研究人员称，远程办公等弹性工作模式有益于身体健康。研究人员发现，如果人们有条件在家工作，压缩工作周的时间，那他们就可以选择更为健康的生活方式，锻炼身体的机会增多，睡眠也会更好。
可能弹性工作模式让人们能有更充裕的时间来实现健康的生活方式，或者是它让人 们能更好的安排自己的时间。弹性工作制最初是为了帮助人们（尤其是女性）同时兼顾工作和家庭，但有关证据表明这显然不仅仅是女性的问题。
研究人员对一家大型医药公司职员的“健康风险评估”进行了分析，职员涉及仓储， 生产和管理等多个不同的岗位。
一名研究人员说：“这不仅仅针对管理层，而是涉及到公司各个岗位的员工。”他说， 该研究能让卫生部门和相关机构认识到，给员工更多的自由其实能带来很多益处。但他也说，要评估弹性工作制的长期益处还需要开展进一步研究。
A flexible work life such as telecommuting is good for our health, researchers said. They found that if people have the ability to work at home and to compress work weeks, they are more likely to make healthier lifestyle choices, to exercise more and to sleep better.
Perhaps it gives people the time to fit in healthier lifestyle into their everyday regimen or maybe it just enables people to better manage their time. While the primary purpose behind the flexibility movement was to help people, especially women, combine work and family, evidence suggests this is clearly not only a women's issue.
The researchers analyze Health Risk Appraisals from employees in jobs ranging from warehouse and production workers to executives at a large multinational pharmaceutical company.
"It's not just about management," says one researcher. "It's about people in every position in the company. "He said the study could help health departments and agencies realize that giving workers more freedom could have many benefits. But, he added, further research was needed to assess the long-term benefits.
