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Provides links to material associated with teleworking and telecommuting from different parts of the world broken down by geographical area. Also includes a section on Virtual Organizations Telework Provides links to several papers that deal with various ethical issues associated with teleworking Telework in the UK: Who's doing it? This article examines recently published official figures from the UK, and uncovers the underlying stories. What's happening to work? List of articles and papers on telework maintained by the journalist Andrew Bibby
Home Based Work
- Love and the Teleworker "Working from home is a great challenge to us. If we are to enrich our lives by adopting this increasingly popular way of working, if we want to integrate our work and home lives, those aspects of behaviour which harmlessly enriched our office working lives may not seem so harmless when brought into the domestic arena." Women and the Knowledge-Based Economy and Society This paper defines what is meant by the Knowledge-Based Economy and Society (KBES), particularly as it relates to women. It then explores the possibilities, and the dangers, associated with the KBES for women, as entrepreneurs, as self-employed and other non-standard workers, and as home based workers. Teleworking: conceptual and implementation problems Tele-cooperation occurs when groups of spatially-distant people interconnect on a work related common task, within a specific time frame, to share ideas, information, exchange documents, co-author documents etc. and are supported in their workgroup activities by computer-supported cooperative work tools. The management of such a spatially distributed work-force within a virtual office environment poses unique managerial and organizational challenges. Health and safety for home-based worker Whilst teleworking can offer considerable benefits to both companies and the individuals involved, a successful homeworking policy does have to get the details right, and health and safety is certainly one of the major items which should be on the agenda.
Telecommuting
- Extreme Telecommuting Jack in, wire up, drop out! The internet is all about freedom -- freedom from soft-walled cubicles, freedom from bad coffee, freedom from rules that just don't apply anymore. Why do you need to be in a corporate business park when there's a whole wide, wired world out there? The new workplace A paper on the future of work (work anywhere, anytime) and how some companies are making it happen. "O'Neill's own favorite hangout is the kitchen, where he and his staff nuke take-out food, huddle, and talk work. " Telework and people with disabilities "See the Ability not the Disability". An opportunity to work with people who have disabilities that may inhibit their participation in conventional work and social activities but whose use of the Internet is empowering them to participate in and shape the development of the Information Society and the emerging Global Networked Economy, by the European Telework Online. The Economics of Teleworking
"With the very large investments being made and with continuous advances in the power and user friendliness of equipment, we are all being forced to accept change. But why are these changes seen by Government as "a good thing" for society? The vision can be illustrated as follows. "
