Telecommunications-Transportation Tradeoff: Options for Tomorrow
Telecommunications-Transportation Tradeoff: Options for Tomorrow
Centralized versus decentralized computing: organizational considerations and management options
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Computing in the home: shifts in the time allocation patterns of households
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
Work at home for computer professionals: current attitudes and future prospects
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Telecommuting '96 conference report: April 25–26, 1996; Jacksonville, FL, USA
ACM SIGOIS Bulletin
Comparison of telework in the US and Japan: a cultural contingency model
SIGCPR '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGCPR/SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research
Telework: when your job is on the line
interactions
Influencing the decision to telework—testing the simplified decision model
SIGCPR '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
ICIS '98 Proceedings of the international conference on Information systems
Information Resources Management Journal
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Remote work refers to organizational work that is performed outside of the normal organizational confines of space and time. The term telecommuting refers to the substitution of communications capabilities for travel to a central work location. Office automation technology permits many office workers to be potential telecommuters in that their work can be performed remotely with computer and communications support. This paper examines some behavioral, organizational, and social issues surrounding remote work, particularly work at home.An exploratory study was conducted of 32 organizational employees who were working at home. Important characteristics of jobs that can be performed at home were: minimum physical requirements, individual control over work pace, defined deliverables, a need for concentration, and a relatively low need for communication. The individuals who worked at home successfully were found to be highly self-motivated and self-disciplined and to have skills which provided them with bargaining power. They also made the arrangement either because of family requirements or because they preferred few social contacts beyond family.