In Germany, multi-locational eWork continues to spread against a background of a growing need for more flexible forms of labour deployment. However, the potential of eWork to contribute to better work/life balance and to increasing workforce participation (by women and older people) is not fully...

The last years have seen a change in attitude towards new ways of working and their role inthe modernisation of organisations. Until a few years ago, balancing employees’ interestswith those of business has often been the spur for introducing eWork in German companies.The opportunity to...

The dissertation is about what are new work environments, why measure it, what to measure, the challenge, approach chosen, state of the art in research, a framework for benchmarking NWEs and next steps.

The paper uses the SIBIS database (which stems from population surveys undertaken in 2002/2003 in all current EU25 Member States1 plus the remaining candidate countries Bulgaria and Romania, as well as Switzerland and the USA) to explore the determinants of eWork uptake at the level of the...

In this paper, we will try to contribute to the establishment of a model of eWork diffusion. Firstly, the paper will review the latest research on telework, and how its findings compare with the hopes and beliefs of futurologists and policy-makers (section 2). Secondly we will suggest how the...

Multi-locational work, supported by information and communication technologies (ICTs), represents one key element of the current shift in the organisation of the labour process. Work which takes place at non-traditional work settings, and being enabled by increasingly mobile ICTs, is becoming...

Introducing and extending electronic Customer Relationship Management (e-CRM) practices in selected European enterprises had a considerable impact on work content and skill requirements but not on employment levels. While most companies stated that they created new jobs in the course of...

Measuring the spread of telework has been an objective of telework research since it has been appropriated by EU andnation state policy during the 1980s. While a great deal of statistics on the subject have become available from varioussources, a number of questions have not been sufficiently...