| dc.contributor.author | Ng, Cheuk | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-16T20:48:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-01-16T20:48:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-01-16T20:48:53Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2149/3423 | |
| dc.description | I made the presentation entitled “Mobile knowledge workers working anytime anywhere?” to an audience with various disciplinary backgrounds from around the world at the 2nd World Social Sciences Forum in Montreal, Quebec, on October 15, 2013. The theme of the Forum was Social Transformations and the Digital Age, covering a wide range of topics such as big/open data, research libraries’ role in data stewardship, intergenerational communication, and privacy and surveillance. My presentation was part of a symposium on New Forms of Work. The other presentations at the symposium ranged from understanding work, family, and technology figurations in the home, corporate crisis management in times of social media, to immaterial labour, monetization, commodification and the political in social media. The international audience showed general interest in telework and mobile work as changes in the world of work. My presentation was received well, with several colleagues sharing related work or requesting for a copy of my presentation and related papers for use in their teaching and research. Participation in other sessions at the Forum provided further food for thought for my teaching and research as our society is being transformed in many ways in this digital age. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Recent advances in mobile technologies and the popular use of mobile devices in our daily lives suggest that knowledge worker can now work from anywhere at any time, or while on the move. Is this true? Research suggests that only a small percentage of teleworkers work full-time from home; most teleworkers work from multiple sites including their organizational workspace, their home, and other public and private spaces (e.g., client’s offices and “third places”). While growing research efforts have been on the impact of teleworking from home on knowledge workers’ family and personal life, productivity, and job satisfaction, research on understanding working from multiple sites, “mobile work”, is just beginning. The proposed paper will review research and theoretical perspectives that explore mobile work performed by knowledge workers in organizations. Who are these mobile teleworkers? Where, when, and how do they work? The focus will be on the inter-relationships between the physical and social environment of a diversity of workplaces, particularly “third spaces” – public and private spaces that had not been considered as workplaces -- and work behaviours and well-being. How do they transform the physical environment of these public spaces to accommodate their work activities? Future research and practical implications for the design of these spaces and organizational policies will be discussed. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 92.927.G1454; | |
| dc.subject | Telework | en |
| dc.subject | Mobile Work | en |
| dc.title | Working Anytime Anywhere: Mobile Knowledge Workers | en |
| dc.type | Presentation | en |
