Employees' Perception on Teleworking in Sri Lankan Software Industry

Abstract

Teleworking is an alternative way to organize work that integrates two sources of competitive advantage: a company's Human Resources and the new Information and Telecommunication Technologies. There is no agreement in literature about teleworking definition and its different meanings. Sometimes, terms such as telecommuting, remote working, and home working are used to explain its different meanings.Teleworking occurs when employees perform all or a substantial part of their work physically separated from the location of their employer, using IT for operation and communication (Baruch, 2001). Davenport and Pearlson (1998) introduce teleworking as an alternative mode of work, enabled by technological improvements and increase in use of information technology (IT) on the one hand, and on the other hand, by an unconventional managerial approach, which takes it that work is what you do, not a place where you go.