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OFFICEFREE

office-free: translation

(AW.fis-free)
adj.
Describes employees whose jobs do not require them to work inside an office.
Example Citation:
"Computer experts and insurance analysts say that severe cost pressures are prompting many companies and industries in the New York region and around the nation to move faster at spinning out their employees as high-tech road warriors. Most notably I.B.M., is about to start an entirelyoffice-freesales force in New Jersey."
— Kirk Johnson, "New Breed of High-Tech Nomads; Mobile Computer-Carrying Workers Transform Companies,"The New York Times, February 8, 1994
Earliest Citation:
The cost of other mobile office gear — portable fax machines cost $ 600 to $ 2,000 and laptop computers that can be plugged into a car battery via the cigarette lighter can cost up to $ 2,500 — makes price another barrier to doing businessoffice-free.
— Julie Bennett, "Highly mobile business people hitting road with offices in tow,"Crain's Chicago Business, May 11, 1992
Related Words:
digital nomad
flexecutive
flexplace
hot desk
hotelling
modem cowboy/cowgirl
office
telework
teleworkaholic syndrome
touchdown center
workshifting
Categories:
Corporate Culture
Employees

  1. officefree—о способе организации работы когда сотрудник не должен приходить в офис или когда офис как таковой вообще отсутствует...Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь
  2. officefree—прил. о способе организации работы когда сотрудник не должен приходить в офис или когда офис как таковой вообще отсутствует...Англо-русский словарь общей лексики