The future of telecommuting

Futures

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 227-240

  Handy, Susan L ^a   Mokhtarian, Patricia L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUTURE PROSPECT; TELECOMMUTING; TRANSPORT PRACTICE; WORK PRACTICE;

EID: 0030446699     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-3287(96)00003-1     Document Type: Article

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