In the present-day challenging environment of doing business, organizations have increased pressure for performing better as compared to before. Consequently, are inspired towards creating working schedules their employees in order them increase and improve on performances. Firms globally laying plans ways boosting employees’ enhanced performance. Employee motivation by recognizing benefit work...

This paper analyzes 1968 and 1987-88 metropolitan Washington, DC household travel surveys to understand the daily allocation of time among different activities of individuals classified by work status and gender. The increase in female labor force participation rates has produced an increase in overall time spent at work per person. The increase in work trips and the simultaneous increase in no...

Accessibility is both an important concept, and a powerful indicator, in the understanding of the impact of spatial technologies, i.e. transportation, communication, and information technologies. However, virtually all existing measures of intra-metropolitan accessibility incorporate only transportation without considering other means of spatial interaction. In this paper, the author argues tha...

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...

It is widely considered that by implementing ICT (Information and Communication Technologies)-enhanced networks, economic performance will further increase. However, when it is established that work can be done more efficiently—shouldn’t that also allow people to work less? The article addresses a new vision of developments concerning work relations, work organisation and the distribution of wo...

This paper examines the prospects for rural areas within the Information Society, referring particularly to the EU experience. Among these are the diminishing e!ects of distance from core markets and enhancing the learning capacities of rural areas by improving access to relevant information. EU policy to date has been in#uenced by a strong technology dimension with an emphasis on the installat...

While technology enables home-based telecommuting (HBT), it also has been blamed for its slow growth. Thus, technology both may facilitate and hinder HBT. In order to clarify the role that technology currently plays when employees HBT, this study investigated the relationship between different forms of organizational support (classified as technology-related, somewhat technology-related, and no...