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Toward the perfect workplace?

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L. BailynAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 32, Issue 4

Pages 460 - 471

https://doi.org/10.1145/63334.63338

Published: 01 April 1989 Publication History

Abstract

The experience of home-based systems developers is compared with their office-based counterparts in a UK computer firm. The analysis produced two major patterns: the home-based workers find intrinsic value in the job, whereas office-based employees view it more instrumentally and find it interferes with satisfaction on a personal level.

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Toward the perfect workplace?
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing and business
    2. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management

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Communications of the ACM Volume 32, Issue 4

April 1989

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DOI:10.1145/63334

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