The advancement of information and communication technologies such as personal computers, the Internet and mobile phones has enabled people to work any time and anywhere. Teleworking, the practice of setting up home offices for employees with appropriate resources for computing and communication, is one example of this new flexibility. Teleworking brings new challenges as well as benefits, and ...

This article sets out to investigate how flexitime and teleworking can help women maintain their careers after childbirth. Despite the increased number of women in the labour market in the UK, many significantly reduce their working hours or leave the labour market altogether after childbirth. Based on border and boundary management theories, we expect flexitime and teleworking can help mothers...

This paper presents initial findings on a study that aims to examine how teleworking impacts on interactions and relationships in the workplace for knowledge professionals. It has been hypothesised that teleworking fundamentally changes how people interact (and subsequently form relationships) at work and, consequently, experiences of workers. Compared to traditional workers, teleworkers do not...

The development of teleworking relies heavily on telecommunications infrastructure. In particular, fiber optic networks for high speed networking and various wireless standards (IEEE 802.1x) lead to extensions of fixed networks. Moreover, Private Branch Exchanges (PBXs) with the introduction of IP technology are being transformed to universal access platforms for corporations and organizations....

This paper is seeking to present a procedure to assessthe potential preparation of the employees of an enterprise for suggestion of remote working and consider the possibility of teleworking system execution. Therefore, at first, the international teleworking literature was studied and effective indices were extracted and localized. At the next stage, a hierarchic model with the capability of m...

Teleworking is a specific type of work where the employee works outside their usual place work. A characteristic this activity reduction need to commute employer's workplace and performance during fixed working hours. The following prerequisites are important for real telework: computer. worker in different than employer or customer. Communication takes at distance via telecommunication network...

Teleworking is one of the new methods applied in most developed countries to increase organizational flexibility, reduce costs and improve performance. However, the implementation of teleworking is not so successful in Iran. Therfore, the objective of the present study is to identify the factors causing failure in implementation of teleworking. The study is carried out in the governmental a...