Office Technology and People: Volume 2 Issue 1

WORKING‐AT‐HOME: HOW TO COPE WITH SPATIAL DESIGN POSSIBILITIES CAUSED BY THE NEW COMMUNICATION MEDIA

Stefan Brandt

Futuristic scenarios demonstrate far‐reaching impacts of new communication technologies on the spatial as well as the formal structure of organizations. Working‐at‐home can be…

ISSUES AND APPROACHES TO APPRAISING TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE OFFICE: A CONSEOUENTIALIST PERSPECTIVE

H.K. Klein, R. Hirschheim

Offices have always been complex social systems. With the growth of office automation they will have to be recognized as socio‐technical systems. The problems of prediction of…

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, POWER AND MANAGERS

Brian Wynne, Harry J. Otway

Although the most significant economic benefits of using new information technology in organisations will come from increasing the productivity of well‐paid managers, research has…

When the Computer Takes Over the Office

Ida Russakoff Hoos

All classes of jobs, from office clerk to vice president, are affected, quantitatively and qualitatively …

“WHEN THE COMPUTER TAKES OVER THE OFFICE”— UPDATE

Ida R. Hoos

Now that the computer has taken over the office and, incidentally, has changed the structure, contours, and dynamics of the business world, there is urgent need for a…