Advantages And Disadvantages Of Teleworking

Working from home has many different names. For example: home-working, home-based working, flexible working, flexplace work, remote working, telecommuting, telework, net-working, distance work, virtual work, mobile working and much more. But the best fitting name from my point of view is telework. At telework, the employees of a company work sometime of their typical work hours away from the office. This can range from a few hours per week up to a nearly full time absence. During this work absence which place is typically at home, the employees use modern technology for interacting with their employers to re-ceive their tasks {Allen 2015 #45D: 44}.

Working from home brings benefits and disadvantages at the same time. This could refer both

The context between job and per-son is an important fact, when it comes to teleworking. The amount of telework as well as the satisfaction stands in a positive relationship at lower levels of telecommunicating. In contrast, satisfaction platforms are positive related at higher levels of teleworking (around 15.1 hours per week). This results in a curvilinear relationship between Job satisfaction and teleworking. Frequent teleworking employees face a lack of social interaction as well as a professional isolation which could void all benefits from teleworking. Performance orien-tated Jobs, as well as Jobs with more mutual dependence and higher discretion the curve (Golden & Veiga, 2005; Virick et al., 2010). Firms with high turnover rates (Chaudron, 1995; Golden, 2006a) or absenteeism (Collins, 2005) could use telework for reducing these problems. Moreover, telework increases individual productivity which is attributable to a distraction-free work place unlike the noisy office included with unnecessary

It involved four types of jobs: Order takers, order placers, order correctors as well as night shift workers.

Order takers entered the information, which they have collected from customer calls and their orders, into the Ctrip information system. Order placers notified their clients after they contacted the airlines and hotels. Order correctors were responsible for problems like can-celed flights. And the night shift did the job of order placers as well as order correctors.

Every employee worked with the same equipment which includes a computer, a telephone and a headset in a cubicle. For starting their work, employees had to log in into the Ctrip IT system. As soon as they were logged in, client calls were automatically routed to the order taker’s headsets and tasks were appropriated automatically to order placers as well as order correctors. For taking a break the workers had to log out of the