Remote workers are typically knowledge workers who work from home using ICT to coordinate and collaborate with their colleagues, clients and managers. While remote working has many advocates, it also has critics. A frequent concern is that remote workers will experience social isolation. In this case study we focus on what tele-health nurses who work from home do to overcome this issue. We draw...

Information technology has a profound effect on individuals, organizations, and society. Whereas most of its impact is positive, there might be some negative side-effects. This paper argues that to a certain extent, society has developed in a way that resembles autism, which is concerned with the manner people react and communicate. In particular, excessive use of IT and computers might cause W...

This study investigates the effect of COVID-19 lockdowns and non-lockdown phases on managers employees in Czech Republic year 2020. The came through first wave spring 2020 with low case numbers, but became one countries highest incidences second autumn Europe. focused examining differences perceptions digital readiness company, working style, mental health variables personnel lockdown phases. D...

Always-on video provides rich awareness for co-workers separated by distance, yet it has the potential to threaten privacy as sensitive details may be broadcast to others. This threat increases for telecommuters who work at home and connect to office-based colleagues using video. One technique for balancing privacy and awareness is blur filtration, which blurs video to hide sensitive details wh...

Geographically distributed project teams and organizations are becoming more common. For example, in many organizations workers from multiple locations collaborate on projects. Telecommuting is becoming more common, yet these workers are also project team members. Open source software development is an extreme example of this movement, since there are typically no collocated developers at all. ...

Telecommuting, a work practice where tasks are conducted away from centraloffice, was introduced in mid-1970’s. While the telecommuting practices were steadilyrising during succeeding decades, they not brought to prominence till recently.The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns all around world put many companies andemployees position implement work-from-home (WFH) practices, most of theactors compl...

This chapter examines changes in telecommuting and the resulting activity-travel behavior during COVID-19 pandemic, with a particular focus on California. A geographical approach was taken to “zoom in” county level major regions California out” comparable states (New York, Texas, Florida). Nearly one-third of domestic workforce worked from home rate almost six times higher than pre-pandemic lev...

Knowledge workers frequently lack sufficient expertise to perform work effectively. This paper describes a recently developed expertise locator system based on automated key-phrase identification of experts from electronic mail (e-mail) messages. The paper provides an analysis of the key socio-ethical challenges involved in the implementation and use of the e-mail expertise locator system. Find...