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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"telecommuting"”.
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Telecommuting: The Affects and Effects on Non-Telecommuters
Telecommuting is a significant workplace innovation that allows an increasing portion of the work force to work from home or work at a location remote from the central workplace at least one-day a week. Previous studies (Bélanger, 1999; Pinsonneault & Boisvert, 2001; Potter, 2003) have outlined …
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A Theoretical Synthesis of Telecommuting and Incidence of Family Violence
… made working in the home a practicality. Dubbed ?telecommuting,? this manner of work describes a circumstance where the employee, through the use of some form of telecommunications device (most often a computer with some form of modem), works at a location other than a centralized office (Hill, …
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Adoption of telecommuting : modeling the employer's and the employee's decision processes
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1995.
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Telecommuting in the developing world: a case of the day-labour market
… subjects such as teleactivities and teleworking/telecommuting, and advocate for prospects of working anywhere anytime. These studies have not received much research attention in the developing world. They have mainly been done in the developed world, and mostly on white-collar workers and …
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The effect of telecommuting on the temporal patterns of managers and employees
Rapidly evolving communications technologies, the expanding global scope of business, and changing societal expectations with regard to employment has expanded the prevalence of teleworking as an employment arrangement in recent years. The expansion of teleworking employment arrangements has …
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An Empirical Look at the Relationship between Personality Type and the Challenges of Telecommuting
The concept of telecommuting dates to the early 1970s when Dr. Jack Nilles, who coined the phrase telecommuting, realized that many of the commuters contributing to rush-hour traffic congestion simply went to an office, sat at a desk and used a phone to conduct their business. Since then, …
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Exploration of telecommuting and real estate demand ramifications : a comparision and contrast of various methodologies
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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Is the incidence of telecommuting as an alternative work arrangement increasing in the Federal public sector?
Telecommuting is an alternative work arrangement which allows individuals to work away from the office on a full time or part time basis whilst commuting electronically. In the case of the Federal Public Sector this is mainly associated with part time homebased work. As work cultures continue to …
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Effects of telecommuting on employee motivation and productivity during COVID-19 pandemic: A case of New Era Publication Corporation, Namibia
… of the major changes was the embracement of the telecommuting concept. The employment field is highly regulated by contracts and policies and introducing changes can affect production. This study investigated the effects of telecommuting on employee motivation and productivity. The study involved …
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When Being More Different and Less Visible Leads to Commitment and Justice for All
… Contrary to the hypotheses, high-intensity telecommuting was found to be more strongly related to affective commitment, especially when procedural justice was high. Non-significant results were found for telecommuting intensity as a moderator of the negative relationship between perceived …
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The influence of COVID-19 contextual factors on information security policy compliance
… this study aims to understand the impact that telecommuting has had on organisations' information security rules and procedures and how these rules and procedures have impacted the compliance behaviour of employees. This study was based on a conceptual model and used the quantitative research …
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Connected distribution : planning Boston for the future worker
… by the burgeoning sharing economy and increased telecommuting, cities must start to incorporate, and even prioritize, productive workplace geographies over large swaths of land. This thesis sets out to take-on that challenge, and re-imagines the role of the office building within the city by …
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The Effect of Microenvironmental Space on Communication and Job Satisfaction in an Office Environment: A Systematic Enquiry
… and colleagues dropping in for a chat, or telecommuting. The researcher designed a model depicting communication as the threading tool for various components of microenvironmental space leading to job satisfaction. Several areas for future research in microenvironmental space are briefly …
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Investigating the intention and behaviour of current telecommuters in Canada and the United States
… of work has lead to a phenomena called "Telecommuting" to surface across North America and Europe. This new way of working, which is about moving the work to the workers, promises to solve commuting problems in major cities and also promises to increase productivity and efficiency of …
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Interrelationships Between Urban Travel and Other Infrastructure
… that significantly improve forecasts of telecommuting prevalence, particularly during disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, it finds that residential electricity usage profiles in the Chicago region correlate with commuting characteristics, revealing spatially coherent …
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WorkHotel
… by the burgeoning sharing economy, increased telecommuting and pervasive, these new working territories extend to public and private institutions alike, challenging our present concepts of ownership and demanding a re-interpretation of the office typologically. This thesis sets out to take on …
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Commute Travel Changes and their Duration in Hurricane Sandy's Aftermath
… time to return to the normal working schedule, telecommuting time, and the time of commuting patterns alterations. Gasoline purchase restrictions extended commuting delays and the duration of alteration of normal commute patterns but decreased the duration of the change of working schedule and …
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Community and collaboration : new shared workplaces for evolving work practices
… serve the needs of modern workers. Although telecommuting from home offices and 'telework' centers appeared in the 1980s, it was the wireless Internetconnected laptop and cellular telephone that truly enabled work to be accomplished anywhere, from the daily train commute to the local coffee …
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