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Using IT in work at home: taking a closer look at IT use in home‐located production
Author(s) -
Chalmers Lee
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
new technology, work and employment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.889
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1468-005X
pISSN - 0268-1072
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-005x.2008.00204.x
Subject(s) - odds , production (economics) , work (physics) , knowledge production , odds ratio , demographic economics , survey data collection , labour economics , business , operations management , marketing , engineering , economics , knowledge management , computer science , logistic regression , mathematics , statistics , microeconomics , mechanical engineering
Canadian survey data indicate that information technology (IT) use is generally associated with increased odds of participation in home‐located production (HLP), but this relationship is particularly strong for employees in routine (versus knowledge) occupations. Where IT use and HLP are associated with the odds of experiencing time‐related work stress, it is in the direction of increasing the odds.