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University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
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Introduction ix
1. Finding the Optimal Mix between Telework and Office Hours to Enhance
Employee Productivity: A Study into the Relationship between Telework
Intensity and Individual Productivity, with Mediation of Intrinsic Motivation
and Moderation of Office Hours
Niels Hoornweg, Pascale Peters and Beatrice van der Heijden 1
character. Many authors present some broad or even very detailed prescriptions of
management and employee practices that have to be followed in order to get the
promised benefits. Fourthly, the rate of imitation is quite high. Many boardrooms
of organizations wonder if they also should follow this concept. NWW is ‘in the
air’, it resonates to modern views of organizing. Finally, a lot of rhetoric accompa-
nies NWW as the concept that finally will raise the welfare of today’s knowledge
society by increasing the productivity of knowledge workers.
To some extent, it is dangerous and regrettable if NWW just sticks to this phase.
Regrettable, because if organizations just blind copy these management practices,
they run the risk of making the same mistakes as others do. They do not take the
optimal configuration of new technologies, practices and management techniques,
but just copy them from others, inspired by some best practices and misinformed
by many consultancy agencies that only seek their own business. So, already we see
some failures in trying to implement new ways of working, or we witness some
retreats. A famous example is Yahoo in 2013, whose CEO Marissa Mayer wants to
have everyone at the office in ‘normal’ business hours. No more flexible working
hours, no working from home, just back to normal work. She explained that
people who work alone are more productive, but people who work together are
more collaborative and innovative. Those competences are needed for their com-
pany at that particular phase. The next phase of a management fashion according
to Abrahamson, after a short and unstable asymptote, is the downswing, symmetric
to the rise and giving way to new fads and fashions.
Towards a Definition
Apparently, the concept of NWW is stemming from practice and has been coined
in the professional literature (e.g. Bijl, 2009; Gates & Rasmus, 2005; Hartmans &
Kamperman, 2009; Veldhoen, 2005). The academic literature on new ways of work-
ing is not well elaborated (see Blok, Groenesteijn, Van den Berg, & Vink, 2011; Ten
Brummelhuis, Bakker, Hetland, & Keulemans, 2012). Therefore, it is important to
disentangle the concept of NWW into concepts that have been researched in order
to conclude anything about the nature, the conditions and the outcomes of NWW.
Only then it is possible to counter or to support the claims of NWW advocates.
Only then, we can distinguish the real NWW from ‘consultancy-selling-promo-talk’
with lots of promised and non-real claims.
If we follow some non-academic authors who have been pioneering with the con-
cept of NWW in The Netherlands we can conclude that they point on some impor-
tant trends in today’s world of work. However, their analytical power in dealing
with the different concepts is a bit lacking. What they normally propose is to cluster
some practices and label these trends into one concept: New Ways of Working.
Introduction xi
Bijl (2009), Veldhoen (2005), Van den Haterd (2010) do not define NWW in an
exclusive and clear way. They all point to important developments. Especially
Veldhoen (1994, 2005) can be viewed as one of the pioneering authors on NWW.
Here, we want to elaborate on his work.
Veldhoen (2005) describes trends like open offices, individualization and new
information technologies that enable a lot of choices in where and when to work. In
his view, all these new possibilities imply a new function of the office. The nature of
the office is changing from a space to work into a space to meet. Work is done at
home, on the road or at the customer. The office is the place to meet each other, or
to have meetings and brainstorms. Veldhoen (1994, 2005) defines the concept of
workstyle as the system that regulates how people deal with one another and
resources. A workstyle is the configuration of three coherent environments or
dimensions: (1) the virtual environment (information technology supporting the
using and sharing information and knowledge; (2) the physical environment (the
building and interior design of the office) and (3) the behavioural environment or
mental dimension (attitudes and behaviour that come along with collaboration,
both from managers and employees). An activity-based workstyle means putting
the activity at the centre and choosing the right environment in which this activity
can be performed at best. This might be one of the cornerstones of NWW: provid-
ing people the freedom to choose when and where they perform their tasks and
activities and therefore optimizing the time, place and tools to perform the work. In
activity-based workstyle offices approximately 35% of the workers change work-
space during the course of the day, 45% change every other day, 18% change 2 3
times a week and 2% use the same workspace almost always (Hartmans &
Kamperman, 2009).
Many Definitions
New Ways of Working (NWW) is a concept that has been defined in a broad and
somewhat loose manner. Table 1 presents some of the most cited definitions.
We observe some overlap as well as some differences between these definitions.
In the first place, they all focus on practices in which employees can choose to work
at the time and workplace they prefer. It is safe to conclude that these definitions
all focus on practices in which employees experience some autonomy in when and
where to work. Some authors call it autonomy, others empowerment or freedom to
choose. To our understanding, this is a very basic principle of NWW and it is based
on the early insights of Veldhoen (1994) that it is about providing freedom to peo-
ple to choose the appropriate time and space to work. If employees may choose on
their own individual workstyle, it will boost their productivity and work-life
balance. In other words, one of the most important characteristics of NWW is the
possibility for employees to work independently of time and workplace. Of course,
it is important to know to what extent these two types of autonomy are realized.
We come back to the boundaries and to this ‘degree of virtuality’ (De Leede,
Kraan, den Hengst, & van Hooff, 2008) later on.
xii Introduction
In the second place, most definitions also imply a technological basis: it is the
Information Technology that is enabling to work independent from time and loca-
tion. Through the use of internet, business networks, e-mail, social media and all
kinds of collaboration technologies it is possible to work at times beyond standard
office hours and to work beyond the standard office workplaces. Technology makes
Introduction xiii
Our Definition
For reasons of analytical clarity, we define NWW in a focused manner. The main
characteristic of NWW is the freedom for employees to choose their working times
and working places. The second characteristic is the use of IT to enable this remote
work and this 24/7 possibility to work at other times. It is because information and
communication technologies enable time-space compression (Harvey, 1989) that
work is less bound to place and time. This second characteristic is absolutely a must,
because otherwise NWW will not discriminate from traditional work that for example
teachers usually do in preparing lectures or grading tests at home. That kind of work
usually was paperwork, and also possible beyond business hours and beyond office
workspaces. Nevertheless, it is not a practice that is characteristic for New Ways of
Working. Therefore, in our definition we need to incorporate the technology.
Our definition of NWW is as follows:
New Ways of Working are practices in which employees are able to work independent of time,
place and organization, supported by a flexible work environment which is facilitated by infor-
mation technologies.
We now are able to make a list of NWW practices that are exemplary for NWW,
see Table 2. It is largely based on the work of Blok et al. (2011), however we added
some practices and also left some out (like management based on trust), because
these seem to be conditions for the effective application of NWW practices.
Having defined NWW as working independent of time, place and organization,
we incorporated only the flexible working environment and the technology as part
of the definition. No other variables. That is a deliberate choice. It seems important
to distinguish between the concept and its conditions. Of course, we agree that
NWW needs to be managed in a somewhat different way compared to the old
xiv Introduction
situation in which people are always and simultaneously around. In Chapter 3, the
new way of leadership will be discussed. And of course, it is important to having
trusting relationships between managers and remote workers, or between co-work-
ers. And we also agree with the notion of communication as an important vehicle
to ensure collaboration between employees who are working on different places and
different times. In Chapter 4 we will discuss the implications of NWW for team-
work. However, key is that we see all these variables as an implication of NWW,
not as a defining characteristic.
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