Zion Market Research reports that the global smart home market was expected to grow to more than $53 billion in 2022, from $24 billion 6 years ago. Active noise cancellation, a high-quality ...microphone, strong battery life, and multipoint Bluetooth pairing are all suggested features for optimum use. LINKS TO THE SOURCES Family Handyman: "What Is a Smart Home and Why Should I Want One?" familyhandyman.com/article/what-is-a-smart-home Zion Market Research: Smart Home Market Size & Share Will Hit $53.45 Billion by 2022 globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/04/12/ 959610/0/en/Smart-Home-Market-SizeShare-will-hit-53-45-Billion-by-2022.html ComfyLiving.net: "30 Smart Home Statistics for All High-Tech Enthusiasts" comfyliving.net/smart-home-statistics Higher Ed Geek: "Why Smartwatches Are Better Than Smartphones" higheredgeek.com/blog/why-smartwatchesare-better-than-smartphones CNET: "All the Best Headphones for Working at Home in 2022" cnet.com/tech/mobile/bestheadphones-for-work-at-home MUO: "9 Types of Smart Home Devices and What They Do" makeuseof.com/types-of-smart-home-devices
Survey researchers commonly use RDD (random digit dialing) samples that are purged of listed business telephone numbers to increase interviewer productivity by removing numbers that are assumed to be ...ineligible for household surveys. This study investigates this practice and finds an unintended consequence: an increase in household noncoverage. The data come from national RDD surveys using samples that were not purged of listed business numbers. Phone numbers were flagged as listed businesses or not and respondents were asked about how their phone lines are used. Five percent of respondents were interviewed on lines classified as business numbers that normally would have been purged from the sample. But were these valid household interviews or should they have been excluded? The data show that these are, in fact, primarily households. Ninety-four percent of these numbers rang at residences. Moreover, these phone numbers are used as household rather than business-only lines. Ninety-three percent said any adult in the household can answer the phone line in question. A more important finding is that business-line purging increases noncoverage. Sixty-five percent of those contacted on numbers that normally would have been purged from the sample said they had no other phone lines in the household—a noncoverage rate of 3.6 percentage points had these numbers been excluded from the sample. The study concludes with an examination of the characteristics of those interviewed on presumed business numbers, and considers the cost/benefit implications of including these numbers in the sample.
If we define the deterrence benefits from contract enforcement to be avoided harms net of avoidance costs, we should expect contracting parties to choose the dispute resolution forum that provides ...the greatest difference between deterrence benefits and dispute resolution costs. We apply this framework to franchise contracts and conduct an empirical analysis of the determinants of arbitration agreements among franchising parties. Although it is obvious that contracting parties have an incentive to choose arbitration to reduce dispute resolution costs, there have been no studies of the importance of deterrence concerns. We examine the deterrence hypothesis and find a great deal of support for it. Our results suggest that deterrence factors outweigh litigation costs in the design of dispute resolution agreements. We find that the probability of arbitration is significantly higher when the parties rely on implicit contract terms for governance and compliance with those terms is difficult to ensure.
Understanding the similarities and differences between the research priorities of academics and those of practitioners may create opportunities for mutually beneficial collaboration. We used a ...three-phase process to tap industry forward thinkers to identify 40 research topics of import to practitioners in the financial services industry. These topics were refined and validated, leaving 15 areas where research needs are a top priority. We mapped these areas against two published academic research agendas to identify areas of convergence and divergence. Our findings suggest that more than half of academic research falls into areas deemed important by practitioners in this industry. We pinpoint four areas particularly vital to practitioners where little academic research exists. We discuss tailored approaches for developing collaborative research for high-convergence areas versus for low-convergence areas.
Although the increased internationalization of business has brought greater scholarly attention to the issue of adjustment to overseas assignments, comparatively little research activity has been ...paid to the topic of adjustment back to the home country and home office-repatriation adjustment. In this article we argue that repatriation adjustment is sufficiently different from other forms of work adjustment (e.g., domestic relocation and expatriate assignments) to warrant separate theoretical and empirical investigation. To facilitate this, we propose an initial theoretical framework and set of derived propositions to guide and spark future research on this topic.
Work Well from Home Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury
2005, 2009, 2005-12-31, 2009-01-01
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Filled with help on making working from home work for you, this book covers a range of essential issues including setting up your office, working as part of a virtual team, managing professional ...relationships, and dealing with feelings of isolation.
Telework is a rapidly emerging reality in the workplace. This study explores the influence of mobile telework on family life as reported by teleworkers in a large national corporation (n = 157). In ...addition, this group is compared to an equivalent group of office workers (n = 89) from the same corporation. Mobile teleworkers reported much greater work flexibility. Some reported that their families thrived because of this flexibility. Others reported that their families struggled because workplace and schedule flexibility blurred the boundaries between work and family life. Suggestions are given for how family life educators might help mobile teleworkers ease the transition from traditional work to the virtual office.
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