A recently published study on telecommuting has generated controversy, as Andrew R. McIlvaine reports in Human Resource Executive Online. Teleworking: Good or bad? Depends whom you ask. A recent study that warned of the potentially adverse effects of teleworking on co-workers left behind in the office was hotly disputed by the nation’s largest teleworking association. [...]

A new study has been released. A billion workers around the world will be classed as mobile by 2011, including nearly 75 per cent of the US workforce, according to IDC. The analyst firm attributes the uptake to growing pressure on companies to provide work/life balance programmes, and advances in mobile technologies. IDC’s research showed [...]