Dissertations / Theses: 'Telecommuting'

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Cunningham, Thomas W. "Telecommuting." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/26295.

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Rognes, Jon. "Telecommuting : organisational impact of home-based telecommuting." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics (EFI), 1999. http://www.hhs.se/efi/summary/509.htm.

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Neufeld, Derrick James. "Individual consequences of telecommuting." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq28510.pdf.

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Norin, Niklas. "The Telecommuting Software Developer." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Fysik och elektroteknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-150151.

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This thesis designs, and partially implements, an architecture for running an embedded Linux application on a regular PC, without access to the target device. This thesis shows how a standard Linux User space filesystem, in the right environment, can be used to emulate the most common User space GPIO interface in Linux, SysFS. Furthermore, this thesis sets up a template for how this architecture can be used to run both the embedded application and an application emulating the connected hardware.

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Escobar-Kenyon, Suzanne. "Telecommuting and public relations : a survey of telecommuting practices among public relations professionals." Scholarly Commons, 1997. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2321.

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Innovations in computer technologies have provided the ability to access information from all over the world by the stroke of a finger. These technologies have given birth to the growing practice of telecommuting. There is much research available on telecommuting. However, there is a lack of research on this phenomenon in the public relations sector. This study seeks to fill this void by investigating the telecommuting behaviors of public relations professionals and providing a foundation from which further studies can be built. Survey questionnaires were completed by 122 Public Relations Society of America members. The questionnaires contained measures regarding perceived relative advantages of telecommuting, demographic variables, and telecommuting behavior. There were many important findings from the study. Interestingly, telecommuting is in the late majority phase of the diffusion process. It is also gender related. Surprisingly, this study found more men are likely to telecommute than women. Certain variables were found to be associated with telecommuting. Specifically, selfemployed individuals and those with more years in PR were more likely to telecommute. Most of the PR professionals who reported telecommuting did so in an unstructured manner. The main reason reported for telecommuting was to complete their unfinished work from the office. The majority of PR professionals did view telecommuting as valuable. However, here were differences in the perceptions of relative advantages with full- or part-time telecommuting. The advantages of full-time telecommuting only appeared to be attractive to those individuals who presently telecommute. Over two-thirds of the respondents who did not telecommute were found to be interested in telecommuting on a part-time basis. And most PR professionals, whether telecommuter or not, believed telecommuting will become a standard practice in the future.

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Morrow, Lora E. "Telecommuting in the Federal Workforce." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2001. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA401570.

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Thesis (M.S. in Contract Management) Naval Postgraduate School, Dec. 2001.
Thesis advisor(s): Suchan, Jim; Lamm, David. "December 2001." Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-256). Also available in print.

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Asgari, Hamidreza. "On the Impacts of Telecommuting over Daily Activity/Travel Behavior: A Comprehensive Investigation through Different Telecommuting Patterns." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2182.

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The interest in telecommuting stems from the potential benefits in alleviating traffic congestion, decreasing vehicle miles traveled (VMT), and improving air quality by reducing the necessity for travel between home and the workplace. Despite the potential economic, environmental, and social benefits, telecommuting has not been widely adopted, and there is little consensus on the actual impacts of telecommuting. One of the major hurdles is lack of a sound instrument to quantify the impacts of telecommuting on individuals’ travel behavior. As a result, the telecommuting phenomenon has not received proper attention in most transportation planning and investment decisions, if not completely ignored. This dissertation addresses the knowledge gap in telecommuting studies by examining several factors. First, it proposes a comprehensive outline to reveal and represent the complexity in telecommuting patterns. There are various types of telecommuting engagement, with different impacts on travel outcomes. It is necessary to identify and distinguish between those people for whom telecommuting involves a substitution of work travel and those for whom telecommuting is an ancillary activity. Secondly, it enhances the current modeling framework by supplementing the choice/frequency approach with daily telework dimensions, since the traditional approach fails to recognize the randomness of telecommuting engagement in a daily context. A multi-stage modeling structure is developed, which incorporates choice, frequency, engagement, and commute, as the fundamental dimensions of telecommuting activity. One pioneering perspective of this methodology is that it identifies non-regular telecommuters, who represent a significant share of daily telecommuters. Lastly, advanced statistical modeling techniques are employed to measure the actual impacts of each telecommuting arrangement on travelers’ daily activity-travel behavior, focusing on time-use analysis and work trip departure times. This research provides a systematic and sound instrument that advances the understanding of the benefits and potentials of telecommuting and impacts on travel outcomes. It is expected to facilitate policy and decision makers with higher accuracy and contribute to the better design and analysis of transportation investment decisions.

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Wang, Jijie. "Controlling telework an exploratory investigation of portfolios of control applied to remote knowledge workers /." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-01092009-131242/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008.
Title from file title page. Daniel Robey, committee chair; Karlene C. Cousins, Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Michael Gallivan, committee members. Description based on contents viewed July 1, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-105).

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Yardley, James Gregory. "Teleports, sweatshops, and cocoons : an analysis of telecommuting." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30009.

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Telecommuting is a practice in which a person works at home with a computer terminal and communicates with their place of employment by telephone line or data link. Telecommuting is a relatively recent phenomenon, originating during the mid-1970's as a means for lowering energy consumption by reducing the need to commute between home and the workplace. Other factors promoting the adoption of telecommuting include rapid advances in computer and telecommunications technologies, and the shift in the economic structures of Western nations from being based primarily on extractive and manufacturing activities, to the provision of services, and knowledge-based activities in particular. There is considerable uncertainty about how many people telecommute. This is largely because of conflicting definitions of telecommuting, the lack of reliable or systematically collected data on the subject, and methodological difficulties in identifying telecommuters. Nevertheless, anecdotal evidence and empirical studies have identified two principal types of telecommuters: (1) managerial, technical, or professional employees who generally work at home on an intermittent or part-time basis, and (2) clerical employees who perform routine or clearly defined tasks, usually on a full-time basis. The effects of telecommuting tend to be unevely distributed, with professional or managerial workers generally receiving more benefits and being less vulnerable to exploitation than clerical workers. Benefits to employees may include lower commuting costs, more flexibility in lifestyle and work scheduling, and improvements in working conditions. Potential disadvantages to employees include isolation, career impairment, conflict between work and non-work roles, and exploitation by employers. Advantages for employers include increased productivity, less employee turnover, and lower costs. The primary disadvantage employers face is limitations in managerial style; this may be the primary impediment facing the increased adoption of telecommuting. Suggested benefits to society include lower commuting costs, less traffic congestion, less energy consumption, and less air pollution. Potential societal disadvantages include increased urban sprawl and distortions to land markets. Factors external to telecommuting that are influencing its adoption include cultural attitudes to the home as a workplace, the development of office automation technologies, reactions by organized labour, and the processes of innovational diffusion. The spatial impact of telecommuting is uncertain. Research on the impact of telecommunications on urbanization suggests an inherent tendency towards spatial decentralization, and there is considerable speculation in the literature that telecommuting may lead to increased residential dispersion. There is, however, little, if any, empirical evidence supporting the latter notion. Telecommuting may be useful as a public policy device to promote certain identified societal goals such as reductions in energy consumption and pollution. This would require a reassessment of current zoning practices which often restrict home-based employment for reasons of doubtful legitimacy. Any policy-based encouragement of telecommuting should be accompanied, however, by the development of employment statutes and enforcement mechanisms that protect telecommuters against potential abuses.
Applied Science, Faculty of
Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
Graduate

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Fireman, Steven Mark. "A model of telecommuting withdrawal : employee perceptions predicting the reduction or stopping of telework /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8735.

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Westin, Dawn M. "Controlling risk for the telecommuting workforce with an emphasis on ergonomics." Online version, 2000. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2000/2000westind.pdf.

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Reitan, Fredrik Aadne. "The Rebound Effect : A Simulation Model of Telecommuting." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for telematikk, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-25887.

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This thesis aims to highlight the relationship between telecommuting and the rebound effect with respect to greenhouse gas emissions. This was done by gathering and analyzing the latest research from various fields that could provide information about telecommuting and the rebound effect. By surveying these fields, an informative and well-documented framework for modeling telecommuting and the rebound effect was made possible. The simulation model simulated the adoption of telecommuting in Los Angeles over 30 years. The rebound effect of telecommuting was found to be 27.4%.

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Okoli, Nwakego Joy. "The slow adoption of telecommuting in South Africa." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2424.

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Thesis (MTech (Information Technology))--Cape Peninsula University, 2016.
Climate change imposes indisputable burdens on economic development by significantly causing damage to the environment. In the transportation sector, carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles are seen as top environmental pollutants around the world and in South Africa. Despite increasing environmental issues, many people, including business leaders, generally think of environmental issues as disconnected from their everyday business lives and behavioural patterns. The Republic of South Africa as a member of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) encourages any practices and processes that will control, reduce or prevent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. The adoption of telecommuting for travel reduction can impact positively on environmental sustainability by reducing the amount of commuter driving and thus reducing carbon emissions. Telecommuting is an arrangement where an employee works from home or out of office using telecommunication links (internet, email and/or telephone) to reduce commuting to and from the office, enhance productivity in the organisation, and reduce office space requirements. However, despite the well documented benefits of telecommuting, the uptake of telecommuting in South Africa is slow. This study falls under the Green Information Technology research field. The aim of the study is to identify the reasons behind the slow adoption of telecommuting in South African organisations. The study followed embedded multiple-case studies. Qualitative data were collected from nine companies using semi-structured interviews with 19 participants comprising of Information Technology (IT) and Human Resource (HR) managers, telecommuters and non-telecommuters. The companies were selected to be as diverse as possible in the operating sector and both purposive and snowball strategies were used.

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Brown, Judith May Octavia. "Telecommuting: The Affects and Effects on Non-Telecommuters." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26585.

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Telecommuting is a significant workplace innovation that allows an increasing portion of the work force to work from home or work at a location remote from the central workplace at least one-day a week. Previous studies (BÃ©langer, 1999; Pinsonneault & Boisvert, 2001; Potter, 2003) have outlined that the reasons for the growth of this phenomenon are found in its perceived benefits for both the telecommuter and their employer: improved productivity, organizational loyalty and belonging, job satisfaction, savings of office space, increased flexibility, improved employee morale and employee retention and attraction. Telecommuting literature has provided models and theories about telecommuting concentrating mainly on the telecommuterâ s experiences and perspective. However, the ramifications of this practice have a broad range of potential impacts not only on the telecommuter, but also other parties in the work unit. Despite the tremendous growth in telecommuting, relatively few empirical studies (Duxbury & Neufield, 1999; Golden, 2007; Watson-Fritz, Narasimhan, and Rhee, 1998) have directly examined the creeping affect and effect of the telecommuting challenges on others in the work unit. Few studies (Bailey & Kurland, 2002; Cooper & Kurland, 2002; Golden, 2007; McCloskey & Igbaria, 2003) have investigated it from the non-telecommutersâ perspective and how it affects their work outcomes and their attitudes More importantly, no earlier studies were found that had ever investigated the effects of the telecommuting arrangement on the non-telecommuter from the organizational justice perspective, and how this affects the non-telecommuterâ s job satisfaction. This study empirically examined the affects and effects of telecommuting on non-telecommuters, and within that context, examined the extent to which organizational justice perspectives affected job satisfaction. Major findings of the study revealed that : (a) the accessibility of the telecommuter is key, even if they are working offsite, (b) job type/position plays an important role in the selection process or in some non-telecommutersâ decision to opt out of telecommuting, (c) there was lack of awareness of a formal telecommuting policy or understanding of how the policy was applied, (d) selection procedures can be biased and unfair, and (e) some non-telecommuters experienced envy and jealousy, frustration, resentment, anxiety, unfairness and anger towards telecommuting colleagues. The results of the study also revealed that interpersonal/interactional, and distributive justice both explained the statistically significant variance in non-telecommutersâ job satisfaction. However, interpersonal/interactional justice (which focuses on the quality of interpersonal treatment individuals receive) explained a stronger statistically significant variance in the job satisfaction of non-telecommuters.
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Abdullah, Nabil, Linnéa Rossander, and Damilola Samuel. "Telecommuting and Motivation during the COVID-19 pandemic." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-54441.

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Date: 2021-06-03 Level: Bachelor thesis in Business Administration, 15cr Institution: School of Business, Society and Engineering, Mälardalen University Authors: Nabil Abdullah Linnéa Rossander Damilola Samuel (98/09/02) (98/08/14) (98/01/10) Title: Telecommuting and Motivation during the pandemic Tutor: Ali FarashahKeywords: Telecommuting, motivation, COVID-19, Self-Determination Theory, work-life balance. Research questions: 1. To what extent has the rapid increase in telecommuting due to the COVID-19 pandemic affected the motivation of employees and managers? 2. What aspects affect employee motivation in a telecommuting environment? Purpose: The research aims to understand how motivation amongst employees and managers has been affected while telecommuting, compared to when they previously worked at the office before the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.' Method: The research has a deductive approach, building on existing theories and studies as a premise for secondary data. The authors utilize primary data through a quantitative survey, collected from employees and managers across several industries. Conclusion: The study found that the overall motivation in the telecommuting context was equally neutral and positively affected. Competence was the predominant predictor variable for employee motivation.

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Arabikhan, Farzad. "Telecommuting choice modelling using fuzzy rule based networks." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2017. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/telecommuting-choice-modelling-using-fuzzy-rule-based-networks(b088b779-8daa-441e-b0a0-7c9641e1f08b).html.

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Telecommuting as an approach in transportation demand management has made the news a lot in recent years. Technology has enabled this growing trend, and more and more companies and families are taking advantages of it. Adopting telecommuting is a multidimensional decision making process that involves different aspects of life such as family, work and many more. Modelling telecommuting enables employers and employees to understand the main factors that influence on decision making about adopting telecommuting. The role of subjective knowledge and linguistic variables cannot be ignored in human decision making process and Fuzzy Logic has proved to be a powerful tool for knowledge-based decision-making systems. Telecommuting as a multifaceted decision involves more on subjective knowledge rather that accurate numbers. Thus, fuzzy logic is applied for modelling telecommuting. Moreover, the complex internal decision making process for adopting telecommuting reveals the role of various factors at different levels that influence on the outcome of the decision. Therefore, Fuzzy Rule Based Network, as a novel approach in modelling complex systems, is utilised. Using Fuzzy Network as a transparent approach, enables to understand the role of external inputs, intermediate variables and their interaction in modelling telecommuting. According to choice theory and in order to find the maximum utilities of alternatives in telecommuting, the Fuzzy Network is tuned and optimised in terms of rules and membership function using Genetic Algorithm and Fuzzy c-mean clustering method. In addition, to reduce the size of Fuzzy Network, an input and branch selection method is proposed. Linguistic composition of the nodes in Fuzzy Network is also performed by an efficient method to reduce computational costs. Results highlight the most important external and intermediate variables as well as decision rules in describing the suitability of telecommuting. Also, a Multinomial Logit model, as benchmark model, is developed to compare models performances which shows the superiority of the proposed method in transparency, efficiency and interpretability criteria. The main contributions of this research can be highlighted in modelling the suitability of telecommuting using Fuzzy Rule Based Network, developing fuzzy utility model using Fuzzy Rule Based Network, tuning Fuzzy Rule Based Network using Genetic Algorithm, input and branch selection for Fuzzy Rule Based Network and finally proposing an efficient method for linguistic composition of Rule Based Network.

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Bane, Chuck Howard. "The management issues of implementing telecommuting : a case study /." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1993. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA275267.

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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management) Naval Postgraduate School, September 1993.
Thesis advisor(s): Hocevar, Susan P. ; Haga, William J. "September 1993." Bibliography: p. 80-84. Also available online.

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Bane, Chuck Howard Jr. "The management issues of implementing telecommuting: a case study." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/39908.

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This thesis is a case study of the implementation of telecommuting by CalComp at the Telecommuting Workcenter of Riverside County and is a real life example of the management issues that surround telecommuting. The issues brought forth in this study will enable those responsible for implementing a telecommuting program to better understand the impact of this change on their organization and how a telecommuting center may be used in their program. Using this study as background, the military use of telecommuting for U.S. Navy detailers will be developed. Developing a peace time telecommuting program could help train Navy personnel to function as a remote staff member for a Battle Group or Joint Commander. A conceptual application of telecommuting for the Department of the Navy (DON) could be to allow selected officer and enlisted detailers to telecommute up to three days a week. This insight, properly used, will help program managers avoid problems that other programs have experienced during their transition to telecommuting. This insight, properly used, will help the program managers avoid problems other programs have had during the transition to telecommuting. Recommendations for further research and use of telecommuting for the Department of the Navy are provided.

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Mazzi, Angela Louise 1970. "Redefining the place of work: Telecommuting and the home." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292053.

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With automation, every aspect of office work becomes streamlined, on-line, and universally accessible. This eliminates the need for a hierarchical work structure, and for spatially and temporally bounded offices. When traditional cultural constructs are abandoned through telecommunication and electronic technologies, both home and work need to be redefined. Because the workplace is being transplanted into the home, workers must establish boundaries between these two worlds to substitute for the loss of office social interaction and to balance professional and personal life. Social and architectural theories, statistics and case studies, have alternately made both dire and optimistic predictions about the repercussions of telecommuting. This thesis tests these predictions through case studies which examine how actual people are coping with this new way of working and living. It uses the resulting information to focus on the ways that home design is affected by these phenomena.

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Lo, Yu-ching. "Can telecommunications replace journey to work in Hong Kong?" Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38828832.

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Rogers, Watson Frank. "A Theoretical Synthesis of Telecommuting and Incidence of Family Violence." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36149.

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The rapid advancement of computer and telecommunications technology has made working in the home a practicality. Dubbed ?telecommuting,? this manner of work describes a circumstance where the employee, through the use of some form of telecommunications device (most often a computer with some form of modem), works at a location other than a centralized office (Hill, Hawkings & Miller, 1996). In many cases, the location of work is the home. Current estimates place the number of telecommuters in the United States at 19.6 million and growing (Swoboda & Grimsley, 2000). However, while emphasis has been placed on the positive consequences of telework, thus far little attention has been given to the latent negative consequences of telecommuting. The focus of this work is to develop a theoretical paradigm that explains how telecommuting may potentially contribute to abuse in home. The types of abuse targeted by the theoretical paradigm are: child, spouse, and elder abuse. In particular this model helps identify those telecommuters who are at greatest risk for the perpetration of abuse. This model is informed by a stress paradigm of abuse and identifies five variables that are considered to be crucial in affecting violent outcomes among telecommuters: 1.) socioeconomic status / occupational status; 2.) gender; 3.) crowding; 4.) social isolation; and, 5.) boundary control. How these variables interact within the telecommuting paradigm is described. Ultimately this work serves as a platform from which future empirical research may be conducted.
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Klayton, Margaret A. "The impact of telecommuting on the supervisory performance appraisal process." VCU Scholars Compass, 1994. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3992.

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The problem studied was whether supervisors evaluated telecommuters differently than their on-site co-workers and, if they did, was this difference explainable by the models on performance ratings by Landy and Farr (1980, 1983, 1989)? For this study, telecommuting referred to employees who are full-time employees, but work off-site using electronic communication devices and telecommuted at least one day per week. Twenty organizations nation-wide were surveyed. Hypotheses stated that there was no difference in supervisory performance appraisal criteria, supervisory performance ratings whether the supervisor selected employees to telecommute or the supervisor telecommuted or not, and the frequency between formal performance appraisals for telecommuters and non-telecommuters. Performance appraisal criteria and other questions concerning the evaluation process were analyzed. The data supported the first hypothesis of no difference in performance appraisal criteria used to evaluate telecommuters and non-telecommuters. The second hypothesis was not supported by the data. The three groups disagreed that telecommuters were generally better performers than their on-site co-workers. Supervisors and telecommuters disagreed on their perceptions of telecommuters as rated as better employees. It was assumed in the third hypothesis that supervisors who themselves telecommuted would not rate telecommuters as better employees than their co-workers. Due to the small sample size, the results were inconclusive. In the fourth hypothesis, it was assumed that supervisors who had the final say about who would be eligible to telecommute would not perceive telecommuters as better employees. Based on the analysis, the hypothesis could not be supported or refuted due to the small sample size. Finally, the fifth hypothesis relied on measuring the number of months between formal reviews to determine if telecommuters were evaluated more frequently than their onsi te co-workers. The analysis verified that there was no difference between the two groups. Because no prior research has been conducted about differences in evaluating telecommuting and nontelecommuting employees, there is no data available for comparison purposes to discover any trends or changes. Future research on this subject should include a review of actual performance appraisal records to determine if differences in ratings for telecommuters and nontelecommuters exists.

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Meyers, Neville Thomas. "Personal control beliefs and sustainable telecommuting : an exploration of relationships." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999.

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Fritz, Mary Beth Watson. "Organizational adoption of remote work arrangements : a field study and research framework." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/29579.

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Choy, Wai-tim Felix. "Information technology in pollution prevention." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42576015.

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Clark, Leigh Anne. "Relationships between the Big Five personality dimensions and attitudes toward telecommuting /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1362528911&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Bernardino, Adriana T. (Adriana Teixera). "Adoption of telecommuting : modeling the employer's and the employee's decision processes." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11390.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179-182).
by Adriana Teixeira Bernardino.
Ph.D.

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McVey, Joseph J. "A Study of the Attitudes of Management and Employees Toward Telecommuting." NSUWorks, 1999. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/720.

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Telecommuting has been lauded as increasing productivity, reducing companies' costs, improving employee retention and recruitment, improving employee morale and various other benefits. Telecommuting has also been lamented about management's loss of control, increased management workload and the difficulty of implementation. After weighing both pros and cons, telecommuting seemingly has more benefits than drawbacks. Yet, it is curious that organizations are slow to adopt it. This study investigated the attitudes of 177 employees and 119 managers toward telecommuting. All of the respondents were employed in the information technology field, had access to, and worked with personal computers in their job. Questionnaires, based on the Duxbury et al. (1987) study, were sent to 200 managers and 400 employees and 296 were returned for a return rate of 49%. This study investigated four areas of telecommuting - the benefits of telecommuting, the drawbacks of telecommuting specific to management and control, the drawbacks of telecommuting career-related, and the drawbacks of telecommuting related to one's personal life. The results indicate that today's employees and managers differ on their perception of the management and control of telecommuters. Specifically, they differ on the variables of a change to organizational management style, the trust and the difficultly of managing telecommuters. This finding is in sharp contrast to the Duxbury et al. (1987) study. The results also indicate that employees and managers have a similar perception toward the benefits of telecommuting. This finding is also in sharp contrast to the Duxbury et al. (1987) study, which found differences in the benefit variables of improved quality of work life, lower job-related stress and increased productivity. Lastly, the results indicate that employees and managers remain concerned about career related aspects of telecommuting and are less concerned about the impact on one's family life. These finding are consistent with the Duxbury et al. (1987) study. The results of this study provide a comparison between employees working in the information technology field and employees working in general industry of a decade ago and provide a framework for future studies.

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Rojas, Mario Benito IV. "The Impacts of Telecommuting on The Time-Space Distribution of Daily Activities." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2997.

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As major cities have aged, they have also met or exceeded their transportation infrastructure’s capacity. This has led to many negative impacts such as increased greenhouse gas emissions, delay, travel time, congestion, as well as decreased energy independence, standard of living for the cities’ inhabitants and the world as a whole. As a result, these cities will undoubtedly suffer and will struggle to meet the needs of their citizens. It is becoming more evident, and relevant, that the solution to today’s and tomorrow’s transportation problems will be overcome through the use of policy as well as innovative strategies, one of which may be telecommuting. Due to this, this thesis investigates the impacts of telecommuting on the time-space distribution of daily activities as a potential transportation demand strategy. Herein, the thesis explores topics related to telecommuting, time-space constrains, time-space prisms, and the impact of telecommuting on time-space prisms. In order to do so, the author examines the applicability of stochastic frontier analyses to estimate the time-space prism’s vertices for various telecommuting groups.

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Rowello, Gertrude Bruner 1973. "The effect of telecommuting on the temporal patterns of managers and employees." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32710.

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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2002.
"June 2002."
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 55).
Rapidly evolving communications technologies, the expanding global scope of business, and changing societal expectations with regard to employment has expanded the prevalence of teleworking as an employment arrangement in recent years. The expansion of teleworking employment arrangements has significant implications on organizations, management, and the teleworkers themselves. Of particular interest are how teleworking has changed temporal patterns associated with work and how these changes have affected interactions between teleworkers and those with whom they work. This thesis explores these issues through interviews with both teleworkers themselves and their colleagues and managers. The areas of inquiry are organized into three primary categories: Impacts on Timing Aspects of Work, Impacts on Temporal Aspects of Professional Interactions, and Impacts on Temporal Patterns of Individuals and Work Groups.
by Gertrude Bruner Rowello.
M.B.A.

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Chepken, Christopher. "Telecommuting in the developing world: a case of the day-labour market." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6384.

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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in general, and mobile phones in particular, have demonstrated positive outcomes in the various social transformation and human development dimensions. As a result, many researchers have focused on ICTs innovations targeting the poor. Among the poor are the low-skilled day-labourers who belong to the Day-labour Market (DLM), which is also made up of employers, job-brokers and intermediary organisations. The DLMs’ main activities involve a great deal of travelling in search of jobs by workers and a search for workers by employers. These travels place heavy economic pressure on the day-labourers, hence reducing their net earnings while they struggle with extreme poverty. The first objective of our study was to find out how and which ICT interventions can be used to alleviate the challenges faced by the DLM stakeholders. The nature of our problem resembled studies that use ICTs to reduce travel distance. Such studies fall under subjects such as teleactivities and teleworking/telecommuting, and advocate for prospects of working anywhere anytime. These studies have not received much research attention in the developing world. They have mainly been done in the developed world, and mostly on white-collar workers and organisations. This brought about our second objective: to find out whether the ICT interventions for the DLM could be studied under teleworking/telecommuting and whether the telecommuting benefits can be realised for the blue-collar workers.

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Lines, Rodney John. "Telecommuting, is it part of the future for the Upland Police Department?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/717.

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Mirchandani, Kiran. "Living in the office : professional telework and its critical reflection of the public-private dichotomy." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40199.

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The primary concern of this thesis is to understand why the "public-private dichotomy" has such resilience in contemporary Western society. Feminist reflection on the dichotomy reveals that at it serves the patriarchal purposes of misrepresenting, masking and devaluing women's lives. Teleworkers are individuals who work at home; they often opt for this work arrangement because they want to better integrate their public (or work) and private (or nonwork) spheres. Ironically, however, teleworkers reify the dichotomy between public and private in their daily lives. Through in-depth qualitative interviews with female and male teleworkers, I explore the mechanisms which reinforce this. These mechanisms include first, the sexual division of labour in the home and second, the gendered notion of "professionalism." Comparing female and male teleworkers I show how workers at home are physically removed from the office environment but work in a way that largely reproduces the "gendered professionalism" inherent in the organizational culture of this environment. Perceiving the opportunity to telework as a privilege, they have to legitimate this work arrangement by continuing to make sharp distinctions between public "work" and private "nonwork" which in turn reinforces the sexual division of labour in the home. These mechanisms keep the public-private dichotomy in place. I argue, however, that teleworkers interpret the dichotomy in a critical manner; through a "critique from within" they challenge the dichotomy. This challenge originates in their experiences that the best work (which they often call "real work") is carried out in the private sphere of the home. In fact, the office is identified as inappropriate for "real work" precisely because it is public. The dichotomy between public/work and private/nonwork begins to be prized open. I argue that the long term consequences of this critique will depend upon the guided entrenchment of telework within organizations.

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Gomes, Cristina Caramelo. "A conceptual model to introduce telework in Lisbon." Thesis, University of Salford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365972.

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Skåmedal, Jo. "Telecommuting's implications on travel and travel patterns /." Linköping : Univ, 2004. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2004/tek869s.pdf.

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Shiga, Alfred Juro Mustey. "Exploration of telecommuting and real estate demand ramifications : a comparision and contrast of various methodologies." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70284.

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Senbel, Maged. "Working at home and sustainable living : architecture and planning implications." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23205.

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The goal of this thesis is to determine the correlation between the practice of working at home and the theoretical needs of sustainable living. The author presents a brief synopsis of the present theories of sustainability which he then uses as an evaluative backdrop for the study. Urban transport, architectural design and quality of life issues are addressed. The author conducted an extensive literature review, several case studies and a survey. Conclusions drawn from these studies were used to attempt to envision sustainable home working communities.
It was found that sustainability was directly related to whether the home worker telecommutes or operates a home-based business. Home-based business owners continue to be heavily reliant on automobile transportation, while telecommuters make fewer overall trips and travel shorter distances than conventional commuters. Although neither work type demands significant changes to the infrastructure of the typical residence, home-based businesses require more space and more attention to design. Telecommuting has potential adverse side effects of personal isolation and physical strain. To ensure the sustainability of working at home, the practice must be adopted as an integral part of a larger transformation on the scale of the local community.

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Tam, Choi-yuk. "Teleworking and work efficiency in Hong Kong : a case study approach /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42575989.

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Wu, Wan-yin Winnie. "Transport planning in the information and telecommunication age : the transportation implications of telecommuting of university students and teaching staff in Hong Kong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42576623.

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Daly, Colleen M. "Does changing work organization through telecommuting affect individual health? : a focus on stress and health behaviors /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5406.

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Welchans, Thomas Daniel. "The effects of telecommuting and communication media on perceived value congruence, organizational support and job satisfaction." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1240662452.

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Choo, Sangho. "Aggregate relationships between telecommunications and travel : structural equation modeling of time series data /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2004. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Thesis (Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering)--University of California, Davis, 2004.
Cover title. Computer-produced typeface. Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-161). Also available via the World Wide Web. (Restricted to UC campuses)

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Diamond, Christine. "The impact of telework on work-family balance in Australia /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17323.pdf.

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Flack, Mary Ellen. "Working the family in : a case study of the determinants of employees' access to and use of alternative work arrangements, and their home-to-work spillover /." Full text available online (restricted access), 1999. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/flack.pdf.

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Choy, Wai-tim Felix, and 蔡偉添. "Information technology in pollution prevention." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42576015.

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De, La Cruz Yonguri Smith Gregory, Yataco Nicole Diaz, Carrasco Dayanna Nicol Paredes, Mendoza Jhara Gilary Villegas, and Pinedo Camila Ingrid Zamorano. "Estudio Bibliométrico de Artículos Científicos sobre el Teletrabajo en personal de empresas recogidos de la base de datos Redalyc.org en el periodo de publicación 2005-2020." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/652818.

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El objetivo del estudio fue realizar un análisis bibliométrico de las publicaciones científicas de la base de datos Redalyc.org, para establecer información actual sobre los artículos científicos del teletrabajo en colaboradores de empresas. Primero, se realizó una búsqueda de la variable teletrabajo en la base de datos Redalyc.org, encontrándose un total de 9 artículos, de los cuales 1 artículo fue relacionado al teletrabajo en colaboradores de una empresa, el cual conforma la muestra de estudio. Seguidamente, se realizaron los análisis de datos y metodología utilizadas, y se desarrolló un análisis de la información obtenida. En los resultados resalta la poca cantidad de estudios cuantitativos, el cien por ciento de trabajos contienen resumen, abstract, palabras claves, introducción, objetivos e hipótesis. Se llega a la conclusión de que la bibliometría es una herramienta efectiva y fácil de utilizar para la medición del ejercicio de un investigador, este hecho fomenta que sea tangible la información de estudios previos, esto permite contribuir con información actual al panorama organizacional en el Perú.
The objective of the study was to carry out a bibliometric analysis of the scientific publications of the Redalyc.org database, to establish current information on the scientific articles on telework in company collaborators. First, a search for the telework variable was performed in the Redalyc.org database, finding a total of 9 articles, of which 1 article related to telework in collaborators of a company, which makes up the study sample. Subsequently, the data analysis and methodology used were performed, and an analysis of the information obtained was carried out. The results highlight the small number of quantitative studies, one hundred percent of works contain abstract, abstract, keywords, introduction, objectives and hypotheses. It is concluded that bibliometrics is an effective and easy-to-use tool for measuring the exercise of a researcher, this fact encourages the information from previous studies to be tangible, this allows contributing current information to the organizational landscape in Peru.
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Kesl, Vladimír. "Vybrané možnosti práce z domova a mimo stálé pracoviště." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2007. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-1312.

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Práce se zabývá možnostmi a způsoby, jakými lze v dnešní době pracovat z domova. Definuje a osvětluje jednotlivé pojmy, které s touto problematikou úzce souvisí, protože je tato oblast zatím v literatuře jen velmi nejednoznačně popsána. Základním cílem této práce je pokus vymezit práci z domova a mimo stálé pracoviště. Druhým cílem je ukázat vzory takovéto práce a upozornit na její pozitiva a negativa. Dalším cílem je ukázat jednotlivé možnosti, kterými lze tento model práce či podnikání realizovat. Po úvodní kapitole, která definuje základní pojmy, následuje druhá část práce, která řeší možné postupy při realizaci práce z domova. Třetí část práce je zároveň nejobsáhlejší a je věnována zkušenostem a konkrétním příkladům nabídek na práci z domu.

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Mikell, Ted. "An Analysis of Successful and Unsuccessful Implementation of Telecommuting by an Organization Through Identification of Critical Success Factors." NSUWorks, 1998. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/725.

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The purpose of this dissertation was 10 identify the primary factor or factors which influence implementation or non-implementation of telecommuting and the continuation or discontinuation of telecommuting. These factors could be used to develop guidelines to increase success for an organization implementing telecommuting. The literature review indicated that an organization is less likely to successfully implement a telecommuting program if the organization or employee cannot deal with the social issues of telecommuting. The hypothesis is that the analysis and surveys would demonstrate that a successful telecommuting program was based more often on social factors rather than on technical or cost/benefit factors. The telecommuting social factors included such items as; isolation by the employee, lack of or perceived lack of promotions and opportunity, or realization by the telecommuter that they must still employ daycare. The methodologies for research were possible and were completed in a time frame of one year. This included the construction of a questionnaire, identifying the subjects through the use of appropriate sampling techniques that have the required information for telecommuting success factors and are willing to release the information or participate in the questionnaire. The study was casual-comparative that determined the factors of success. The analysis of the data in evolved descriptive and inferential statistics.

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Pereira, Kenneth N. "Loyalty of online faculty: A work design perspective of the impact of a telecommuting work environment on employee loyalty." Scholar Commons, 2009. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2138.

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ABSTRACT This study empirically evaluates the theoretical impact of a telecommuting or online work environment on employee loyalty. While the concept of employee loyalty has been extensively researched, the concept of the impact of the work environment on employee loyalty is fairly new. Specifically, this study operationally defines the work environment characteristics that contribute to employee loyalty and examines the impact of the online or telecommuting work environment on employee loyalty. A survey instrument is utilized to collect perceptual data about the psychological components of the work environment and their impact on employee loyalty from the employee's perspective. Multiple linear regression analysis is used to analyze the data from one hundred and three respondents to determine correlation between the work environment characteristics and employee loyalty. Additional statistics utilized in the analysis of the data include: factor analysis, t-test, K-S test, and Cronbach's Alpha. While the study's findings confirm that the three work environment factors (job satisfaction, social interaction, and trust) contribute to employee loyalty as represented by the surrogate, intent to turnover, the dynamics underlying the perceptions of telecommuting and traditional collocated employees is complex. Telecommuting employees, as hypothesized, demonstrate higher levels of intention to turnover, the key construct in the study, than do traditional onsite employees. Similarly, job satisfaction is much lower for telecommuters. No statistically significant differences were found in trust or social interaction. When exploring casual impacts of satisfaction, social interaction and trust on intention to turnover, very different dynamics emerged between the telecommuting and traditional. In particular, job satisfaction, while very important to the traditional workers, was insignificant to intention to turnover to telecommuter employees. In addition, telecommuters apparently had derived alternative mechanisms to allow for social interactions, other than face-to-face ones. Trust, in both groups, is an overriding factor in ameliorating intention to turnover. This research adds to current perspectives on the effects of the work environment on employee loyalty. This research will enhance insights into this increasingly prevalent work environment, and organization researchers and managers will be able to use these results to enhance understanding of the impact on work environment. These contributions may help to decrease turnover and enhance the satisfaction derived in telecommuting work environments. The study ends with a discussion of limitations and suggestions for future research.

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Fay, Martha Jane. "Informal communication practices between peers in the remote work context." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1167786840.

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