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The Impact of Telework on Local Consumption Evidence from Mobile Phone and Transaction Data

  • Gabrielle Gambuli
  • David Bounie
  • Chloé Breton
  • Etienne Come
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Abstract

While previous studies examine the impact of telework on consumption either near residences or workplaces, the net effect on local demand remains unclear. Using high-frequency mobile phone and card transaction data from Lyon, France’s second-largest functional urban area, we identify two causal demand shocks: a 1pp increase in work-from-home presence raises local spending by 1%, and a 1pp decrease in workplace presence reduces spending by 1.3%. Aggregating these opposing effects, we find a small and statistically insignificant decline in weekday offline consumption, suggesting that most spending shifts from workplace to home. We find that working from home is associated with a moderate spatial shift of spending from urban cores to residential suburbs, and a slight sectoral reallocation from restaurants toward food retail and bars.

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@misc{gambuli2026impact,
  title = {{The Impact of Telework on Local Consumption Evidence from Mobile Phone and Transaction Data}},
  author = {Gabrielle Gambuli and David Bounie and Chloé Breton and Etienne Come},
  howpublished = {HAL},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  url = {https://insee.hal.science/hal-05772688v1},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - The Impact of Telework on Local Consumption Evidence from Mobile Phone and Transaction Data
AU  - Gabrielle Gambuli
AU  - David Bounie
AU  - Chloé Breton
AU  - Etienne Come
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/30
PB  - HAL
UR  - https://insee.hal.science/hal-05772688v1
AB  - While previous studies examine the impact of telework on consumption either near residences or workplaces, the net effect on local demand remains unclear. Using high-frequency mobile phone and card transaction data from Lyon, France’s second-largest functional urban area, we identify two causal demand shocks: a 1pp increase in work-from-home presence raises local spending by 1%, and a 1pp decrease in workplace presence reduces spending by 1.3%. Aggregating these opposing effects, we find a small and statistically insignificant decline in weekday offline consumption, suggesting that most spending shifts from workplace to home. We find that working from home is associated with a moderate spatial shift of spending from urban cores to residential suburbs, and a slight sectoral reallocation from restaurants toward food retail and bars.
ER  -