Mobile Working Environments

[activemode]

Here's a short evaluation on Mobile Working
Mobile Work requires that you do what needs to be done. Since you'll probably never meet your Boss face to face, you'll be judged on the work you do, and nothing else.  Let's see if your dependable enough to sign in every day, and perform just one assignment.  It's not as easy as you think !

http://www.activemode.com/mobile/MobileWorkRules.aspx

[gregh]

 

[Monalisa]

Undoubtedly the use of technology by corporations to facilitate mobile and flexible working has largely been a positive development for staff and the productivity of company. But the intrusive nature of an 'always on' culture has its downsides too. Research has consistently shown that those who work from home put in longer hours than they would if they had been in the office. And how many of us use our wirelessly-enabled laptops, PDAs, Blackberrys, mobile phones and broadband PCs to check work emails long into the night and over weekends?

Also if work becomes mobile boundaries become more difficult to define and maintain. Hoes do the different stakeholders draw upon technology to order, negotiate and renegotiate this ambiguity? What are the ordering methods, tools and techniques available and how do they shape notions such as work activity, control, privacy, surveillance, authority, legitimacy and relations of power.

Commuting and the old nine-to-five desk-based existence may well be stressful but we also need to think more carefully about how we are going to maintain worker wellness in this 'always on' corporate culture.