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Remote work

Remote work (teleworking) is a form of work which is done either partly or entirely at home or at some other location chosen by the employee.

An alternative expression for this is ework, a reference to the wider use of IT and communications technology in work. The expressions ’decentralised’ or ’mobile’ work are also used.

Ework is a chance to improve productivity and the quality of working life, harmonise work with family life, and cope with work better generally. It also allows you to be more flexible as regards where you work and where you live and leads to savings in commuting costs and time.

In Finland people do ework to varying degrees both according to agreed and unofficial arrangements. The trend would appear to be for the working environment to be moving more in the direction of diversified and variable working hours and places of work.


Page last updated: 30.01.2008
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