Teletrabalho (Telework)

Telework Arrangements Demand in Finland

For many years the information society has been a target for speculation, and today the United States (Information highways), European Union, and national governments, along with advanced companies, are taking steps towards systematic policy changes and enlarged applications for information technology. One part of these activities lies in the area of workplace reform, where telework is going to...

Telework: Working Beyond Organizatinoal Boundaries

Continuously Connected Environment for Collaborative Telework

This paper describes our current study in the development of collaborative design environment which considers ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and architectural space. Our study group has been developing a computerized prototype environment for collaboration, which attempts to support synchronous design collaboration in a continuously connected project-room at distributing sites. ...

An Adoption Model of Telework for Organizations

Despite the variety of potential benefits to society, organizations, and individuals, telework growth has been moderate. We posit that the materialization of telework potential is viable when management recognizes its innovative value and accordingly changes the implementation paradigm from selection to adaptation and from ad hoc based temporary solution of an individual problem to the strategi...

A M initrack on Needs-Driven Telework

For more than two decades, various forms of telework have been studied and implemented around the world. However, the overwhelming majority of previous telework projects have been technology-driven and/or in small-scale implementation. People have expected that advanced information technologies would make telework feasible and teleworkers more efficient than traditional office workers. They hav...