Telecommuting

A computer company has had a recent increase in workers, but they have very little workspace available. The company has about one hundred seventy-five workers with an age range of thirty to sixty-five years old. The head of the company has decided that the best solution for providing workspace for employees is to have half of the employees work from home on their own computers. Employees will be given a certain amount of work each day that they will be required to finish at home. The company will

the staff, and ensure they receive a copy of the group email (Munroe, 2014). * Everyone is not cut out to be a remote worker. People who are self-starters, savvy with the computer and do not have many distractions are prone to do well with a telecommuting job. When interviewing someone for this position. It should be emphasized that distractions will not be tolerated. Also employees should have a place that is dedicated for their office. * Performance reviews are an

I am writing to inform you about the endless possibilities that could be obtained by, acquiring a computer, purchasing Internet services, and getting you connected to the web. Today, technology influences all aspects of life. With the many advances in computer software, you are able to do things right from home. You are able to stay in touch with long distance relatives via the web,able to program and view security surveillance over owned property from your smartphone. You are even able to work from

Cleveland Clinic Employee Value Proposition The Cleveland Clinic is a world renowned healthcare organization that treats patients from all over the world. They have a system of hospitals, health centers, emergency departments, urgent and express care centers, pharmacies, and physician practices in Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Canada and Abu Dhabi. According to Cleveland Clinic’s website: Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit organization and a network of hospitals, clinics, research and educational institutions

A New Kind of Office for the New Generation Jennifer Osborne Kaplan University A New Kind of Office for the New Generation For the longest time, office jobs consisted of the same old thing. Employees would get up, get ready, sit in traffic, go into work, punch in, and sit in their cubicle or office until the day ended and went home to get ready to start the process all over again. Now, things are starting to change the offices that we have been accustomed to. As technology grows and expands

Informing Science InSITE - “Where Parallels Intersect” June 2003 Influence of Internet and Information Technology on Work and Human Resource Management Peter Baloh and Peter Trkman Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia peter.baloh@uni-lj.si peter.trkman@uni-lj.si Abstract Internet has transformed our lives and the way we communicate, how we learn, how we work and spend free time, in essence – it has more or less changed every aspect of human society one can think

In the 1990s Telecommuting became popular. (“Wikipedia”, n.d., para.1) It allowed a way for employers to have workers that still accomplished the day to day task necessary to run a business and also allowed employee’s to work without traveling into a dedicate office building or store. In today’s society, I have noticed that there are more job posting for software developers in the United States that offer working remotely versus working at an office building. The purpose of the dissertation is

Introduction Often time people find themselves working at odd hours of the day or night in order to connect with their teams around the globe. Meetings and conference calls are a necessity to conduct business and expand operations; however, in order to meet this need more and more employees are working virtually. Conference calls are conducted from home, airports, and automobiles. On-line meetings can be held using applications such as Microsoft Lync that have audio and video capabilities. Screen

Flexibility is the willingness to change or compromise. When flexibility exists in the workspace, both the employee and employer maximize their productivity. Workspace is a space in which employees execute work for the company employing them. Workspace flexibility is comprised of the decisions made by the company and the employee to better tailor when, where, and how an individual will work to meet the needs of both the employee and the company. Workspace flexibility encompasses a large array of

Introduction Since Nilles first defined the term ‘telecommunicating’ (Nilles 1975), or alternatively, teleworking, this new method of performing the job has been more and more exercised as a cure for various ‘organisational ills’, for example, work-family balance (Bailey & Kurland 2002). By the end of last century, there were 1.1 million employees in USA working out of office (Bailey & Kurland 2002). The term ‘teleworking’ is defined as a flexible work arrangement that allows employees to work almost