it not only considers material productive output, but suggests that travel time as ‘time out’ from work-related activities also plays a vital role for employees. It also suggests that business travel time use that is not of benefit to the employer may not be at the employer's expense. This is contrasted with the assumptions used in UK transport appraisal. Data gathered from the autumn 2004 wave of the National Rail Passenger Survey (GB) is used to illustrate some key issues concerning productivity and ‘anti-activity’. A case study of an individual business traveller then points towards the need for a new approach to exploring the role played by travel time in the organization of work practices to be considered. © 2008, Sage Publications. All rights reserved.
Citation
Holley, D., Jain, J., & Lyons, G. (2008). Understanding Business Travel Time and Its Place in the Working Day. Time and Society, 17(1), 27-46. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X07086308
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Jan 1, 2008 |
Deposit Date | Jul 15, 2010 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 22, 2016 |
Journal | Time & Society |
Print ISSN | 0961-463X |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 17 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 27-46 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X07086308 |
Keywords | business travel, business travel, productivity, time use, transport, appraisal |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1014582 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961463X07086308 |
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