Abstract

LOPEZ, Nelson W.; PEREZ-SIMON, M. Claudia; NAGHAM-NGWESSITCHEU, Edwige G.  and  VAZQUEZ-UBAGO, María. Teleworking, an approach from the perspective of occupational health. Med. segur. trab. [online]. 2014, vol.60, n.236, pp.587-599. ISSN 1989-7790.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S0465-546X2014000300009.

The development of TIC contributed to the emergence of Telecommuting (TT) in the middle of the last century, but nowadays only the 13.2% of Spanish companies promote it. The cultural and social differences, added to the difficulties to standardize the available information, make it a challenge to unify criteria for its development. The aim of this bibliographic review is to show the global framework of TT in Spain, the risk factors, impact, benefits and drawbacks, detailing the conditions and occupational safety measures that should accompany the process. In order to obtain the articles, a bibliographic research was realized in the principal biomedical databases. It has been evidenced that some beneficial effects would be the high level of autonomy, higher labor satisfaction, better relationship with the supervisor, decreasing of work dropout rate and family conflict. Other publications indicate that strengthening the personal resources, improve the commitment and efficiency of workers. It should be emphasized that the low existence of specific DeCs-MeSH descriptors for TT included in the bibliographical databases using these thesauros as search engine, Medline, Cochrane Library and IBECS, which makes very difficult the recovery of information. The general lack of knowledge about this type of work, the organizational culture, the control and labour supervision system based on mistrust, do not facilitate the implementation of the TT in Spain at the same place as other neighboring countries such as UK, Germany and France impose, this is why it becomes necessary a change of collective mentality to integrate the TT as an alternative employment within the society in which we live.

Keywords : Teleworking; TT; INFORMATION technology and communications; TICs.

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