Telecommuting creates a host of opportunities and challenges for managers and workers. Based on the results of a 26 semi-structured interviews, we explore individual’s motives underlying the decision to telecommute. In addition, our purpose was to investigate and understand the advantages and disadvantages of telecommuting from the worker’s perspective. References to advantages, disadvantages a...

In the standard urban model, employment is concentrated in the Central Business District (CBD) and the locational choice of households is modeled solely on access to the employment center. Now, technology has facilitated the emergence of new office environments where work is done at unconventional locations that were earlier in the CBD. While the urban density function is not really new, in thi...

This paper addresses inter-agent interactions, an issue that has received little attention in travel behavior research. Drawing upon the economic theory of externalities and the sociological paradigm of social networks, we develop a discrete choice model that incorporates elements of social influence in addition to more conventional factors such as the attributes of alternatives and the charact...

Today's telecommuting workforce encompasses all categories of workers including managers, professionals and other knowledge workers. While organizations have the choice of mandating telecommuting or offering it as an option, individuals also have the choice of participating or not when telecommuting is optional. This research investigated whether individual factors, such as age, skills, identi®...

In this paper the use of telecommuting by a large, Austrahan based organization is discussed l3fi employees and twelve managers were involved. These participants completed questionnaires evaluating the method of telecommutingfrom both teiecommuters’ and their managers’ perspectives. The results indicated that since the introduction of tekcommuting: (I) telecommuters’ productivity had increased,...

The research aims to identify the mechanisms of Telecommuting at Ministry Youth and Sports in Arab Republic Egypt for its implementation during Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by specifying obligations remote work level each (senior management, General Administration Human Resources, Information Systems, employees Sports) evaluate performance period Corona pandemic. Descriptive survey approach ...

Innovation literature has long advocated that an innovation may be compatible or incompatible with an organization’s existing systems or resources (Rogers 1983). Compatibility of an innovation has traditionally meant that the innovation is compatible with the existing values, skills, and work practices of potential adopters. However, Tornatzky and Klein (1982) criticized this multi-faceted defi...