By L. Bailyn
Communications of the ACM,
April 1989,
Vol. 32 No. 4, Pages 460-471
10.1145/63334.63338
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The experience of home-based systems developers is compared with their office-based counterparts in a UK computer firm. The analysis produced two major patterns: the home-based workers find intrinsic value in the job, whereas office-based employees view it more instrumentally and find it interferes with satisfaction on a personal level.
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