Beschreibung:
Will working from home solve many of society's ills, or create new ghettos? This book analyzes the experiences to look at workload, mobility, work status and gender to understand the implications of telecommuting on employment policies, community planning and daily life patterns.
Figures and TablesAcknowledgments1. Telework As Restructured Work2. Profiling the Teleworker: Contextualizing Telework3. Working at Home and Being at Home: Blurred Boundaries4. A Strategy of a Dispensable Workforce: Telework in Canada5. Localizing the Networked Economy: A Vancouver Case Study6. "I Don't Have a Home, I Live in My Office": Transformations in the Spaces of Daily Life7. Convergence: Telework As Everywhere, Every Time8. ConclusionAppendicesA. Survey Instrument of California Study: Interview Schedule for Study on Social and Environmental Impact of Working at HomeB. Survey Instrument of Canadian Survey: Telework and Home-Based Employment SurveyC. Respondent Occupations, California StudyD. Respondent Occupations, Canadian SurveyNotesBibliographyIndex