Telework and multi-office

Access to home-based telework: a multi-level and multi-actor perspective

14 Access to home-based telework: a multi-level and multi-actor perspective

Who Can Telework? the Influence of Job Category and Individual Job Traits on Employees’ Access to Weekly Home-based Telework: a Multi-actor Perspective

This large-scale study analyses the influence of co-ordination and trust problems on employees’ access to weekly home-based teleworking from a combined perspective of transaction-cost theory and new economic-sociology. Access is more likely when additional co-ordination and control problems are smaller. Indicators of the so-called ‘telework-risk’ are ‘time sovereignty’, ‘job autonomy’, ‘job int...

Communication and Organizational Implications of a Multi-Media Application for Reporting on Telework

Various authors report that managers of teleworkers perceive the management of teleworkers to be problematic. To counter this, a multimedia mail type of application was developed that could allow teleworkers to create detailed multi-media reports on their work. In this paper, I report on the rationale used to justify the design of the application, propose a critique of this rationale, and prese...

Telework Arrangements Demand in Finland

For many years the information society has been a target for speculation, and today the United States (Information highways), European Union, and national governments, along with advanced companies, are taking steps towards systematic policy changes and enlarged applications for information technology. One part of these activities lies in the area of workplace reform, where telework is going to...