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Recently,people and organizations have come into a new restructuring process with information technologies. One of these applications is also the opportunity of peop- le to choose the job they want to do in anytime, in any place. Virtual organizations deve- loping in this process have challenged...
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The current study contributes to the already substantial scholarly literature on telecommuting by estimating a joint … model of three dimensions—option, choice and frequency of telecommuting. In doing so, we focus on workers who are not self … include the use of a general and flexible generalized hurdle count model to analyze the precise count of telecommuting days …
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Flexible work arrangements such as allowing employees to work at home are used in firms, especially since information and communication technologies have become so widespread. Using individual-level data from 10,884 German employees, this paper analyses the determinants of working at home as a...
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is the existence of a large group of people (57% of the sample) for whom telecommuting is a Preferred Impossible … people do not choose telecommuting due to the presence of active continuous constraints. For only 11% of the entire sample …, telecommuting is possible, preferred, and chosen. The potential impacts of self-selection bias are estimated, and sampling bias is …
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Telecommuting, or working part of the time from another location than the office, normally from home, has been tried by … telecommuting are forwarded by previous studies. This paper investigates the development of telecommuting in three organisations …, and elaborates on mechanisms behind the fact that the practice of telecommuting has not been as widespread as expected …
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Interest in telecommuting is growing among workers, employers, transportation planners, communities, the … telecommunications industry, and others. But actual levels of telecommuting appear to be increasing slowly, although there is little … reliable data on trends. The future of telecommuting depends on whether employers provide the opportunity to telecommute and …
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Telecommuting centers have been in existence for more than a decade in countries outside the United States. More … understand better those pioneering experiences with telecommuting centers, both in the U.S. and elsewhere. This report collects … and analyzes information on established telecommuting centers and related concepts for the purpose of providing input to …
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, telecommuting is gaining acceptance in the United States and elsewhere. Yet there is no consensus on what actually does and does not … constitute telecommuting. This paper first indicates why approaching such a consensus is important. It then discusses the … definition of telecommuting in two different contexts. In the first case, telecommuting is considered in the abstract, in the …
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The study of temporal patterns of telecommuting is essential in understanding the adoption of telecommuting and, hence …, the impacts of telecommuting on the demand for equipment and services as well as the demand for travel. This research … examines, in the context of center-based telecommuting, how often individuals telecommute, the duration of their telecommuting …
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Several travel indicators were compared between telecommuting (TC) days and non-telecommuting days for a sample of 72 … person-miles (58%) and 35 vehicle-miles (53%). When weighted by telecommuting frequency, average reductions of 11.9% in PMT … trips (and consequently, cold starts) on telecommuting days. …
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