eWORK 2000 - European Telework Week

New Ways to Work 2000European Telework4.4.2.5. In larger businesses telework is almost a daily occurrence, smaller ones are more reluctantMore than 2/3 of the European establishments with more than 500 employees already practice telework in oneform or another. This figure is significantly lower for small businesses. Only 12% of all businesses with lessthan 10 employees have teleworkers.Practice and Interest in Telework (Incl. Supplementary Telework) According to Establishment Size10090© empirica807060%504030201000-9 10-49 50-199 200-499 500 and morepractised alreadyconcrete plans and interestSource: empirica (ECATT 1999), cf. www.ecatt.com4.4.2.6. Telework is a rather young phenomenon in many European countriesA look at the length of telework practice reveals that in most European countries companies have only startedrecently, i.e. some years ago. Germany constitutes a typical example for this. While 29% of Germanbusinesses have been carrying out telework for 5 years or more years, 54% have introduced telework over thelast two years. This is in contrast, for instance, to many of the British and French teleworking schemes whichhave already been set up longer time ago or in Finland where more than 50% of the teleworking schemes aremore than five years old.100Distribution of Establishments According to Years Since the Introduction of Telework© empirica90807060%50403020100Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Italy Netherlands Spain Sweden UK EU10less than 1 year 1-2 years 3-4 years 5-10 years more than 10 years no answer do not knowSource: empirica (ECATT 1999), cf. www.ecatt.com- 33 -