Abstract In this study with regard to employees’ personality types, namely, extroverts and introverts based on Jung’s typology Model, it is targeted to demonstrate which group has more congruencies to the features of telecommuting to experience less burnout result from the qualities of this type of workplace. Besides, the model of this study is inspired by person-environment ft theory. The samples were 86 females and 130 males from Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare of Iran. The teleworking burnout and personality questionnaires with 28 statements for gathering data; in addition, SPSS 16 and Lisrel 8.8 for descriptive and inferential statistics were applied. From given data, it was obvious there was a correlation between extraversion and burnout with correlation rate of 0.55, whereas introversion had zero effect on burnout with correlation rate of -0.13. It can be concluded introverted employees can face stresses resulting from telecommunication more easily than extroverted ones regarding differences between these two characteristics. Keywords: Extraversion-Introversion Personality Traits, Telecommunication, Burnout A Study of Personality Traits, viz., Extraversion and Introversion on Telecommuters’ Burnout Rahil Meymandpour*, Zahra Bagheri** *Ph.D. Student, Department of Management Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India. Email: meymandpour.rahil@yahoo.com **Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Email: bagherizb@gmail.com 1. Introduction The extended services usage of informative technology and its effect on human’s life in various ways is an avowed phenomenon (Amiel & Sargent, 2004). Social interaction through the Internet has more benefts than traditional one (Bargh & McKenna, 2004), so the function of telecommunication has increased (Useem & Harington, 2000) enabling employees to have a remote offce work (Herschel & Andrews, 1997), called ‘telecommuting’, coined by Jack Nilles in 1973 (Nilles, Carlson, Gray & Hanneman, 1976). Whereas anybody designated to telecommute has not the capability of doing so (Novaco & Gonzalez, 2009). It might be a well-chosen professional for individuals who cannot declare themselves in face to face interaction (Amichai-Hamburger & Ben-Artzi, 2000; McKenna, Green & Gleason, 2002). Moreover the effect of personality characteristics on work-related outcomes is an escapable phenomenon (George, 1992). Then employers can fnd the suited-personality employees to telework, being independent on social interactions in workplace (Moss & Carey, 1994). From the point of view of personality, it can be either extrovert or introvert one (Jung, 1971). The former type is sociable, seeks more companionships and extrinsic opportunities to interact and being with others. While the latter type prefers one’s own companionship, doesn’t enjoy large social events and is seen as quiet and remote individual (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1975). Verily, employers should assess employee’s suitability to recruit adaptable one for such a remote work (Whitehead, 1999) which has features like employees’ less informal interactions (Ellison, 1999) and no face to face contact with the addressee resulting in outcomes such as the feeling of being in the highly protective milieu (Hamburger & Ben-Artzi, 2000) and role ambiguity leading to job stressors (Martino & Wirth, 1990). So these job characteristics and stressors bring about employee’s burnout (Van den Broeck, Vansteenkiste, De Witte & Lens, 2008). Burnout is defned as a chronic response to emotional and interpersonal stressors (Maslach, Schaufeli & Leiter, 2001). So employees should carry an especial personality to handle the features of telecommuting. Individual characteristics can affect telecommuting practices and adoption (Peters, Tijdens & Wetzels, 2001). In the context of a research problem, it is worthwhile to investigate whether personality styles; extraversion and introversion can have signifcant effects on the employees’ teleworking burnout. In the following related works are inquired to fnd a proper answer. Article can be accessed online at http://www.publishingindia.com