Today's telecommuting workforce encompasses all categories of workers including managers, professionals and other knowledge workers. While organizations have the choice of mandating telecommuting or offering it as an option, individuals also have the choice of participating or not when telecommuting is optional. This research investigated whether individual factors, such as age, skills, identi®...

In this paper the use of telecommuting by a large, Austrahan based organization is discussed l3fi employees and twelve managers were involved. These participants completed questionnaires evaluating the method of telecommutingfrom both teiecommuters’ and their managers’ perspectives. The results indicated that since the introduction of tekcommuting: (I) telecommuters’ productivity had increased,...

The research aims to identify the mechanisms of Telecommuting at Ministry Youth and Sports in Arab Republic Egypt for its implementation during Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by specifying obligations remote work level each (senior management, General Administration Human Resources, Information Systems, employees Sports) evaluate performance period Corona pandemic. Descriptive survey approach ...

Innovation literature has long advocated that an innovation may be compatible or incompatible with an organization’s existing systems or resources (Rogers 1983). Compatibility of an innovation has traditionally meant that the innovation is compatible with the existing values, skills, and work practices of potential adopters. However, Tornatzky and Klein (1982) criticized this multi-faceted defi...

The literature on the impact of telecommuting on work-family conflict has been equivocal, asserting that telecommuting enhances work-life balance and reduces conflict, or countering that it increases conflict as more time and emotional energy are allocated to family. Surveying 454 professional-level employees who split their work time between an office and home, the authors examined how extensi...

The long-term trend toward more work from home due to digitization has found a strong new driver, the Covid-19 pandemic. profound change in urban mobility patterns supports often-held view that reducing number of commuting trips can lower carbon emissions. We investigate this optimistic long-run perspective monocentric model with household-level vehicle choice based on fuel efficiency. In mediu...

Despite initial evidence on employees’ motives for telecommuting, studies so far never investigated if and how distinct telecommuting might co-occur. In the current study (N wave 1 = 1297 employees; N 2 564 employees), we use Latent Class Analysis identify three classes reflecting specific combinations of motives: job requirement class (telecommuting because one has to), efficiency to cope with...