All in a day's work, at home: Teleworkers' management of micro role transitions and the work-home boundary

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 242-257

  Fonner, Kathryn L ^a,b   Stache, Lara C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary management; Role transitions; Telecommuting; Telework; Work life balance; Work life conflict

Indexed keywords

QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUTING;

EID: 84868153407     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: 1468005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-005X.2012.00290.x     Document Type: Article

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