Telework: Enabling Distributed Organizations

Abstract

Abstract Telework is a strategic IS-based tool that can help achieve the timeliness, accuracy, and comprehensiveness critical to organizational effectiveness and competitive advantage. As the keepers of one of telework's main enablers, IT managers should understand telework's success factors and such key implementation issues as operational requirements, security, hardware and software, training and support, and organizational players. Additional informationNotes on contributorsJack M. Nilles As president of JALA international. Inc., a management consulting firm, JACK M. NILLES has developed and evaluated telecommuting projects for a variety of Fortune 100 companies, state governments, and other government agencies in the US and abroad, Known as the father of telecommuting, he authored The Telecommunications-Transportation Tradeoff, the original work on telecommuting, lie can be reached at [e-mail].