ABSTRACT
Why is telework on the upswing these days? The increase of information and knowledge work connected with a rapid growth in performance and network capability and an enormous decline in the cost of technology allows for new qualities of telework (e.g. Andriessen and Roe 1994). Globalization, increase of international competition and a consumer-oriented market demand for new flexible forms of organization (modular, distributed, virtual) into which telework as an “any-time-any-place” form of work organization easily can be integrated. New ways of living that result from a dissolution of core family structures, an increase of female employment and an individualization of biographies add topicality to the contract between work, family and leisure, and let the work-family challenge become a relevant field for organizations.
