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...

Telework is the engagement in work outside of a regular office setting by means of the use of information and communication technology (ICT). Findings reported in the literature are mixed with some studies having argued that telework provides workers the opportunity to better balance work and private roles. In contrast others have argued telework blurs the boundaries between work and private li...

Smooth communication through Face-to-face communication across hierarchy has been currently recognized as a critical method for organizational knowledge sharing and knowledge creation. However, these previous research findings are not applicable to telework environment which has much limited face-to-face communication compared with the traditional organization. Although knowledge creation resea...

Telework has inspired research in disciplines ranging from transportation and urban planning to ethics, law, sociology, and organizational studies. In our review of this literature, we seek answers to three questions: who participates in telework, why they do, and what happens when they do? Who teleworks remains elusive, but research suggests that male professionals and female clerical workers ...

Since the early 70’s there has been a proliferation of literature about telework. A significant portion of these books and articles focus on, promote, or at least list the benefits of this alternative work style. At the same time there are a number of studies indicating that the rate of adoption of telework is well below levels predicted by proponents. Noticeably lacking in the literature are e...

Telework has been the subject of study for more than a quarter century, yet its causes and consequences are poorly understood. A key reason for this shortcoming is that scholars define and use the concept in many different ways. This article presents a taxonomy of telework, distinguishing between three distinct forms: fixed-site telework, mobile telework, and flexiwork. It then offers a series ...

This paper presents critical limitations of existing telework literature, which views teleworkers as a homogeneous group and generalises research outcomes without limitations on applicability, thereby failing to consider the different circumstances of the individual teleworkers. This paper reports on the pilot study that examined telework in the business-to-consumer e-business application as pa...

Enabled by the development of information technologies, telecommuting and telework have been incorporated into organizations for around 30 years. However, there still exists resistance to this work arrangement, particularly from middle-level managers. Formal knowledge about how to manage telework is needed to keep the managers better informed. I conducted a qualitative exploratory study to inve...

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...

The working life is changing rapidly since the technical conditions to work anywhere and anytime were developed. New employment models like telework emerged. Telework is the key to a more flexible design of working time and places of work. But telework is not yet as widely spread as it seems to be. What are the barriers of an all-round implementation? In ongoing research projects we find out, t...