Teleworking is not a fad, it is an ongoing trend. The growth is driven by the Internet and personal ownership of PCs. We see telework as being in its adolescence--not yet an accepted adult in the corporate world. 

If you want help with research or with implementing telework, About Us gives you an overview of our basic research, market research for vendors to the home office and studies for the government. Using the insights gained in our research we also help private and public organizations assess and implement telework. 

If you are a researcher designing telework surveys, start by looking at our paper Asking the Right Questions about Telecommuting, then see our Counting the New Mobile Workforce study for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. 

Be sure you also read the Recommendations for the introduction of an ad hoc module on telework in the Labour Force Surveys, which our European Union project team STILE (Statistics Indicators Labour Market eEconomy) just completed. It expands the methods for surveying telework to include working remotely not only at home but at multiple locations. It will also help you understand why counts of teleworkers differ.

"Measuring the Information Society," held September 30 - October 1, 2004 in Brussels, presented the findings of the three-year Statistical Indicators of the Labour Market eEconomy (STILE) project, funded by the European Union. See my presentation, "The Latest Telework: the Latest Figures and what they mean," in which I  compare the latest national labor force data for participating European countries and the U.S.

A newletter summarizing the conference is now available.
 

From time to time we hear about graduate students projects. You may be interested in the issues they are working on.