Stamper suggests that we need to examine those aspects in order to understand cultural implications of a specific information system in an organization. This temporal research shares the aim to understand how information systems affect culture, that is, the way we live, more specifically the way we work in organizations. There is little research which directly investigates the effects of information technology on temporal aspects of organizations. Failla and Bagnara focus on the relationship between time in decision making and information technology. These changes are not limited to decision-making processes.
Information technology eliminates rigidity in work rhythms, giving flexibility.
The organization of work is increasingly becoming less rigid in terms of time-patterns. This is especially true in the case of professional work performed in offices with information technology support. The applications of information technologies to knowledge-based activities generates work methods that cut across the 'traditional' sequence of events, changing the duration customarily regarded as 'appropriate'. The effect of these changes is to disrupt the traditional work rhythms. The impacts of information technology on time assume different patterns depending on the stage in the development of information technology as applied to the automation of routine activities, decision support technologies, and virtual reality technologies.