eWORK 2000 - European Telework Week

More documents

Recommendations

Info

New Ways to Work 2000European TeleworkUpdated statistics on numbers teleworkingThe following data is taken from the results of the ECaTT project (www.ecatt.com)Statistics on Telework in Germany:• There are 2.1 million teleworkers in Germany (1999): 1.56 million are regular and 570,000 supplementaryteleworkers.• Germany is leading the field in Europe with respect to the absolute number of teleworkers.• 6% of the workforce are teleworking, 4.4% can be regarded as regular teleworkers, 1.6% assupplementary ones. With these figures, Germany is exactly at the European average, significantly behindthe European front-runners like Finland (17%) but ahead of countries like Spain, France and Italy withfigures around 3%.• 30% of the establishments in Germany practise telework. This is below the EU average of 36% and onlyhalf of what can be observed in front-runner countries like Sweden with 62%• As in all other countries, SMEs show rather high levels of reservation when it comes to teleworkingcompared to around 2/3 of the large organisations already practising telework. German government aswell as professional and industry associations and other relevant multipliers are well advised to startactivities to motivate and convince SMEs for/of telework as a new way of work helping them to remain oreven improve their competitiveness.• Telework is a rather young phenomenon in Germany since more than half of the teleworking schemes havebeen set up in the last two years. In countries like France, Sweden and the UK we can observe theopposite.• It is remarkable that approx. 75% of the teleworkers are male, an observation which holds true for allcountries analysed in ECaTT.• The average teleworker in Germany as well as throughout Europe is 39 years old, highly qualified and hasmanagerial responsibility in his/her job.• There exist more self-employed workers among the teleworkers than exist in the overall workforce.• Expansion of existing telework schemes will be one of the most important lines of telework diffusionwhich is likely to heavily contribute to a fast penetration of telework since most of the Germanestablishments already practising telework indicate that they are going to expand it in the future. Germandecision makers familiar with teleworking belong to the group of countries which show the highest levelsof interest in this respect in Europe. Only Denmark and Finland achieve higher figures. It appears as ifthey have now fully embraced the concept of telework and are moving ahead full-force after some initialreservation.• Another 17% of German decision makers in establishments are interested in starting telework as opposedto 59% of the individuals among the workforce. This indicates that there is a gap between possible supplyof and demand for teleworking in Germany where specific measures also from the side of governmentshould be taken to narrow it.NOTE: Such profiles can be developed for each of the 10 member states where the ECATT survey werecarried out plus an overall EU10 profileFor further details cf. www.ecatt.com- 70 -
New Ways to Work 2000European TeleworkKey factors affecting eWork developmentDifferent telework and e-commerce policies have been implemented in Germany at Federal as well as Federalstate (Bundeslaender) level. At Federal level these date back to 1996 when the Federal Ministry for Economicsand Technology together with the Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs started the “TeleworkInitiative of the Federal Government” (“Initiative Telearbeit der Bundesregierung”). The activitiesstarted focussed on awareness raising and included the development, publication and wide distribution of a 60-page brochure on telework (in 1997) and a comprehensive guide to telework implementation (in 1998). TheFederal Ministry of Education and Research published an electronic guideline on telework (“ElektronischerLeitfaden zur Telearbeit”) on the website http://www.iid.de/telearbeit/leitfaden as a further awareness raisingactivity.In 1997 the same ministry together with Deutsche Telekom launched the inititive “Telearbeit im Mittelstand”(Telework in SMEs) trying to motivate SMEs to implement telework supported by some (rather small) publicfunding provided by this initiative for each participating SME with a total budget of 20 million Deutsche Mark(approx. 11 million Euro). Around 500 SMEs received funding and successfully implemented telework in theirorganisations. After the general Federal elections in 1998 the ministry department dealing with this initiativemoved to the federal Ministry for Economics and Technology where it started another telework initiative called“Datensichere Telearbeit in kommunalen Verwaltungen (DATEL)” (Secure Telework in PublicAdministrations). Out of the total of telework proposals submitted by public authorities 50 were selected forfunding and are now implementing their telework concepts. This initiative is part of the “IT-Aktionsprogramm” of the Federal government from September 1999. It is accompanied by a project called“Telejobboerse” which was set up as a telework job and contract exchange which is currently operating withmixed success.The initiatives started at Federal state level (e.g. Bavaria, Northrhine Westphalia, Baden-Wuerttemberg,Rheinland Pfalz, Hessen, Schleswig-Holstein) have been continued. Hardly any new activities have beenstarted. One exception is the “Anwenderplattform Telearbeit” in Baden Wuerttemberg, where industry,ministries and trade unions have come together to start a series of events aimed at the motivation of industryand businesses to become familiar with telework and get some guidance for implementation. The teleworkinitiatives of the Federal ministries and the Federal states are approaching their end and are currently phasingout. No further activities are planned for 2001. It appears as if at all levels governments have come to theconclusion that they have now made sufficient investments for the promotion of telework and that things nowhave to develop and move ahead on their own. What becomes apparent is a shift away from telework toelectronic commerce related initiatives (for further details cf. www.ecatt.com). Details of the Federalgovernment strategy are laid down in the IT Aktionsprogramm which was passed in September 1999. TheFederal states have developed their own programmes and initiatives.For further relevant developments in other areas cf. “Recent relevant technology trends, new services”.- 71 -
Page 1 and 2:
eWORK 2000Status Report onNew Ways
Page 3 and 4:
New Ways to Work 2000European Telew
Page 5 and 6:
Page 7 and 8:
Page 9 and 10:
Page 11 and 12:
Page 13 and 14:
Page 15 and 16:
Page 17 and 18:
Page 19 and 20: New Ways to Work 2000European Telew
Page 69: New Ways to Work 2000European Telew
Page 121 and 122:
Page 123 and 124:
Page 125 and 126:
Page 127 and 128:
Page 129 and 130:
Page 131 and 132:
Page 133 and 134:
Page 135 and 136:
Page 137 and 138:
Page 139 and 140:
Page 141 and 142:
Page 143 and 144:
Page 145 and 146:
Page 147 and 148:
Page 149 and 150:
Page 151 and 152:
Page 153 and 154:
Page 155 and 156:
Page 157 and 158:
Page 159 and 160:
Page 161 and 162:
Page 163 and 164:
Page 165 and 166:
Page 167 and 168:
Page 169 and 170:
Page 171 and 172:
Page 173 and 174:
Page 175 and 176:
Page 177 and 178:
Page 179 and 180:
Page 181 and 182:
Page 183 and 184:
Page 185 and 186:
Page 187 and 188:
Page 189 and 190:
Page 191 and 192:
Page 193 and 194:
Page 195 and 196:
Page 197 and 198:
Page 199 and 200:
Page 201 and 202:
Page 203 and 204:
Page 205 and 206:
Page 207 and 208:
Page 209 and 210:
show all

eWORK 2000 - European Telework Week

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?