eWORK 2000 - European Telework Week

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New Ways to Work 2000European TeleworkJacques Simonet, the recently elected Minister-President of the Brussels regional government, was the guest ofhonour at the Belgian Teleworking Association annual reception, held this year on Thursday November 4th.The event took place at the Fondation pour l'Architecture in central Brussels, where an exhibition of office lifeand design in the twentieth century was on display. The exhibition, which included photographs, architecturalmodels, and collections of erstwhile everyday items such as business embossing stamps and calculatingmachines, demonstrated just how much the world of work has changed in the past hundred years. Theexhibition also suggested that ways of working and work environments in the coming years may be differentagain, a point picked up by the prime minister in his speech. Telework offered the prospect of radical changesin work and social life, he said: governments needed to engage in the issue.A day earlier, on Wednesday November 3rd at 7pm, the BTA and the Fondation pour l’Architecture hadjointly organised a seminar on the theme The Office of the Future. This took place at the Hotel EuropaInternational in Brussels, and included a presentation by Henri van der Vaeren, marketing director ofBelgacom corporate customers division.GermanyEuropean Telework Week saw considerable activity in Germany, with both on-line ‘virtual’ and actual eventstaking place during the week.Telework dayschool, StuttgartThe best attended and perhaps most productive teleworking event to take place in Germany was theAnwendertag Telearbeit in Stuttgart on Monday November 8th which attracted around 200 people for aseries of lectures and workshops designed for telework practitioners. The event was held in the Haus derWirtschaft (house of economy) in the city.The conference was organised by the trade union linked Forum Soziale Technikgestaltung and DeutscheTelekom in Stuttgart as part of the Anwenderplattform Telearbeit (www.anwenderplattform-telearbeit.de), aproject co-promoted by the ministry of economy of the state of Baden-Württemberg. The local press waspresent and the regional television service also showed up to record the event. The event also wassimultaneously broadcast via videoconferencing to two telecentre in Baden-Württemberg.Telework forum during the A+A99 congress and exhibition, DüsseldorfA telework forum, with lectures and displays, was staged in Düsseldorf during the A+A 99 congress onindustrial safety and industrial medicine.The German foundation ISG (Stiftung zur Förderung der innovativen Systemergonomie und Gesundheit imBüro) arranged an exhibition stand of about 60 square metres in Hall 6 of the Düsseldorf exhibition centre, inconjunction with other partner organisations. Parallel to this, a series of lectures about different aspects ofnew methods of work were held, by Fraunhofer Institut, Verband Telearbeit Deutschland, the German ETDcoordinator, Universität Bremen and others.Telework workshop at the University of Kassel.Three workshops were held at the University of Kassel on November 4th, between 4.30pm and 7.30pm. Theaim was to raise awareness for small and medium-sized enterprises on the subjects of telework, telecooperationand virtual corporations/virtual structures within companies. The event, part of an ADAPT project, wasorganized by Dr. Ulrich Schneider, head of the faculty for regional policy and work research at the University- 156 -
New Ways to Work 2000European Teleworkof Kassel. Speakers at the workshops included a number of teleworking experts, including Dr. Trümper ofREFA-International Darmstadt, Sieglinde Reis of the German Teleworkers Association Verband TelearbeitDeutschland and Stefan Kreher of the Institute for Work Research in Kassel.On-line question and answer session, telecentre project TelWeb.Telework consultancy TA Telearbeit GmbH, well known in Germany for its expertise in relation to newmethods of work, organised an on-line discussion during European Telework Week about the TELWEBproject, an ADAPT project.On-line Internet forum about telework, organised by the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (Institute forGerman Economy), Köln.This initiative was held on Tuesday November 2 nd between 10am and 11am, and was organised by theInstitute for German Economy, which is also managing the EU-funded ADAPT Teleskop project(www.teleskop.de). A panel of specialists were available on-line to deal with the benefits, difficulties andtraining needs for teleworkers. The discussion took place using Internet chat facilities.On-line question and answer session, run by the Online Telework Forum OnForTeThis on-line question and answer session took place from 9am-4pm from Tuesday November 2 nd until FridayNovember 5 th and was organised by the Online Forum Telearbeit (OnForTe). OnForTe is a project fundedjointly by the German Ministry of Economy, Deutsche Telekom and three national trade unions. The projectbegan in 1997 and will continue until the end of 2002. It offers advice to employees on telework-related issuesvia the Internet (www.onforte.de) and through a telephone hotline.NorwayNordic Round Table Meeting on Telework and New Ways of Organising WorkA meeting of the Nordic Round Table on Telework and New Ways of Organising Work Norway was held inOslo in advance of European Telework Week on October 29. The meeting discussed the factors behind thehigh take-up of telework in the Nordic countries (as revealed in the EcaTT project) and provided anopportunity to share information about on-going work and to draft plans for future co-operation. Apresentation by Walter Paavonen addressed possible new action lines within the Information SocietyTechnologies (IST) EU programme.The Nordic Round Table on Teleworking was established in 1993-94 as an informal network of researchersinterested in teleworking and the ongoing change of working life. The purpose of the network is to exchangeand disseminate information and experiences, to provide a common Nordic platform of knowledge andresources to players who act in order to improve the quality of working life, and to support the transition intothe Information Society The following members attended the Oslo meeting: John Wille Bakke (TelenorResearch, Norway), Tom Julsrud (Telenor Research, Norway), Louise Thomasen (Danish TechnologicalInstitute), Mats-G Engström (Stockholm University), Walter Paavonen (Paavonen Consulting AB, Sweden),Tiina Hanhike (University of Tampere, Finland) and Juhani Pekkola (Ministry of Labour, Finland).- 157 -
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