Kernaspecten van Het Nieuwe Werken en een checklist om deze in kaart te brengen

Abstract

The core aspects of the New Way of Working and a checklist to measure these aspects The core aspects of the New Way of Working and a checklist to measure these aspects According to the New Way of Working, employees perform their work independent of location and time, and are supported by advanced information and communication technology. Despite the importance of recent developments, to date few systematic studies have been carried out on them. To improve the quality of research on this topic, we developed a checklist in order to measure the four core aspects of the New Way of Working (NWW). These aspects are: working at a distance (teleworking), not having a fixed work station at the office, working at flexible times, and using advanced technology. The checklist covers the four core aspects and has to be filled out by individual employees. It provides detailed information about their working situation: their ‘NWW profile’. We used the checklist in two types of organizations, i.e., health care (N = 99) and public service (N = 87), and examined the patterns of interrelations between the various aspects. These analyses revealed five distinct categories of employees. We conclude this article with suggestions for using the checklist in organizational studies on the effects of the New Way of Working.