Flexible Office Hours

Virtual Office Hours Using NetMeetingTM

The use of the Internet to enable communication between instructors and remote students in a format similar to that used for office hours is a typical feature of many Web-based distance education systems. Virtual office hours (VOH) using the Internet can be established using simple asynchronous tools such as e-mail or discussion lists. A much more effective approach uses synchronous, real-time,...

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A Study of Flexible Working Hours and Motivation

The flexible working hours allows employees to focus on multiple roles in today’s competitive working environments. This arrangement has been widely practiced in order to create balance between work and lifestyle. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the flexible working hours and employees’ motivation. The survey questionnaires were used for data collection in t...

Optimizing Assignment of Knowledge Workers to Office Space Using Knowledge Management Criteria: The Flexible Office Case

Even though knowledge management has been around for more than a decade, so far concrete instruments that can be systematically deployed are still rare. This paper presents an optimization solution targeted at flexible management of office space considering knowledge management criteria in order to enhance knowledge work productivity. The paper presents the Flexible Office conceptual model and ...

Health and psychosocial effects of flexible working hours.

OBJECTIVE To examine whether any impairments in health and social lives can be found under different kinds of flexible working hours, and whether such effects are related to specific characteristics of these working hours. METHODS Two studies -- a company based survey (N=660) and an internet survey (N=528) -- have been conducted. The first one was a questionnaire study (paper and pencil) on e...