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Telework in the 21st century: An evolutionary perspective

A new conceptual framework explaining the evolution of telework over four decades.

This insightful book offers a new conceptual framework explaining the evolution of telework over four decades.

New information and communications technologies have revolutionized daily life and work in the 21st century. This insightful book offers a new conceptual framework explaining the evolution of telework over four decades. It reviews national experiences from Argentina, Brazil, India, Japan, the United States and 10 EU countries, and analyses large-scale surveys and company case studies regarding the incidence of telework and its effects on working time, work-life balance, occupational health and well-being, and individual and organizational performance.

Co-published with Edward Elgar Publishing, this is the first book in the new ILO Future of Work Series.