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

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home in connection with their main job. Working solely at home, however, is
extremely rare. The Lithuanian data on this aspect are lacking due to a technical
error concerning the interviews. In Latvia and Estonia - as in Finland - of
those doing their job at least partly at home, slightly over half 4 were working
in the private sector.
LATVIA ESTONIA FINLAND
Works occasionally or partially at home 28 % 28 % 26 %
Works at home only 1 % 2 % 1 %
Does not work at home at all 68 % 70 % 73 %
Does not know 3 % 0 % 0 %
Total 100 %
(N=904)
100 %
(N=900)
100 %
(N=1297)
Doing paid work at home, whether it is telework by definition or not, has a
strong link with the person's position in the work organisation (cf. Pekkola
2002). In Latvia, over half of those in a managerial post and a little under half
of the specialists did at home some tasks connected with their main job.
Among the other personnel categories, the proportions were noticeably
smaller. The situation in Estonia is otherwise the same, but as many as twothirds
of the managers did work at home in connection with their principal job.
Those in the upper ranks of the personnel hierarchy have more autonomy in
choosing the place and time of doing their tasks than other workers have. The
work of managers and specialists is often of such a nature that it is possible to
do part of it outside the workplace. On the other hand it is also true, at least to
a certain extent, that tight schedules impose a rather large quantity of work,
and thus overtime. In this case, it remains for the worker to choose exactly
when and where the work is done. It can be assumed that the work carried
home is fairly often the uncompensated type of overtime work. In Latvia for
example, 29 % of those doing their main job partly at home said that they did
overtime without any compensation. Of those Latvians who did not work at
home, 16 % did uncompensated overtime. In all, uncompensated overtime was
done by 19 % of Latvia's working population.
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In Latvia 55 %, in Estonia 57 % and in Finland 54 % of those doing their job at least partly at home
were working in the private sector.