Developing models of preference for home-based and center-based telecommuting: findings and forecasts

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A survey of telecommuting preferences reveals that there are marked differences in the social aspects of center based and home based telecommuting. Logit estimation reveals that center based activity tends to focus on personal benefits, the lack of autonomy, the presence of children under 6 years of age, job suitability, high overtime rates and older respondents while home based activity tends to cite lack of personal benefits, strong work ethic, job suitability and the presence of children below 2 years. Home based versus center based telecommuting was also considered.

Telephone Communication, Other Telecommunications, Other Telecom Services, Research, Telecommunications industry, Telecommuting

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Telecommuting: The Employee's Perspective

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Telecommuting offers benefits to employees, employers, and the community. These benefits are both primary and secondary in nature. Using Maslow's Theory of Human Motivation, the Salomons' rank employees in two categories, those needing to belong and those needing achievement. An employee's ability to find satisfaction with off-site employment may depend on their position in the Maslow hierarchy. Some employees actually benefit from commuting to and working in an office. The Salomons call for additional research and monitoring in specific areas.

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European technology policy and global Schumpeter Dynamics: a social science perspective

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The evolution of industrialized societies is presented via a model that combines the systems theory advocated by Luhman and that of innovation propounded by the economist Schumpeter. One of the latter's ideas known as Schumpeter Dynamics involves an attempt to rationalize efforts to balance the expansionist tendency of advanced societies in terms of economic development with the need to preserve the world's ecology in terms of resource saving and eco-engineering. European technology policy is evaluated against this premise.

Social aspects, Europe, Science and technology policy, Industrialized countries, Industrial nations

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