While there is considerable literature reporting the results of studies of benefits and problems associated with telecommuting, there is little research available addressing how the perceptions of these might differ according to whether one is working as a telecommuter or not. Variations in these perceptions may indicate potential managerial problems and may affect the viability of the programm...

The fear that telecommuting will have a negative impact on career advancement prospects has been a barrier to telecommuting acceptance. This study sought to examine whether professionals who telecommute on a part-time basis did indeed experience less advancement prospects than their non-telecommuting peers did. The results indicate that this fear is unfounded. Telecommuting did not have a direc...

While there has been considerable research on the effect of telecommuting on worker’s productivity and quality of work life, there is considerably less work on the managerial problems associated with selecting, monitoring and compensating workers involved in telecommuting. We propose a model based on contract theory to analyze the managerial decisions on telecommuting, focusing on: 1) How manag...

Transportation control measures are often implemented for their environmental benefits, but there is a need to quantify what benefits actually occur. Telecommuting has the potential to reduce the number of daily trips and miles traveled with personal vehicles and, consequently, the overall emissions resulting from vehicle activity. This search studies the emissions impacts of telecommuting for ...

Telecommuting (or Telework) is now relaxing more and more workers from traditional 9-to-5 routines in many countries. In this paper, we do some research on China’s actuality, and try to give out some reasonable suggestions to support Telecommuting, on the basis of learning from the developed countries.

While there is considerable literature reporting the results of studies of benefits and problems associated with telecommuting, there is little longitudinal research available addressing how the perceptions of these may change over time an important aspect for those considering setting up telecommuting programmes. Staff working in a software development area in a major international organisatio...

A comprehensive model of three distinct dimensions of work-related choices is proposed in this study. The different choice dimensions considered are work-hour arrangement, location, and frequency of telecommuting. Such a model underscores the role of employee work-hour arrangement in telecommuting choices by bringing out the differences in preferences for telecommuting frequency (both home and ...

Purpose – Telecommuting continues to be a topic of interest for practitioners and researchers alike. There are significant numbers of employees currently involved in telecommuting around the globe. Organizational implications, global workforce implications and the scarcity of scholarly publications make this research topic one that warrants our further investigation. The purpose of this paper i...

This paper proposes a systematic approach that will help managers evaluate the suitabilitv of alternative telecommuting configurations. In particular, the main task of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework and a decision support system (DSS) for telecommuting managers to assess the tradeogs involved in introducing telecommuting in their organisations. The proposed DSS is in the form o...