期刊名称:Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review
电子版ISSN:2223-5833
出版年度:2014
卷号:3
期号:6
出版社:Sohar University, Oman and American University of Kuwait
摘要:Information and communicationstechnology has an influence on various areas of life, including theways of doing things. One of these influencesis doing some works without geographical limitations and being far away from workplace (telecommuting). In this method, a telecommuter does his/her job, with the help of network facilities and the use of computer in a place apart from his/her real workplace and the reports would be transmitted electronically to his/her workplace (by him/her). This method has many advantages and disadvantages that can affectits implementation and sustainability in organizations and offices. After reviewing the telecommuting literature and also a global evaluating of the advantages and disadvantages of this method, the present study has reviewed Isfahan municipalemployees' view about the advantagesand disadvantages of telecommuting. The results showed that the telecommuting has many advantages for municipal telecommuters and despite the drawbacks and difficulties that this method had had on this group, about 70%of respondents believed that there is a possibility of working, using telecommuting and 40% believed that it is possible to manage telecommuting completely in municipality and 64% said that telecommuting is applicable in some parts of municipality. Themean advantage and disadvantage of telecommuting is above average. But the mean score of telecommuting advantages was higher than the disadvantages
关键词:tel;ecommuting; telecommuting in municipality; telecommuters; advantages and ;disadvantages; ;feasibility