Activity-based working: How the use of available workplace options increases perceived autonomy in the workplace.
BACKGROUND: If companies are building offices, nowadays, they mostly realize activity-based concepts as a response to growing flexibility requirements of a digitalized society. Activity-based concepts provide multiple workplace options to employees. After moving to new workspaces, employees need to...
| Publicado en: | Work Vol. 73; no. 4; pp. 1325 - 1337 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2022
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