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Telecommuting and Emissions Reductions: Evaluating Results from the ecommute Program [PDF]

open access: yes
In 1999 Congress passed the National Air Quality and Telecommuting Act. This Act established pilot telecommuting programs in five major U.S. metropolitan areas with the express purpose of studying the feasibility of addressing air quality concerns ...
Nelson, Per-Kristian, Walls, Margaret
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Telework in the Federal Government: The Overview Memo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Flexible Work Arrangements (FWAs) alter the time and/or place that employees work on a regular basis in a manner that is manageable and predictable for both employees and employers.1 Telework, also called telecommuting, refers to an FWA that enables an ...
Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center
core   +1 more source

The Job Task Penalty for Motherhood

open access: yesJournal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examines how childbirth affects women's job tasks. Background Motherhood remains a key source of gendered inequalities in the labor market. Yet little is known about how it reshapes women's work content, even though job tasks are critical for job quality, skill development, and long‐term career trajectories.
Wiebke Schulz, Gundula Zoch
wiley   +1 more source

A Review of the Literature on Telecommuting and Its Implications for Vehicle Travel and Emissions [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper, we review 20 relatively recent empirical studies of telecommuting, all of which focus on the trip reduction perspective. The studies include earlier ones with smaller datasets, such as some pilot studies of individual employers, and more ...
Safirova, Elena, Walls, Margaret
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How Change Recipients Become Rivals: Legitimacy Dynamics and ‘Cooptive Rejection’ in Organizational Change

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Our study challenges a commonly held assumption in the legitimacy and organizational change literatures: that the legitimacy of a change project is closely tied to, and dependent upon, the legitimacy of the change agent promoting it. Drawing on an in‐depth, three‐and‐a‐half‐year qualitative study of a major transformation within a French ...
Alaric Bourgoin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Hybrid Work Shapes Communication Ties: The Role of Concern about Relationship Loss and Organizational Identification

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The rapid shift to hybrid work settings has raised concerns about decreased workplace interactions and communication ties. Based on Need‐to‐Belong Theory, this study extends previous research by adopting the concept of ‘concern about relationship loss’ to explore when and how hybrid work leads to the retention of work‐related communication ...
Christian Tröster, Prisca Brosi
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling the Choice of Telecommuting 3: Identifying the Choice Set and Estimating Binary Choice Models for Technology-Based Alternatives [PDF]

open access: yes
Previous papers in this series have presented a conceptual model of the individual decision to telecommute and explored relationships among constraints, preference, and choice. A related paper has developed a binary model of the preference for home-based
Ilan Salomon, Patricia Mokhtarian
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Home Safe Home: Safety Gains Through Telework During the Covid‐19 Pandemic

open access: yesLABOUR, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper exploits exogenous shifts in work organisation during the Covid‐19 pandemic to study the implications of hybrid and remote work arrangements on occupational safety. Combining accident registers and household survey microdata from Hungary, we are able to address potential selection and reporting bias, and reliably identify the ...
Bálint Menyhért, Szilárd Erhart
wiley   +1 more source

Control Over Work Hours and Alternative Work Schedules [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
[Excerpt] Alternative work schedules encompass work hours that do not necessarily fall inside the perimeters of the traditional and often rigid 8-hour workday or 40-hour workweek.
AFL-CIO Working Women’s Department   +1 more
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