TABLE 1.

Opportunities and risks of teleworking.

Opportunities	Source	Risks	Sources
Offers job opportunities for people with disabilities and for women increases job opportunities for women and employees with disability.	Morgan, 2004	Reduction of the learning benefits that is available when people are working in the same workplace.	Cooper and Kurland, 2002
Global workforce available, access to a specialized knowledge regardless of geographic location.	Malhotra et al., 2007	Social and professional isolation.	Cooper and Kurland, 2002; Golden et al., 2008; Pyoria, 2011; Bentley, 2014
Greater competitiveness to successfully insert in global work environments.	Avolio et al., 2014; Narayanan et al., 2017	Employees concerns due to the reduction of career prospects by feeling less visible.	Maruyama and Tietze, 2012
Lower stress, lesser turnover intentions, lesser work-family imbalance and job satisfaction.	Kossek et al., 2006; Gajendran and Harrison, 2007; Fonner and Roloff, 2010; Coenen and Kok, 2014; Vega et al., 2015	Because the flexibility, highly motivated employees can work more hours than in traditional work environment, resulting in exhaustion.	Putnam et al., 2014
Autonomy and flexibility at work allow harmonizing the personal and work matters favoring the workers’ well-being.	Fedakova and Ištoňová, 2017	Physical distance and cultural diversity threaten trust building, commitment and cohesion among the team members.	Hoch and Kozlowski, 2014
Information availability increases job performance.	Schwarzmüller et al., 2018	Lower job performance and demotivation.	Golden et al., 2008; Wojcak et al., 2016; Fedakova and Ištoňová, 2017
Contribute to the solution of global problems such as pollution and air quality, while influencing the firms’ reputation.	Giovanis, 2018	Work-home conflicts.	Golden et al., 2008; Bentley, 2014; Delanoeije and Verbruggen, 2019
The team members’ heterogeneity promotes creativity and innovation through a combination of various perspectives to achieve an objective.	Gupta and Pathak, 2018	Work and information overload that overlap with domestic and work settings.	Cortellazzo et al., 2019; Gálvez et al., 2020
Decreases absenteeism due to employees do not have to face difficulties to reach the workplace.	Nakrošienė et al., 2019
Opportunity to interact and establish effective virtual teams, increasing their creative capacity.	Malhotra et al., 2007; Schwarzmüller et al., 2018; Cortellazzo et al., 2019
Work autonomy and less distraction potentially allow higher productivity.	Kłopotek, 2017; Pavlova, 2019

Source: Authors own elaboration.