Telework in the 21st Century

An Evolutionary Perspective

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2019
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78990-374-4 (ISBN)

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New information and communications technologies have revolutionized daily life and work in the 21st century. Breaking the traditional intellectual conception that telework is performed only in the home, this book surveys the full breadth of working environments, as technology allows employees increased working mobility.

New information and communications technologies have revolutionized daily life and work in the 21st century. This insightful book demonstrates how telework has evolved in the last four decades, as technological developments have improved our capacity to work remotely.

Based on a new conceptual framework, this book explores the global variations in telework, examining the effects on working conditions and individual and organizational performance. Breaking the traditional intellectual conception that telework is performed only in the home, this book surveys the full breadth of working environments, as technology allows employees increased working mobility. Contributors expose a profound ambiguity surrounding the effects of 21st-century telework, revealing that its advantages and disadvantages may simply be two sides of the same coin.

This timely book is crucial reading for researchers of labour and employment interested in the evolution of contemporary telework and the influence of modern technologies in the workplace. Policy-makers will also benefit from this book's concrete policy recommendations to improve the practice of telework.

Contributors include: S. Boiarov, P. D'Cruz, A. Dal Colletto, L. Gschwind, T. Harnish, K. Lister, A. Mello, J.C. Messenger, E. Noronha, A. Sato, O. Vargas

Edited by Jon C. Messenger, Senior Research Officer, International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland

Contents:

Introduction: Telework in the 21st century – an evolutionary
perspective 1
Jon C. Messenger

PART I ADVANCED ECONOMIES
1. Telework and its effects in Europe 36
Lutz Gschwind and Oscar Vargas
2. Telework and its effects in Japan 76
Akio Sato
3. Telework and its effects in the United States 128
Kate Lister and Tom Harnish

PART II EMERGING ECONOMIES
4. Telework and its effects in Argentina 172
Sonia Boiarov
5. Telework and its effects in Brazil 211
Alvaro Mello and Armando Dal Colletto
6. Organization advantage: Experience of telework in India 255
Ernesto Noronha and Premilla D’Cruz
7. Conclusions and recommendations for policy and practice 286
Jon C. Messenger

Index 317

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2019
Reihe/Serie	The ILO Future of Work series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-78990-374-2 / 1789903742
ISBN-13	978-1-78990-374-4 / 9781789903744
Zustand	Neuware