Volume 10 (2019): Issue 1 (March 2019)

Relationship between the Financial Indicators and the Implementation of Telework

Miroslava Vlčková, Zuzana Frantíková, Jaroslav Vrchota
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Abstract

In most European countries, teleworking or homeworking is used in various forms that differ from one another by its legal regulation. The paper examines the SME’s in the Czech Republic from the perspective what makes them to adopt telework using the financial indicators. We hypothesized that employer adoption of telework would depend on some economic factors. The empirical evidence showed that a typical company that uses telework is a company with higher ratio of liabilities and therefore lower ratio of equity, a lower ratio of fixed assets, higher sales, lower inventory, higher labour productivity and higher value added per employee, higher return on equity, higher personnel costs, higher average wages. Within the analysed enterprises, 16 indicators were assessed; the 9 indicators showed the difference between companies that use telework and companies that do not use telework. The research shows a typical company that uses telework.

Keywords
Telework, SME’s, Financial and Economic Indicators, Mann-Whitney U test
Received
July 29, 2026
Revised
July 29, 2026
Accepted
July 29, 2026
Published
April 24, 2019

Citation:

Vlčková, M., Frantíková, Z., & Vrchota, J. (2019). Relationship between the Financial Indicators and the Implementation of Telework DANUBE, 10(1), 45-66. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.2478/danb-2019-0003.
Vlčková Miroslava, Frantíková Zuzana, and Vrchota Jaroslav 2019. „Relationship between the Financial Indicators and the Implementation of Telework“ DANUBE 10 (1): 45-66.
VLČKOVÁ, Miroslava, FRANTÍKOVÁ, Zuzana a VRCHOTA, Jaroslav. Relationship between the Financial Indicators and the Implementation of Telework DANUBE, 2019, roč. 10, č. 1, s. 45-66.
Vlčková, M., Frantíková, Z., and Vrchota, J. (2019) ‚Relationship between the Financial Indicators and the Implementation of Telework‘, DANUBE, 10(1), pp. 45-66.