Abstract
It was in the mid-1990s that the words "telework" and "SOHO" became the vogue and their effectiveness and potential came under review worldwide. Since then telework or SOHO has been offering significant benefits to employers, employees, self employed individuals and entrepreneurs, and giving local economy advantage in developing. In Japan, to act as a vehicle for promoting broad-ranging research in the telework field, for assessing telework program effectiveness and proposing best practice, Japan Telework Society was established in 1999 and has been supporting research activities on telework for the past decade. In this study, for figuring out the trend in studies on telework or SOHO promoted by the society since its establishment, articles which have been published in its academic journal are analyzed using tools for the text mining and the multivariable analysis. Further based on the results of the analysis of those articles the future aspects of telework or SOHO are presumed.
