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Telework Trends in Brazil: Preliminary Research Results

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Organisation and Work Beyond 2000

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Telework studies in Brazil are still little developed. The development of Internet and its great coverage by mass media encourage the discussion of Teleworkrelated topics, but most writing “to date involves prescriptions based heavily on the experience of individuals and does not use existing theory or recent research.”

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Mello, Á.A.A., Sakuda, L.O. (2003). Telework Trends in Brazil: Preliminary Research Results. 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_27

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