Working Life Barometer in the Baltic Countries 2002 (pdf) - mol.fi

20%
15%
10%
5%
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THE PROPORTIONS OF TELEWORKERS
15%
14%
Question 908: Telework is work which is done away from the actual workplace. The essential characteristics of
teleworking are working arrangements which are independent of time and place. In principle, one can do telework
whenever and wherever one likes. Do you do telework in your main job?
9%
LATVIA LITHUANIA ESTONIA
12%
Men Women All
In Latvia and Estonia, there were no significant differences between men and
women in the prevalence of telework; in Lithuania, the men's proportion was
clearly higher than the women's. In none of the Baltic countries is the doing of
telework age-related, in other words roughly the same proportion of teleworkers
is to be found in each age group. Neither are there any significant differences
between the public and the private sector 2 in the incidence of telework
in any of the Baltic countries under study. In this respect, telework is the least
common in Estonia's public sector, and it is the most widespread in the Latvian
public sector. The noticeable differences between these neighbouring
countries as regards telework among public-sector wage earners is surprising.
In all three Baltic countries, a longer day is worked in the private sector than
in the public sector (see the chapter on Working Hours). This difference in
working hours between the sectors is seen also in the numbers of hours spent
doing telework. In all these countries, more hours of telework are done in the
private than the public sector. Although in Latvia telework is a little more
widespread among public-sector workers than in the private sector, the pri-
2 In Estonia, 9 % of the private-sector and 7 % of the public-sector personnel stated that they did
telework. In Latvia, 14 % in the private and 17 % in the public sector engaged in telework. In
Lithuania, 13 % of the private-sector workers and 11 % in the public sector were involved in it.
9%
7%
8%