103 relations: Air pollution, American Society of Civil Engineers, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Annual leave, Business incubator, Business manager, Business network, Call center industry in the Philippines, Canadian Telework Association, Carbon footprint, Centralisation, Chief financial officer, Clean Air Act (United States), Coffeehouse, Commuting, Comparison of office suites, Computer-mediated communication, Conference hall, Consumer Technology Association, Coworking, Cubicle, Customer, Desktop computer, Desktop virtualization, Economic growth, Efficient energy use, Email, Employee engagement, Employment, Federal government of the United States, Federal Trade Commission, Financial planner, Flextime, Forbes, Freelancer, General Services Administration, Gerald R. Salancik, Gerardine DeSanctis, Greenhouse gas, Greenwood Publishing Group, Home Work Convention, Hot desking, Hoteling, Independent contractor, Information and communications technology, Internet, Job characteristic theory, Job performance, Job satisfaction, Labour market flexibility, ..., Landline, Laptop, Lurita Doan, Media richness theory, Mobile telephony, National Science Foundation, Office, Outsourcing, Peking University, Popular culture, Productivity, Public transport, Publishing, Putting-out system, Real estate, Remote office center, Retail, Reuters, Small office/home office, Smartphone, Social information processing, Social Security number, Sociotechnical system, Stanford University, Startup accelerator, Study (room), Tablet computer, Telecentre, Telecommunication, The Wall Street Journal, Time zone, Traffic congestion, Transport, Travel agency, Turnover (employment), Two-factor theory, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, United States Office of Personnel Management, United States Postal Inspection Service, Vacation, Virtual assistant (occupation), Virtual team, Virtual volunteering, Warehouse, Washington metropolitan area, Westport, Connecticut, Wi-Fi, Wiki software, Work at home parent, Work motivation, Work-at-home scheme, Work–family conflict, Work–life balance. Expand index (53 more) »
Air pollution
Air pollution occurs when harmful or excessive quantities of substances including gases, particulates, and biological molecules are introduced into Earth's atmosphere.
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American Society of Civil Engineers
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a tax-exempt professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide.
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Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability.
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Annual leave
Annual leave is paid time off work granted by employers to employees to be used for whatever the employee wishes.
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Business incubator
A business incubator is a company that helps new and startup companies to develop by providing services such as management training or office space.
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Business manager
A business manager drives the work of others in order to run a major business efficiently and make a large profit.
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Business network
A business network is a complex network of companies, working together to accomplish certain goals.
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Call center industry in the Philippines
Call centers began in the Philippines as providers of email response and managing services then broadened to industrial capabilities for almost all types of customer relations, ranging from travel services, technical support, education, customer care, financial services, online business-to-customer support, and online business-to-business support.
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Canadian Telework Association
The Canadian Telework Association (CTA) is an organization promoting telework and telecommuting in Canada.
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Carbon footprint
A carbon footprint is historically defined as the total emissions caused by an individual, event, organisation, or product, expressed as carbon dioxide equivalent.
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Centralisation
Centralisation (British), or centralization (both British and American), is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those regarding planning and decision-making, become concentrated within a particular location or group, keeping all of the important decision-making powers within the head office or the centre of the organisation.
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Chief financial officer
The chief financial officer (CFO) is the officer of a company that has primary responsibility for managing the company's finances, including financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financial reporting.
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Clean Air Act (United States)
The Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C.) is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level.
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Coffeehouse
A coffeehouse, coffee shop or café (sometimes spelt cafe) is an establishment which primarily serves hot coffee, related coffee beverages (café latte, cappuccino, espresso), tea, and other hot beverages.
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Commuting
Commuting is periodically recurring travel between one's place of residence and place of work, or study, and in doing so exceed the boundary of their residential community.
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Comparison of office suites
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of office suites.
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Computer-mediated communication
Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is defined as any human communication that occurs through the use of two or more electronic devices.
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Conference hall
A conference hall, conference room, or meeting room is a room provided for singular events such as business conferences and meetings.
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Consumer Technology Association
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA), formerly Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), is a standards and trade organization for the consumer electronics industry in the United States.
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Coworking
Coworking is a style of work that involves a shared workplace, often an office, and independent activity.
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Cubicle
A cubicle is a partially enclosed office workspace that is separated from neighboring workspaces by partitions that are usually tall.
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Customer
In sales, commerce and economics, a customer (sometimes known as a client, buyer, or purchaser) is the recipient of a good, service, product or an idea - obtained from a seller, vendor, or supplier via a financial transaction or exchange for money or some other valuable consideration.
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Desktop computer
A desktop computer is a personal computer designed for regular use at a single location on or near a desk or table due to its size and power requirements.
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Desktop virtualization
Desktop virtualization is software technology that separates the desktop environment and associated application software from the physical client device that is used to access it.
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Economic growth
Economic growth is the increase in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy over time.
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Efficient energy use
Efficient energy use, sometimes simply called energy efficiency, is the goal to reduce the amount of energy required to provide products and services.
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Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.
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Employee engagement
Employee Engagement is a fundamental concept in the effort to understand and describe, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the nature of the relationship between an organization and its employees.
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Employment
Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee.
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Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a constitutional republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D.C. (the nation's capital), and several territories.
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Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
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Financial planner
A financial planner or personal financial planner is a professional who prepares financial plans for people.
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Flextime
Flextime (also spelled flexitime, flex-time) is a flexible hours schedule that allows workers to alter workday start and finish times.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine.
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Freelancer
A freelancer or freelance worker is a term commonly used for a person who is self-employed and is not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term.
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General Services Administration
The General Services Administration (GSA), an independent agency of the United States government, was established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies.
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Gerald R. Salancik
Gerald R. (Jerry) Salancik (Jan. 29, 1943 - July 24, 1996) was an American organizational theorist, and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Gerardine DeSanctis
Gerardine L. (Gerry) DeSanctis (January 5, 1954 - August 16, 2005) was an American organizational theorist and Thomas F. Keller Professor of Business Administration at Duke University, known for her work on group decision support systems and automated decision support.
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Greenhouse gas
A greenhouse gas is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range.
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Greenwood Publishing Group
ABC-CLIO/Greenwood is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-CLIO.
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Home Work Convention
Home Work Convention, 1996 is an International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention, which came into force in 2000.
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Hot desking
Hot desking (sometimes called "non-reservation-based hoteling") is an office organization system which involves multiple workers using a single physical work station or surface during different time periods.
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Hoteling
Hoteling (also hotelling or office hoteling) is a method of office management in which workers dynamically schedule their use of workspaces such as desks, cubicles, and offices.
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Independent contractor
An independent contractor is a natural person, business, or corporation that provides goods or services to another entity under terms specified in a contract or within a verbal agreement.
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Information and communications technology
Information and communication technology (ICT) is another/extensional term for information technology (IT) which stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals), computers as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audio-visual systems, which enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information.
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Internet
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.
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Job characteristic theory
Job characteristics theory is a theory of work design.
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Job performance
Job performance assesses whether a person performs a job well.
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Job satisfaction
Job satisfaction or employee satisfaction is a measure of workers' contentedness with their job, whether or not they like the job or individual aspects or facets of jobs, such as nature of work or supervision.
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Labour market flexibility
The degree of labour market flexibility is the speed with which labour markets adapt to fluctuations and changes in society, the economy or production.
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Landline
A landline telephone (also known as land line, land-line, main line, home phone, landline, fixed-line, and wireline) is a phone that uses a metal wire or optical fiber telephone line for transmission as distinguished from a mobile cellular line, which uses radio waves for transmission.
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Laptop
A laptop, also called a notebook computer or just notebook, is a small, portable personal computer with a "clamshell" form factor, having, typically, a thin LCD or LED computer screen mounted on the inside of the upper lid of the "clamshell" and an alphanumeric keyboard on the inside of the lower lid.
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Lurita Doan
Lurita Alexis Doan (born Lurita Alexis; January 4, 1958) is a businesswoman, political commentator, and former Republican appointee who was the administrator of the United States General Services Administration, the government's contracting agency, from May 31, 2006, to April 29, 2008, during the administration of Republican U.S. President George W. Bush.
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Media richness theory
Media richness theory, sometimes referred to as information richness theory or MRT, is a framework used to describe a communication medium's ability to reproduce the information sent over it.
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Mobile telephony
Mobile telephony is the provision of telephone services to phones which may move around freely rather than stay fixed in one location.
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National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.
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Office
An office is generally a room or other area where administrative work is done by an organization's users in order to support and realize objects and goals of the organization.
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Outsourcing
In business, outsourcing is an agreement in which one company contracts its own internal activity to a different company.
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Peking University
Peking University (abbreviated PKU or Beida; Chinese: 北京大学, pinyin: běi jīng dà xué) is a major Chinese research university located in Beijing and a member of the C9 League.
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Popular culture
Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.
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Productivity
Productivity describes various measures of the efficiency of production.
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Public transport
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, or mass transit) is transport of passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that charge a posted fee for each trip.
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Publishing
Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.
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Putting-out system
The putting-out system is a means of subcontracting work.
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Real estate
Real estate is "property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.
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Remote office center
Remote office centers are office space leasing centers which lease individual offices to employees from multiple companies in a single office location or center.
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Retail
Retail is the process of selling consumer goods or services to customers through multiple channels of distribution to earn a profit.
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Reuters
Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
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Small office/home office
Small office/home office (or single office/home office; SOHO) refers to the category of business or cottage industry that involves from 1 to 10 workers.
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Smartphone
A smartphone is a handheld personal computer with a mobile operating system and an integrated mobile broadband cellular network connection for voice, SMS, and Internet data communication; most, if not all, smartphones also support Wi-Fi.
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Social information processing
Social information processing is "an activity through which collective human actions organize knowledge." It is the creation and processing of information by a group of people.
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Social Security number
In the United States, a Social Security number (SSN) is a nine-digit number issued to U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and temporary (working) residents under section 205(c)(2) of the Social Security Act, codified as.
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Sociotechnical system
Sociotechnical systems (STS) in organizational development is an approach to complex organizational work design that recognizes the interaction between people and technology in workplaces.
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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Startup accelerator
Startup accelerators, also known as seed accelerators, are fixed-term, cohort-based programs that include seed investment, connections, mentorship, educational components, and culminate in a public pitch event or demo day to accelerate growth.
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Study (room)
A study is a room in a house that is used for paperwork, computer work, or reading.
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Tablet computer
A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a portable personal computer, typically with a mobile operating system and LCD touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single thin, flat package.
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Telecentre
A telecentre is a public place where people can access computers, the Internet, and other digital technologies that enable them to gather information, create, learn, and communicate with others while they develop essential digital skills.
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Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of signs, signals, messages, words, writings, images and sounds or information of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Time zone
A time zone is a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes.
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Traffic congestion
Traffic congestion is a condition on transport networks that occurs as use increases, and is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queueing.
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Transport
Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another.
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Travel agency
A travel agency is a private retailer or public service that provides travel and tourism related services to the public on behalf of suppliers such as activities, airlines, car rentals, cruise lines, hotels, railways, travel insurance, and package tours.
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Turnover (employment)
In human resources context, turnover is the act of replacing an employee with a new employee.
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Two-factor theory
The two-factor theory (also known as Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory and dual-factor theory) states that there are certain factors in the workplace that cause job satisfaction, while a separate set of factors cause dissatisfaction.
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United States Department of Veterans Affairs
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a federal Cabinet-level agency that provides near-comprehensive healthcare services to eligible military veterans at VA medical centers and outpatient clinics located throughout the country; several non-healthcare benefits including disability compensation, vocational rehabilitation, education assistance, home loans, and life insurance; and provides burial and memorial benefits to eligible veterans and family members at 135 national cemeteries.
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United States Office of Personnel Management
The United States Office of Personnel Management (acronym: OPM) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that manages the government's civilian workforce.
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United States Postal Inspection Service
The United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) is the law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service.
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Vacation
A vacation or holiday is a leave of absence from a regular occupation, or a specific trip or journey, usually for the purpose of recreation or tourism.
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Virtual assistant (occupation)
A virtual assistant (typically abbreviated to VA, also called a virtual office assistant) is generally self-employed and provides professional administrative, technical, or creative (social) assistance to clients remotely from a home office.
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Virtual team
A virtual team (also known as a geographically dispersed team, distributed team, or remote team) usually refers to a group of individuals who work together from different geographic locations and rely on communication technology such as email, FAX, and video or voice conferencing services in order to collaborate.
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Virtual volunteering
Virtual volunteering refers to volunteer activities completed, in whole or in part, using the Internet and a home, school, telecenter, or work computer or other Internet-connected device, such as a smart-phone (a cell phone with Internet functions) or personal digital assistant (PDA).
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Warehouse
A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods.
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Washington metropolitan area
The Washington metropolitan area is the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.
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Westport, Connecticut
Westport is an affluent town located in Connecticut, along Long Island Sound within Connecticut's Gold Coast in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
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Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi or WiFi is technology for radio wireless local area networking of devices based on the IEEE 802.11 standards.
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Wiki software
Wiki software (also known as a wiki engine or wiki application) is a collaborative software that runs a wiki, which allows users to create and collaboratively edit "pages" or entries via a web browser.
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Work at home parent
A work at home parent is an entrepreneur who works from home and integrates parenting into his or her business activities.
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Work motivation
Work motivation "is a set of energetic forces that originate both within as well as beyond an individual's being, to initiate work-related behavior, and to determine its form, direction, intensity, and duration"Pinder, C. C.(2008).
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Work-at-home scheme
A work-at-home scheme is a get-rich-quick scam in which a victim is lured by an offer to be employed at home, very often doing some simple task in a minimal amount of time with a large amount of income that far exceeds the market rate for the type of work.
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Work–family conflict
Work-family conflict occurs when an individual experiences incompatible demands between work and family roles, causing participation in both roles to become more difficult.
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Work–life balance
Work–life balance is the term used to describe the balance that an individual needs between time allocated for work and other aspects of life.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommuting