In Japan, the continual rise in the number of people moving to Tokyo is causing various economic and social problems, including high o&e rents, housing shortages, trafic jams, and obligatory long-distance commuting. To try to curb this concentration in Tokyo, government agencies and private companies have set up projects and research groups to study distributing ofice space. We have been studyi...

Describes a case research study into how knowledge workers adopt telework as an alternative work arrangement. It reports how knowledge workers in two New Zealand organisations organise their workload to take advantage of the information and Internet technology available to them in their work and home environments. The findings of the study indicate that knowledge workers are inclined to use hom...

The fear of managers that they will lose control once their employees start teleworking is hindering acceptance and use of teleworking. As an alternative the concept of clan control can be used, which is a way to create a sharing of assumptions and goal congruence among a group of individuals. Since clan control does not require close monitoring it can easily be used in a teleworking context wh...

Scholars emphasize the importance of rich communication media for the development of teleworkers’ organizational identification, but tests of these relationships have produced inconsistent results. The connectivity paradox helps explain these findings. The paradox suggests that teleworkers’ connectivity to others through communication media facilitates remote work by affording greater social pr...

The COVID-19 pandemic has made teleworking a widespread form of work for contact center workers in Portugal, who are already used to processes supported by technological platforms and digital workflows, but with little adherence remote work. Deepening knowledge about the impact on well-being at is relevant issue context organizational literature. We conducted 14 semi-structured interviews large...

Because of the increasing competitive pressures from globalisation, organisations are looking for better ways to face this challenge based on more flexible and effective working methods. Teleworking has been identified as one possible answer to this problem. Management of big software development projects, distributed among several design centres, has also already taken place using well-establi...

Title of dissertation: ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF WOMEN, WORK AND FAMILY Lisa Jeanne Dettling Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by: Professor Melissa S. Kearney Department of Economics This dissertation explores recent trends in female labor supply and fertility, focusing on the impact of two modern phenomena that affected women’s work and family formation decisions: the introduc...