Recently, “telework” and “workcations” have become interesting topics of discussions in Japan; however, similar were held Japan around 1990. At that time, there was a focus on “multi-habitation,” but reality, the concept “multi-office” working (wherein manager belongs to two offices, head office or parent company Tokyo area local branch subsidiary) considered more important. In this evolved “ma...

Curb cuts are the mmps set into sidewalks to make buildings more accessible to persons in wheelchairs. With fowthought, they are easy to install, they provide access for persons with physical impairmenti, and at the same time they may be used by able-bodiedpersons for pushing strollers, shopping carts, and the like. Just like curb cuts in the physical communily, telework in the virtual communit...

Abstract The goal of this article is to examine the influence telework on organizational performance. Telework a work process that help employees do their job activities from distance or out surroundings. study’s research questions concentrated analyzing opinions 30 respondents within multinational e-commerce corporation concerning relationship between and performance based company’s effectiven...

Telemedicine is a kind of telework application which refers to the performance of an information task remotely from the traditional work place in a hospital or clinic via communication technology in the health care industries. The requirement on real-time multimedia data transmission along the telecommunication channel for .solving critical cases often complicates the design of telemedicine. Th...

Contemporary organizations and communities make increasing use of advanced information system and communication technologies to collaborate and interact with each other in geographically and temporally distributed settings. In broad terms, these are referred to as virtual environments. Examples of such virtual environments include virtual work (encompassing telework and distributed work), virtu...

Although policymakers are beginning to recognize that the use of ICTs can be used to help create reasonable workplace accommodation for people with disabilities, focused, comprehensive programs targeted at advancing these applications of ICT have yet to be developed. This paper provides an overview and a philosophical comparison of both the U.S. and European policies on telework for people with...

How do workers make sense of telework and respond to it in turbulent times? This study a consultancy firm Spain, during the 2008 financial crisis, explores employee interpretations context major macro-economic disruption. We draw on signalling theory consider as signal sent by organisation argue that environment which occurs changes employees' interpretations. While is generally understood an e...