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Creating a more responsive organisation andsecuring flexible access to skill is becoming acritical success requirement. Large bureaucraticorganisations are becoming aware of thevulnerability of size where it is not accompaniedby responsiveness and flexibility. Skill shortageshave become a limiting factor. People today havean unprecedented choice of for whom, how andwhere they work. There are many special humansituations which can be addressed by a new patternof work such as telecommuting. Organisationsshould not impose particular patterns of work onpeople. Instead, using information technology asappropriate, they should allow people to work inwhatever ways best enable them to contribute. Todo this may require a new approach to skillmanagement strategy. The successfulimplementation of a new pattern of work such astelecommuting requires great care and anunderstanding of its distinctive features. Preparationfor telecommuting should involve both thetelecommuters themselves and those who managethem.
Employee Relations: An International Journal – Emerald Publishing
Published: Apr 1, 1991
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