eWORK 2000 - European Telework Week

New Ways to Work 2000European TeleworkAmong the first firmly supported work on the question, one can quote three theses resulting from theLaboratory “Collaborative Interaction, Teletraining and Teleactivities” (ICTT) of the Central School of Lyon.• Comtet Isabelle, 1999, Collaborative Systems and professional actors in communication network, p. 389,Thesis in Information and Communication Sciences.• Millet-Fourrier Christelle, 2000, Those involved in the diffusion of teleactivities, p. 373, Thesis inInformation and Communication Sciences.• Montandreau-Cohen Véronique, 1999, The construction of the professional identity of the employedteleworker, Thesis in Occupational Psychology.(one can obtain documents, summaries in English, articles at comtet@ictt.ec-lyon.fr or Fourrier@ictt.eclyon.fror Cohen@ictt.ec-lyon.fr).Other work is in progress at the universities of Paris, Grenoble, Lyon, Bordeaux, and Montpellier.It is noted that the object of study tends at the same time to specialise (e.g. “collaborative work”) and to stretch(e.g. : “distributed social practices” or “virtual communities” on which the Anglo-Saxon research has alreadybeen working for several years).Recent eWork activitiesFrom a publication point of view, the French version of the Teleworking Handbook was published under thetitle “travail et activités à distance” by one of the major publishers “Editions d’Organisation” (www.editionsorganisation.com)and available for the event Telework.com which was held in Paris at the Palais des Congrèsduring Telework Week on November 4 and 5.The book is quite successful as it was already reprinted in April 2000. A follow-on book is under preparationto handle the specific subject of “remote management”. The French adaptation of the Teleworking Handbookwas written with the help of France Telecom and the new book is under preparation with EDF GDF and aconsulting firm called Insep Consulting.Thanks to co-funding from the ETD project the French Teleworking Association (www.aftt.net) didparticipate actively in the creation of the first Telecentres directory in France with the co-operation of Iseresand Anact. The directory is available electronically on the website of the Association and can be obtained inpaper version as well. The study carried out to establish this directly confirms unfortunately that very fewtelecentres are successful in France, mainly because they generally start with public funding and forget overthe years to have a commercial objective in order to survive.a new collective agreement for Telecommunications which was signed on June the 6 th . This is the first nationalagreement which specifically refers to telework and its application covers over 100 000 workers right now.The full text will be made available thru the Euro-telework project on their website and it will also be madeavailable on the AFTT website.Contact:Nicole Turbe-SuetensDistance-Expertnts@.distance-expert.com- 66 -