Abstract
Telecommuting is a global phenomenon — countries in Asia, the Americas and Europe all report some of their countrymen working from home — in most cases this number seems to be gradually increasing, although not as fast as some of the earlier predictions. However, the research would indicate that telecommuting is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. Why do staff and their employers embrace telecommuting? The literature points to a series of reasons in the areas of advantages and disadvantages, personal attitudes to work and the tasks involved. This chapter, which looks at workers in Singapore, attempts to identify the reasons explaining the preference to telecommute, what governs the suitability of tasks for telecommuting, and what factors explain the amount of telecommuting being practiced.
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Dick, G.N., Tung, L.L. (2003). Telecommuting in Singapore. In: Rapp, B., Jackson, P. (eds) Organisation and Work Beyond 2000. Contributions to Management Science. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57346-0_25
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