In the current study we explore how different reasons for telecommuting tend to co-occur within an individual, i.e., which types of telecommuters exist. A Latent Class Analysis uncovered three distinct types: the job requirement class (telecommuting because one has to), the efficiency class (telecommuting to cope with deadlines and pressure) and the work-life balance class (telecommuting to have a healthy balance between work and family/leisure). Follow-up analyses showed that employees belonging to the same class also tend to share a certain context (in terms of job characteristics such as speed of work and autonomy). Furthermore, the telecommuting motive classes predicted outcomes six months later: whereas employees in the job requirement class didn’t experience any outcomes, employees in the efficiency class reported more vigor and less emotional exhaustion, and employees in the work-life balance class reported more vigor, less emotional exhaustion and more job satisfaction. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.