Is teleworking for the millennials?

SIGMIS CPR'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 197-207

  Nicholas, Arlene J ^a   Guzman, Indira R ^b  

^a SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUI University   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Computer competence; Millennials; Teleworking; Work life balance

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY; MILLENNIALS; SURVEY INSTRUMENTS; TELEWORK; TELEWORKING; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS; WORK/LIFE BALANCE;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL; RESEARCH;

TELECOMMUTING;

EID: 70349332299     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1542130.1542168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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