Telecommuting: Problems Associated with Communications Technologies and Their Capabilities

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 305-318

  Gupta, Yash P ^a   Karimi, Jahangir ^a   Somers, Toni M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; JOB ANALYSIS; MICROELECTRONICS; MODERNIZATION; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

ORGANIZATION WORK ARRANGEMENT; RESIDENTIAL MARKET COMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUTING;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 0029406003     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: 15580040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.482081     Document Type: Article

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