ABSTRACT
Working conditions in economically advanced societies have been subject to numerous studies. Researchers have dealt with issues such as physical environments, working hours, workload, work intensity, occupational health and stress, pay systems, job contents, opportunities for training and career, job autonomy, task discretion and employees’ influence over decision-making in the organization. After decades of research we have access to a huge body of knowledge regarding various aspects of people’s working conditions. Yet, not much attention has been paid to the fact that travel is an important element in many jobs. The present chapter is an attempt to provide some remedy for this. It is aimed at contributing new knowledge about people’s subjective relationship to travel because of work assignments. The main question raised is whether, or rather to what degree, job travelers consider travel stimulating and stressful, respectively. In either case, this kind of activity may have significant impact on job satisfaction. The empirical basis for the analysis is a Swedish survey among a random sample of employed individuals, carried out in 2005.
