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What is Telecenter (U.S. spelling) or Telecentre (UK spelling)

Chapter 141
Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
Work location usually in a different place than the organization’s main office that provides convenient occasional access for telecommuting to work equipment that they don’t have at home or on the road. It provides workplace for people who may well have full time jobs but want to work away from their employer’s “functional office” but who don’t want to work in their homes.
Published in Chapter:
The New Process of Work
Maria do Rosario de Almeida (Open University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch141
Abstract
Toward the end of the twentieth century, more specifically in the 1990s, many organizations initiated changes in the way they used space and time. New methods of working emerged that gave some organizations the possibility of integrating the physical work environment into their business processes, increasing the occupation density of any given space while simultaneously creating more effective working spaces that promoted interactivity and communication (Comisión Europea, 2002).
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