Proceedings of 8th European Assembly on telework (Telework2001)

48The results from the ECaTT project do not only provide data for home-based teleworking butalso for mobile (tele)working and work performed in Small Office Home Offices (SOHOs).According to these data, almost 3 million home-based teleworkers could be found in the <strong>European</strong>Union in 1999. The vast majority <strong>of</strong> these practice alternating telework, i.e. divide their workingtime between time spent at a workplace in the home and time spent in the central <strong>of</strong>fice. 1.25million employees can be classified as self-employed teleworkers in SOHOs, which constitutes asignificant percentage <strong>of</strong> teleworkers already, and 2.3 million are mobile teleworkers, a form <strong>of</strong>work organisation which is very widespread especially in the Netherlands.Figure 2:Types <strong>of</strong> regular telework as % <strong>of</strong> total labour forceSource: empirica ECaTT 1999As Table 1 shows only a small percentage <strong>of</strong> all teleworkers are working at home permanently.Most spend the larger share <strong>of</strong> their working time at a central <strong>of</strong>fice.