Productivity in Knowledge Worker Teams
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The use of Information and Communication Technologies in work processes has not brought the expected productivity improvement. Some studies even suggest that the always-on model decreases productivity. This article proposes work teams as a new unit for knowledge worker productivity analysis in organizations. Organizations’ ability to adopt new analysis measures is analyzed in three case studies.
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