Received: 30 June 2005 Revised: 30 December 2005 Accepted: 20 June 2006 Abstract The reconfiguration of the home-work boundary that at-home telework entails has significant implications for gender issues and the use of ubiquitous information and communications technologies (ICTs). By presenting a Marxinspired dialectical analysis of the family and home as both ‘haven and hell’, we develop a cri...

This paper uses identical surveys conducted in July 2020 eight countries – U.S., U.K., Germany, Italy, Sweden, China, South Korea, and Japan examines teleworking within across these countries. We seek to answer the following questions: (1) Which demographic socioeconomic groups are more likely telework? (2) Is there any association between telework other work-related experiences such as life sa...

This paper seeks to examine from an employee perspective, the promises made on behalf of telework as a new work practice. We are especially concerned with the relationship between gender and telework in relation to home work boundaries, since gender roles in society are largely shaped by home and family. Drawing on management and organisation studies, in the first half of the paper we develop a...

The practice and popularity of telework has expanded significantly in the past few years, mostly due to COVID-19 pandemic. As a critical factor contributing business resilience, new work model challenged companies figure out innovative ways address contemporary organizational employee needs. To this gap, study approaches concept from broader perspective, integrating inputs, outputs outcomes an ...

Abstract Telework became a necessary work arrangement during the global COVID-19 pandemic. However, practical evidence even before pandemic also suggests that telework can adversely affect teleworkers’ colleagues working in office. Those regular office workers may experience negative emotions such as envy which, turn, impact performance and turnover intention. In order to assess adverse effects...

In this study, we utilize an input–output (I–O) model to perform ex-post analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic workforce disruptions in Philippines. Unlike most disasters that debilitate physical infrastructure systems, impact disease pandemics like is mostly concentrated on workforce. Workforce availability was adversely affected by lockdowns as well actual illness. The approach paper use Philippi...