Mobility and Technology in the Workplace

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ID19902820
AuthorsKeith Townsend (0000-0002-0038-242X, corresponding author), Lyn Batchelor
EditorsDonald Hislop (0000-0003-0106-7736)
Year2008
Publication date2008-07-14
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMobility and technology in the workplace (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203894354
OpenAlexW2146258758
Open LibraryOL37293185M
ISBN9780203894354
LanguageEN
Citations received21

Mobile phones can be categorized as personal technologies and, as with other devices of this genre, increased use leads to increased reliance upon the technology (Sørensen and Pica 2003). In addition, mobile phones create opportunities, or at least the illusion of being able to create opportunities to ‘make time’ through providing temporal freedoms for the user. For example, if a someone is driving, they can return work-related calls, therefore making formerly ‘nonproductive’ time ‘productive’ time. However, the ‘rules’ of mobile phone use in the workplace represent a relatively new issue for managers throughout the world. In addition, research on the use of mobile phones in the workplace is sparse. This chapter contributes to the small but growing literature in the area

Business · Sociology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Business & Economics · Changement organisationnel · Effets des innovations sur · Employees · Informatique mobile · Labor · Labor & Industrial Relations · Mobile computing · Organizational change · Organizational effectiveness · Personnel · Political science · Technology

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